CHARLES RAY CHILDERS
1935-1956
Charles Ray Childers, 20, Dayton, Ohio, formerly of White House,
Ky., a companion from Dayton and a teenage hitchhilker were fatally
injured Sunday morning when a auto crashed sideways into a utility
pole about four miles north of Dayton.
Pronounced dead on arrival at Miami Valley hospital were Childers
and Charles William Screws, 30, Dayton, Grover Newman Elliott, 17,
Parrish Alabama, died at 10:00 a.m. Sunday at the hospital.
The state highway patrol said a witness to the mishap told officers
she was traveling south when she saw an auto coming in the opposite
direction at a high rate of speed.
She said the car skidded from the wet road and crashed into the
pole. The woman did not stop because she had children in her auto.
Patrolmen said the impact pushed the pole four feet in the ground
and snapped it about three feet above the top of the car. They
said all three persons were found in the auto.
Childers, who was pinned behind the wheel, is believed to have been
driving. Patrolmen said two wreckers were needed to pull the car
apart to get the driver out.
Childers, son of John and Elise Bolden Childers, was born September
13, 1935.
He had been a resident of Dayton for the past three years where he
was employed by the Sunshine Biscuit Company.
Surviving besides his parents are four brothers, Arthur Childers,
Dawson Springs, Ky., Walter Clyde and Paul Childers, all of
Dayton, Ohio, and five sisters, Pearl, Annette and Belva Jo
Childers, all of White House, Mrs. Evelyn Beckett, Chapville, W.
Va., and Mrs. Lillian Meek, Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services were conducted today at the White House church
with the Rev. Marvin Wells of Garrett, Ky., officiating.
Burial was made in the Osborne Cemetery at White House under the
direction of the Preston Funeral Home.
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
3-21-1956
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