The soldier, on a 30 day leave was en route from Fort Hood, TX to Fort Dix, NJ, from where he was to leave for duty in Germany. He had been in Memphis less than a day when the accident happened.
He was one of two persons killed Saturday, April 25, in a high speed one-car accident near 4198 Germantown Road. He and the other occupant, Rita E. Ethridge, 25, of 2039 Waverly were identified by sheriff's deputies Both were apparently killed instantly in the crash which left their automobile "in pieces" and wrapped around a utility pole.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Martha Gauldin of Memphis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reid Gauldin of the Marianne Lane address; two brothers, Tommy Gauldin and Tony Gauldin, and his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, all of Memphis.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, April 27, 1970.
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The soldier, on a 30 day leave was en route from Fort Hood, TX to Fort Dix, NJ, from where he was to leave for duty in Germany. He had been in Memphis less than a day when the accident happened.
He was one of two persons killed Saturday, April 25, in a high speed one-car accident near 4198 Germantown Road. He and the other occupant, Rita E. Ethridge, 25, of 2039 Waverly were identified by sheriff's deputies Both were apparently killed instantly in the crash which left their automobile "in pieces" and wrapped around a utility pole.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Martha Gauldin of Memphis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reid Gauldin of the Marianne Lane address; two brothers, Tommy Gauldin and Tony Gauldin, and his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, all of Memphis.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on Monday, April 27, 1970.
CLICK HERE FOR MEMORIALS OF OTHER 1967 CLASS MEMBERS.
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