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Don Durham '57 May 11, 2011 12:00 AM
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Friday evening, February 23, 1979
ROANOKE - Southlake High School Principal Don Taylor Durham, 44, was killed in a auto-truck head-on collision at 12:50 this morning on Texas 114 one mile west of Roanoke in Denton County.
Durham was pronounced dead at the scene by a Denton justice of the peace, said Phillip Herbst, a Department of Public Safety police communications operator.
Durham was returning to Southlake after attending a basketball officials banquet held in Gainesville.
Durham was driving a late model automobile in the eastbound lane of Texas 114 and apparently crossed the center stripe into the path of a westbound tractor-trailer, Herbst said.
Charles Miller of Mesquite, driver of the truck, was not injured in the collision.
Durham had lived in Southlake 15 years. He first was principal of Carroll Elementary School here, then became high school principal in 1970.
He still was girl's basketball and track coach.
He previously had been girl's basketball coach in Slidell, where he won a state championship. He also had won a state championship in Southlake.
Carroll Independent School District classes have been canceled for today, John Lowrey, high school basketball coach, said.
Funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Colleyville Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife, Martha; a son, Robby, and a daughter, Debbie.
ROANOKE - Southlake High School Principal Don Taylor Durham, 44, was killed in a auto-truck head-on collision at 12:50 this morning on Texas 114 one mile west of Roanoke in Denton County.
Durham was pronounced dead at the scene by a Denton justice of the peace, said Phillip Herbst, a Department of Public Safety police communications operator.
Durham was returning to Southlake after attending a basketball officials banquet held in Gainesville.
Durham was driving a late model automobile in the eastbound lane of Texas 114 and apparently crossed the center stripe into the path of a westbound tractor-trailer, Herbst said.
Charles Miller of Mesquite, driver of the truck, was not injured in the collision.
Durham had lived in Southlake 15 years. He first was principal of Carroll Elementary School here, then became high school principal in 1970.
He still was girl's basketball and track coach.
He previously had been girl's basketball coach in Slidell, where he won a state championship. He also had won a state championship in Southlake.
Carroll Independent School District classes have been canceled for today, John Lowrey, high school basketball coach, said.
Funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Colleyville Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife, Martha; a son, Robby, and a daughter, Debbie.
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