April 30, 2013

Wednesday's Child ~ Anita Claudette Tarver

Anita Claudette Tarver (courtesy of Danny Peavey)

Anita Claudette Tarver was born on December 10, 1936 to the marriage of Claude Lawrence Tarver and Mary Ruth Watson.  She was a sister to Jerry Tarver.

Claudette attended Sicily Island High School where she was a member of the Tiger Cheerleaders. 



Claudette (photograph courtesy of Danny Peavey)

Claudette was one of four teenagers killed when the automobile in which they were riding collided with a train at a crossing two miles south of Wisner, Franklin Parish, Louisiana on April 7, 1955.  Members of the Sicily Island High School senior class served as pallbearers.  They included Walter Knotts, Alton Cooper, Bobby Cupit, Wayne Keenan, Charles Meyers, Willard Posey, Charles Powell, Glenn Seymour, Faye Thurman, James Hinton, George LeFevre and Don Seagers.

Anita Claudette Tarver is buried in the New Pine Hill Cemetery in Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.  Tombstone photograph is courtesy of Karen Klemm Pinckard at FindAGrave.com.


 


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