Woman dies in single-vehicle crash

Published 9:26 pm Monday, June 19, 2017

A 58-year-old Selma woman died Sunday night in a single-vehicle accident.

According to Senior Trooper Reginal King with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Deborah Warr Monk was killed when the 2008 Lexus RX 350 she was driving left the roadway. King said Monk’s car struck several trees. The accident happened around 6:15 p.m.

Monk, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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The accident happened on Dallas County Road 189 around eight miles north of Orrville.

According to King, this is the sixth deadly traffic accident in Dallas County for 2017.

No more information was made available Monday. Alabama State Troopers are continuing to investigate the accident.

She was preceded in death by her father, Charlie Ross Warr; grandmother, Ruth Virginia Warr; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Hopkins.

She is survived by her husband, William Bryan Monk Sr.; mother, Betty Warr; son, William Bryan (DeDe) Monk Jr.; daughter, Lauren Monk; granddaughter, Leah Monk; sister, Dianne (Mark) Bond; father-in-law, Thomas Mason Monk Sr.; aunts, Laura Allen and Myrtle Lovelady; niece, Mary Carson Bond; and nephew, William Bond.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Lawrence Brown-Service Funeral Home with Dr. Jerry Light officiating. Interment will follow in New Live Oak Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1–2 p.m. at the funeral home.