The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-03-06
Durani Youth Killed Instantly In Head-0n
Collision Friday; Services Sunday
Driver OF Other Cor
Was Reported Under
Influence Of Liquor


P. H. Doc) Winborn, Jr., %, men,
Der of prominent Durant family,
was instantly killed Friday night
about 7:30 o'clock when the jeep
in which he was riding was hit head
on by 1o41 Ford car on highway
81 a mile and half north of Winona.
Young Winborn, a junior in the
School of Business Administration
at the University of Mississippi, was
enroute home to spend the weekend
with his wife, the former Charlotte
Cresswell, and his parents at Dur
ant.
Beckworth Reported Driver
John r. Beckworth, %, reported
driver of the car which killed Win
born, and Otis Eugene Rowland, To-
year-old son of John Rowland, of
Tillatobia in Yalobousha county,
were taken to Winona hospital
where they are reported in a serious
condition. Both suffered severe
wounds about the head and face and
the boy suffered broken left knee.
Sheriff Shed Castle, who investi-
gated the accident Immediately
after it happened stated that the
car driven north by Beckworth ap-
peared to be almost all the way
over the road on Winborn's side.
Sheriff Castle also said Beckworth
appeared to be definitely under the
influence of liquor.
A mixed case of liquor was taken
from the car by the officer.
Funeral Services
Funeral services for Doc were held
Sunday afternoon at the Durant
Presbyterian church at 2:30 o'clock
DR.. G.. T. Gillespie, president of
Belhaven College, and a former
pastor of the Durant church, offic-
lated. He was assisted by DR.. E. R..
Smoot, pastor of the First Method
ist church of Durant. DR.. Gillespie
was pastor of the church about
twenty years ago when Doc, a
small boy, united with the church.
Interment was in Mizpah cemetery
with Southern in charge of arrange
ments.
Surviving are the young widow
and his parents; two brothers, Wick
ham Winborn, of Durant, and Jack
Winborn, assistant coach at Millsaps
College, Jackson.
He was veteran of World War II
having forty-four months in the SER
vice and one year overseas; a mem
Der of the American Legion, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars and Mason.
Out town Friends
Among the out of-town friends at
tending the funeral were: MIR. and
Mrs. Earl Winborn, Baton Rouge;
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Stewart, McComb;
S. N. Boyette, Laurel; Mr.. and Mrs.
Sterling Peoples, Bolton; Mrs. Craig
Conger, Tchula; Mr.. and Mrs. L. 7.
Suber, Kosciusko and Coach Dolby
Bartling, Millsaps College.
Students attending from Ole Miss
were: Van and Joe Stewart; Beaver;
Stribling CHS buddie) Woodward;
Jennings; Mize; Brooks; Bowie; Her
rim; Turner; Moore; King and Cress-
well.
Mrs. Billy Welch, New Orleans;
Mrs. Fred Holderfield, Jackson; Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Stanford, and Mrs.
Cliff MCGOWAN, Jackson; Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Elmore, Koscusko;
MIR. and Mrs. Billy Elmore, Memphis;
Frank Cresswell, father of Mrs. Doc
Winborn, Yazoo City; Mrs. B. w.
Cresswell, West; Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.
Majors, Jackson; Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. Bacon, Jackson; Mr.. and Mrs.
Gobel Mize, Jackson, andMrs. Wilson
Fulton, Miss. College, Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brumby, Good
man; Morris Lewis, Sr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Lerov Paris, E. w. Rainwater, and
Mr.. William Moses, and Mr.. Earl
Fowler, all of Lexington; Dick Var
borough, Columbia; Mr.. and Mrs
John Angle, Mrs. Ina Angle, Mr.
and Mrs. G. w. Drane, Jackson; Mr..
and Mrs. Joel Howell, Jackson; Mr..
and Mrs Buddie Mitchell, Monroe,
Louisiana, and Mr.. and Mrs. II. G
Black, Drew.
Employed BY Rowland
According to State Highway Pa
trolmen Beckworth is kinsman and
lives with and works for John Row
land who now repeatedly operates
Joint on highway 81 at Tillatobia.
John Rowland told State Highway
Patrolmen that Beckworth lived
with him and worked for him. He
said Beckworth left Tillatobia that
afternoon friday about three or
four o'clock and that his son, Otis
Eugene was with him. He said he
did not know where they were go
ing.
It was reported to the Highway |
Patrolmen that the pair had been to
Holmes county, picked up the |
whiskey and were on their return
tr;r ~ Ti1latoloia when the accident |