By John Dupont, Editor

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Leon Dixon, whose life transitioned from sharecropper to World War II soldier and later a successful businessman, died today after a brief illness.

Dixon was 104. He was one of the state’s oldest living World War II veterans at the time of his death.  

Dixon spent his life defying odds.

OSCAR – Louisiana State Police Troop A is investigating the cause of a two-vehicle crash that claimed two lives today along a stretch of U.S. 190 in Pointe Coupee Parish.

The crash, which occurred east of La. 978 took the lives of Barbara Dobard Rigby, 69, and 98-year-old Maynette Dobard, both of Alexandria, according to Trooper Christian Reed, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police.