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Funeral services have been planned for a local man who was killed last week in an accident in West Texas.
News outlets in Midland are reporting that 33-year-old Eric Wayne Font, who apparently had addresses in both Jasper and Silsbee, was struck and killed by a vehicle on Tuesday, August 31st.
According to Midland Police, it happened at about 9:30 that night as Font was walking along a service road of Interstate 20 and was hit by a pickup truck.
According to Adams E E Stringer Funeral Home in Kirbyville, graveside service will be held on Saturday afternoon in the Beulah Springs Community between Jasper and Kirbyville.
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