Woman killed in auto mishap

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, November 14, 2000

MEADVILLE — A Franklin County resident was the victim of aone-vehicle accident on Highway 84 Monday evening.

Debbie Storey Dendy, 39, of Meadville, died around 5 p.m. whenthe truck she was driving left the highway about a mile and a halffrom Meadville, according to Franklin County Coroner PercyPeeler.

“The truck just left the road and wound up in the median,” saidPeeler. “It was just one of those unfortunate things.”

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The cause of the accident is still undetermined, but aninvestigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol continues.

Dendy was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at thescene.

She was a cook at TJ’s Restaurant in Bude. Franklin Funeral Homeis in charge of arrangements.