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Ernest Clifford Mays

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Ernest Clifford Mays

Birth
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA
Death
29 Jul 1949 (aged 33)
Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, USA
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Winamac, Pulaski County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Military rites under the auspices of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were held Monday afternoon honoring Ernest Clifford Mays, thirty-three-year-old Winamac truck driver, who died Friday in an Urbana, Ohio, hospital. The services were held in the Fry & Lange funeral home, in charge of the Rev. C. D. Barringer and burial was in the Winamac Cemetery. Mr. Mays, whose wife is the former Hilda Faye Roller, was a driver for the Ready Trucking Co. He suffered fatal burns at seven o'clock Friday morning when his truck overturned and burst into flames in Champaign county, Ohio, two and a half mile outside of Urbana. A resident of the Winamac vicinity for the past two years, Mr. Mays was a son of Mrs. Minnie Mays of Webb City, Mo. He was born in St. Louis on Oct. 13, 1915, and was married here in Nov. 1, 1947, to Miss Roller. She survives with their nine-month-old son, Richard Lee. Also surviving are his mother, one brother, several half-sisters and half-brothers. He served in the Army in the European theater during World War 2, and was a member of the Webb City, Mo., Post of the American Legion and the Winamac V.F.W.
Pulaski County Democrat 04 Aug 1949
Military rites under the auspices of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were held Monday afternoon honoring Ernest Clifford Mays, thirty-three-year-old Winamac truck driver, who died Friday in an Urbana, Ohio, hospital. The services were held in the Fry & Lange funeral home, in charge of the Rev. C. D. Barringer and burial was in the Winamac Cemetery. Mr. Mays, whose wife is the former Hilda Faye Roller, was a driver for the Ready Trucking Co. He suffered fatal burns at seven o'clock Friday morning when his truck overturned and burst into flames in Champaign county, Ohio, two and a half mile outside of Urbana. A resident of the Winamac vicinity for the past two years, Mr. Mays was a son of Mrs. Minnie Mays of Webb City, Mo. He was born in St. Louis on Oct. 13, 1915, and was married here in Nov. 1, 1947, to Miss Roller. She survives with their nine-month-old son, Richard Lee. Also surviving are his mother, one brother, several half-sisters and half-brothers. He served in the Army in the European theater during World War 2, and was a member of the Webb City, Mo., Post of the American Legion and the Winamac V.F.W.
Pulaski County Democrat 04 Aug 1949

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