Woman dies in wreck

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

A 76-year-old Hazlehurst woman died Tuesday afternoon ofinjuries she sustained earlier in the day during an accident inLincoln County, said Coroner Clay McMorris.

Driver Bobbie Dear, of 388 Whitworth St.. Hazlehurst, andpassenger Joy Harris, also of Hazlehurst, were going to see afriend when the accident happened around 1:15 p.m. on Earls Trailabout one mile from Highway 51. Dear was driving a 1995Oldsmobile.

“She just lost control of her vehicle and struck a tree there,”McMorris said.

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Dear was taken to King’s Daughters Medical Center where she waspronounced dead at 4:35 p.m. Tuesday. Harris was transferred to theUniversity Medical Center in Jackson, where she was listed in faircondition Wednesday morning, a UMC spokesperson said.

Community Funeral Services in Brookhaven is in charge ofservices for Dear, McMorris said. Arrangements are incomplete.