===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [KYTAYLOR] Millard Loss Bowles Obituary - 1956 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ddicken77 Surnames: Bowles Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.taylor/10592/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The News-Journal, June 28, 1956 Millard Bowles, 22, Killed In Car-Truck Wreck Wednesday One person was killed and two others were hospitalized last Wednesday afternoon when a car, driven by Cosby Jeffries, collided with a truck driven by Gowdy Maupin. Millard Loss Bowles, 22, of the Palestine community, suffered a fractured skull. He died at the Rosary Hospital about 20 minutes after the accident. Two of the three other persons in the car were hospitalized. The driver of the truck escaped with minor injuries. The accident occurred at 3 p.m. about one half mile southeast of town on the Smith's Ridge Road, just off the Elkhorn Road. Jeffries told authorities that he applied his brakes on wet pavement on a curve and the car skidded into the side of the pickup truck driven by Maupin. Both vehicles were reported a total loss. Charles Fawcett, 23, Taylor County, who suffered cuts and two broken ribs, and Jeffries, who received shoulder injuries, were hospitalized. A third passenger, Kenneth Agee, 23, also of Taylor County, was not injured. Both Fawcett and ! Jeffries have been released from the hospital and are reported to be well recovered from their injuries. Bowles, who was born May 23, 1934, in Taylor County, is survived by his mother, Stella Bowles, Route 2; and his grandfather, John Bowles, Route 2. He was a member of the Palestine Baptist Church. Funeral services were held Friday, June 22 at 2 p.m. from the Palestine Baptist Church with the Rev. Marshall Black in charge, assisted by Mr. J. K. Powell. Burial was in the church cemetery. The pallbearers were Louis Garnett, Robbie Davis, Donald Colvin, David Smith, James Kessler, and George Mitchell. The honorary bearers were Bobby Holt, Gowdy Maupin, Owsley Smith, Bobby Fawcett, Larry Garnett, Jerry Pike, Harold Smith, Hollis Hancock, Earl Byron Smith, Albert Wise, and Edwin Smith. Kentucky Vital Records Index, rootsweb BOWLER, MILLARD L; 23 May 1934; TAYLOR; mother BOWLER STELLA; Volume 056, Certificate 27674 Kentucky Death Records Index, rootsweb BOWLES, MILLARD L; age 22; death place TAYLOR; residence TAYLOR; death date 20 Jun 1956; Volume 027, Certificate 13104 Taylor County, Kentucky Cemeteries Millard L. Bowles 23 May 1934 - 20 Jun 1956 Palestine Baptist Church Cemetery OSSW Stella M. Bowles Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. =====================================================================