Body Found in Sabine River Identified as Missing Kilgore Man

GREGG COUNTY — A body found Wednesday in the Sabine River has been identified as a missing Kilgore man. According to our news partner KETK, family members have confirmed that the body recovered Wednesday is Lloyd Keith Thrasher. He’d been reported missing since Sunday. Investigators found his car on FM 2087, near Old Kilgore Highway. Family members say he suffered from dementia. Daughter-in-law, Lauren Thrasher, posted her thanks to the Harleton Fire Department Search and Rescue K-9 team, which assisted in the search for Thrasher, on the team’s Facebook page. “We are so very thankful to your team!!! Thank you for helping to find my father in law,” she wrote.

The team posted that it had “assisted in a search today” and wished “it had a better ending.” Thrasher posted on her own Facebook page that the body found “is my father in law.”