WILLIAM RUSSELL WOODS

Truck Accident Fatal
To Local Man

Wm. Russell Woods
World War II Veteran 
Dies September 27

Mr. William Russell Woods, 24, of East Point, son of Mr. John E.
Woods and the late Gertrude Fraley Woods, was fatally injured
Saturday afternoon, September 27, in a truck accident on Route 460
near Staffordsville.

It is reported that the truck in which he was hauling gravel for
the Midway Service Company overturned and pinned him underneath
after it was crowded off the road by another truck.

He was a World War II veteran having entered the U.S. Army in May
1943.  He received his discharge in November 1945 after
participating in several campaigns in the European Theater.

He is survived by his wife, Geneva May Blevins, and two small
children, his father, John E. Woods, city, one brother, Charles,
city, and one sister, Mrs. Loretta Spears, city.

Funeral services were conducted by Revs. Dan Fraley and Dewey
Fraley at the home of his father in King Addition, Tuesday at 2;00
pm.

Burial was in the O'Bryan family cemetery near Staffordsville.

Paintsville Herald
Thursday
October 2, 1947
      

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