[Marriage certificate 1935]
[Death certificate]

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      State Police Tighten Road Patrol As
         Three Auto Victims Wait Funerals

State police highway patrolmen, faced already in December with the highest number of deaths in any one month of the year, will begin a double-holiday patrol today. Detachment headquarter officers said the patrol will be conducted in the same manner as ones on all other holidays throughout the year.

A highway death Friday night and two more Thursday night shattered the belief, built up during the last two years by statistics. that most highway deaths occur in summer months on safe roads.

Lum Osborne, 36-year-old Semoco coal loader, was struck by an automobile near Eccles Friday. He died a short time later from a skull fracture. Clarence Morris, 18, of Kilsyth, told police he ran over Osborne while the latter was sitting almost in the middle of the road. Morris was released after questioning.
Bill Bennington and Cupie Clyde J. Lilly, Cool Ridge youths, were killed in a major collision about two miles south of Shady Spring on Route 19-21 Thursday night.

Funeral services for Lilly will be conducted in Mount View this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in Mount View cemetery. Pallbearers for the Lilly funeral: Active — Acie Crawford, Bill Griffith, and Paris Bowling. Honorary—Major Lilly, Thomas Lilly, Jessie Bowling, Noel Ransom, Basil Fink, James Lilly, Stephen Tolliver, and Bill Lilly. Flower girls—Geraldine Fink, Velma Lilly, Evelyn Griffith. Pauline Eads, Ruth and Virginia Griffith.

The Bennington rites will be held in the home at Cool Ridge this afternoon at 2:30 by the Rev. A. D. Wylie and the Rev. T. D. Cochran. Burial will be in Phillips cemetery.

Osborn, fifth person to die in highway mishaps in December, boosted the death toll for the year to 19, one above the number tor 1936, but five below the total for last year. Surviving Osborne are: his widow, Odie Evelyn Osborne and three children, Rosie, Shirley, and Harry Osborne, all of Eccles, and two sisters, Mrs. Garfield Lester, Stacey, Va., and Mrs. E. J. Ellis, Eccles. Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Mount Tabor church. Burial will be in Mount Tabor cemetery.

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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, W.Va.
Sunday
December 25, 1938
page 8
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