FLOYD THOMAS JACKSON
1936-1954
Funeral services were held here at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 12, 1954
for Floyd Thomas Jackson, 17, Paintsville High School senior, who was
killed in an automobile accident in Ashtabula, Ohio on June 16, 1954.
He was the son of Floyd and Fronia Blanton Jackson and had spent his
entire life in Paintsville where he attended school, and in his
younger years was a newsboy for the Herald.
He was born October 5, 1936.
The youth was driving a convertible, which overturned in a ditch;
injuring two passengers and throwing two others clear of the car. He
had been visiting a sister, Mrs. James Long, and he died in Ashtabula
General Hospital nearly six hours after his 1948 model car went out
of control. He received a severely crushed chest and other internal
injuries. Alice Long, 15, was in good condition at the hospital with
face lacerations and a concussion. Treated and released was Henry
Yarman, 19, owner of the auto. Thrown out of the car were Vicky Long,
3, and Anthony Clause, 16. Patrol officers said Jackson was driving
west apparently at a high rate of speed when he applied his brakes,
throwing the car out of control and causing it to flip over. The
occupants, except the two thrown clear, were trapped beneath the
vehicle, which was badly damaged, officers said. Young Jackson is
survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jackson, two brothers,
Logan Jackson and John Jackson, Paintsville, and three sisters, Mrs.
Jane Long and Mrs. Charles Montgomery, Ashtabula, Ohio and Mrs.
Joseph Pavalina, Wheeling, W. Va.
Funeral services were held at the Freewill Baptist Church by Rev.
Claude Preston.
Burial was made in the Paintsville Cemetery under the direction of
the Jones and Preston Funeral Home.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
WEDNESDAY
JUNE 23 1954
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