DALLAS - Peter John Layden, Sr., 53, of 516 East Sixth St., was killed Saturday night, July 31, when his car skidded on loose gravel and crashed into a tree at Mockingbird Lane and Lawther Dr. His companion, Isaac Lathan, 49, of 4703 1/2 Columbia, is reported to have sustained minor injuries, for which he was treated at the Parkland Hospital, but Mr. Layden was dead on arrival at the hospital.

Requiem

Funeral services, with Requiem Mass, were held the following Tuesday in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Burial took place in Calvary Cemetery. Dr. G.A. Schenewerk, Edward Maher, Mott Larkin, James O'Connor, Vincent Layden and Arthur Campbell served as pallbearers.

Mr. Layden, member of a prominent pioneer Texas family was born in Kaufman Co. He attended the University of Dallas, conducted by the Vincentian Fathers; and then as a 135-pound end he sparked his team to victories over larger Southwest Conference teams.

Coach at Forney

After college he returned to the farm at Forney. In the early 1920s, the Forney school found itself without a football coach and Layden took on the coaching chores. His small teams toppled high school teams from other cities, including the Oak Cliff High School eleven and a Shreveport, La., high school team that had won the Louisiana State championship.

Twenty years ago Mr. Layden came from Forney to Dallas to work in the Ford plant where he remained until his sudden death.

Survivors include his widow; three sons, Peter John Layden, Jr. of Edna, former University of Texas football and baseball star, now playing centerfield for the San Antonio Missions in the Texas League; Robert Lawrence and Joseph B. Layden, both of Dallas; a granddaughter; four brothers, Martin Layden and Dennis Layden, both of Forney; Michael Layden, of Dallas, and Thomas Layden, of Houston, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Corbit and Mary Layden, both of Forney.

Note: According to the Texas Death Index, Peter John Layden Sr. died on July 31, 1948 in Dallas County.