Raymond N. Cole, 29, Brown Shoe Company employee in this city, met instant death about 2 a.m. Tuesday, October 15, when the car in which he was riding with L.T. Wimberly, a grocery deliveryman for C.T. Baird, failed to make the slight turn in Ward avenue just beyond the Sixteenth street intersection, climbed over the curb, tangled with a power pole guy-wire and slammed against a pole as it changed ends and came to a stop headed toward the city. According to information furnished local police by Wimberly, who was driving his 35-model Chevrolet car, Cole either attemped to jump or was thrown from the car and sustained a cranial fracture when his head struck the curb.
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Funeral services for Cole were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. conducted by the Rev. D.K. Foster at the Baptist church in this city. Interment was in Maple Cemetery, LaForge service.
The deceased young man, who was born near Caruthersville, July 19, 1917, was the son of the late R.C. and Rexie Cole and he had lived here practically all his life, excepting for time served in the infantry and the air corps during the late war. He served in the Italian campaign and was wounded there and he received a number of awards attesting his courage and devotion to duty. He was a member of the Legion Post here since his return.
Married to Miss Alma Wyatt on August 21, 1937, he is survived by her and a small son and daughter, Raymond Jr. and Sue Carol Cole, also by his step-mother, Mrs. Lavina Cole; two brothers, Vernie and Billie Ray; two sisters, Shirley and Judy; and one step-sister, Louise Conley. Two uncles and four aunts also survived.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, October 18, 1946
PFC U.S. Army
World War II
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states interment was in Little Prairie Cemetery, but headstone was found in Maple
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Funeral services for Cole were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. conducted by the Rev. D.K. Foster at the Baptist church in this city. Interment was in Maple Cemetery, LaForge service.
The deceased young man, who was born near Caruthersville, July 19, 1917, was the son of the late R.C. and Rexie Cole and he had lived here practically all his life, excepting for time served in the infantry and the air corps during the late war. He served in the Italian campaign and was wounded there and he received a number of awards attesting his courage and devotion to duty. He was a member of the Legion Post here since his return.
Married to Miss Alma Wyatt on August 21, 1937, he is survived by her and a small son and daughter, Raymond Jr. and Sue Carol Cole, also by his step-mother, Mrs. Lavina Cole; two brothers, Vernie and Billie Ray; two sisters, Shirley and Judy; and one step-sister, Louise Conley. Two uncles and four aunts also survived.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, October 18, 1946
PFC U.S. Army
World War II
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states interment was in Little Prairie Cemetery, but headstone was found in Maple
Raymond N. Cole, 29, Brown Shoe Company employee in this city, met instant death about 2 a.m. Tuesday, October 15, when the car in which he was riding with L.T. Wimberly, a grocery deliveryman for C.T. Baird, failed to make the slight turn in Ward avenue just beyond the Sixteenth street intersection, climbed over the curb, tangled with a power pole guy-wire and slammed against a pole as it changed ends and came to a stop headed toward the city. According to information furnished local police by Wimberly, who was driving his 35-model Chevrolet car, Cole either attemped to jump or was thrown from the car and sustained a cranial fracture when his head struck the curb.
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Funeral services for Cole were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. conducted by the Rev. D.K. Foster at the Baptist church in this city. Interment was in Maple Cemetery, LaForge service.
The deceased young man, who was born near Caruthersville, July 19, 1917, was the son of the late R.C. and Rexie Cole and he had lived here practically all his life, excepting for time served in the infantry and the air corps during the late war. He served in the Italian campaign and was wounded there and he received a number of awards attesting his courage and devotion to duty. He was a member of the Legion Post here since his return.
Married to Miss Alma Wyatt on August 21, 1937, he is survived by her and a small son and daughter, Raymond Jr. and Sue Carol Cole, also by his step-mother, Mrs. Lavina Cole; two brothers, Vernie and Billie Ray; two sisters, Shirley and Judy; and one step-sister, Louise Conley. Two uncles and four aunts also survived.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, October 18, 1946
PFC U.S. Army
World War II
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states interment was in Little Prairie Cemetery, but headstone was found in Maple
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Funeral services for Cole were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. conducted by the Rev. D.K. Foster at the Baptist church in this city. Interment was in Maple Cemetery, LaForge service.
The deceased young man, who was born near Caruthersville, July 19, 1917, was the son of the late R.C. and Rexie Cole and he had lived here practically all his life, excepting for time served in the infantry and the air corps during the late war. He served in the Italian campaign and was wounded there and he received a number of awards attesting his courage and devotion to duty. He was a member of the Legion Post here since his return.
Married to Miss Alma Wyatt on August 21, 1937, he is survived by her and a small son and daughter, Raymond Jr. and Sue Carol Cole, also by his step-mother, Mrs. Lavina Cole; two brothers, Vernie and Billie Ray; two sisters, Shirley and Judy; and one step-sister, Louise Conley. Two uncles and four aunts also survived.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, October 18, 1946
PFC U.S. Army
World War II
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states interment was in Little Prairie Cemetery, but headstone was found in Maple
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