Wreck Kills Two Sunday
Two persons were burned to death early Sunday morning when the pickup truck they were in overturned and burned twelve miles from Georgetown.
The dead are Elmer Woodrow Moore, 22, sailor of the US Navy and Stacy Dwight Moore, 37, automobile mechanic of Georgetown.
A coroner's jury empaneled by Magistrate H. S. Higgins, brought in a verdict of accidental death.
According to Sheriff Garris Cribb and State Highway Patrolman J. C. Dozier, the investigating officers, Stacy Moore, apparently was the driver of the truck. It is thought that he ran off the road in a heavy fog and lost control of the vehicle.
Funeral services for Stacy Moore were conducted from the graveside in the Hucksfield Cemetery, in the Carver's Bay section of this county, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon by the Rev. H. L. Carter, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Born October 19, 1908, he was a son of Mrs. Tinnie Moore and the late Billy Moore. He is alsw survived by his widow, the former Miss Mattie Greer and three small children, Billy, Jackie and Roulnet Moore, all of Georgetown; two brothers Glennie Moore and Brink Moore, of Hemingway and three sisters; Mrs. Bernice Carter and Mrs. Margaret Cannon of Hemingway, and Mrs. Viola Cribb of Georgetown.
Funeral services for Elmer Woodrow Moore were conducted Tuesday morning at 10:30 from Rose Hill Baptist Church by the Rev. H. L. Carter. Burial was in the churchyard.
Members of the Coast Guard Base at Bucksport served as pallbearers. He served in the Navy for three years, most of which he was in the Pacific. He had returned only six weeks ago to the States.
He was born in Georgetown July 29, 1923, a son of the late George Moore and Mrs. Nettie Rowe Moore Goings of Georgetown.
Surviving are his mother; a brother Ozzie Moore of near Hemingway; and a half sister Lessie Belle Goings of Georgetown.
Wreck Kills Two Sunday
Two persons were burned to death early Sunday morning when the pickup truck they were in overturned and burned twelve miles from Georgetown.
The dead are Elmer Woodrow Moore, 22, sailor of the US Navy and Stacy Dwight Moore, 37, automobile mechanic of Georgetown.
A coroner's jury empaneled by Magistrate H. S. Higgins, brought in a verdict of accidental death.
According to Sheriff Garris Cribb and State Highway Patrolman J. C. Dozier, the investigating officers, Stacy Moore, apparently was the driver of the truck. It is thought that he ran off the road in a heavy fog and lost control of the vehicle.
Funeral services for Stacy Moore were conducted from the graveside in the Hucksfield Cemetery, in the Carver's Bay section of this county, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon by the Rev. H. L. Carter, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Born October 19, 1908, he was a son of Mrs. Tinnie Moore and the late Billy Moore. He is alsw survived by his widow, the former Miss Mattie Greer and three small children, Billy, Jackie and Roulnet Moore, all of Georgetown; two brothers Glennie Moore and Brink Moore, of Hemingway and three sisters; Mrs. Bernice Carter and Mrs. Margaret Cannon of Hemingway, and Mrs. Viola Cribb of Georgetown.
Funeral services for Elmer Woodrow Moore were conducted Tuesday morning at 10:30 from Rose Hill Baptist Church by the Rev. H. L. Carter. Burial was in the churchyard.
Members of the Coast Guard Base at Bucksport served as pallbearers. He served in the Navy for three years, most of which he was in the Pacific. He had returned only six weeks ago to the States.
He was born in Georgetown July 29, 1923, a son of the late George Moore and Mrs. Nettie Rowe Moore Goings of Georgetown.
Surviving are his mother; a brother Ozzie Moore of near Hemingway; and a half sister Lessie Belle Goings of Georgetown.
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