Harvey Franklin McLemore, 57 year old county resident on Route One, Hayti, died Thursday morning, May 12, at Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital of injuries received in a highway accident Tuesday afternoon, May 10. The accident occurred almost a mile north of the Highway 61 and 84 intersection at Hayti.
State Highway patrolman who investigated said McLemore was traveling west in a 1947 Plymouth coach on a gravel road and failed to stop at a highway stop sign, driving directly into the path of a 1949 Crysler couple proceeding north on 61, driven by Ray Benjamin Burns, 37, of Sikeston.
Burns suffered cuts about the face and Tom Frizzell, a passenger in his car, received lacerations to the face and a hand.
Mr. McLemore was born February 28, 1898, in Texas, the son of the late George and Myra McLemore and later attended school in Oklahoma. For the past several years he had farmed near Hayti and was a member of the Baptist church in that city.
On August 14, 1919, in Double Springs, Ala., he was married to Miss Addie Dees, who survives.
He also leaves four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Kutz of Allentown, Penn., Mrs. Mamie Clark, Elmo, Tenn. and Bonnie and Christine of the home; eight sons, Vernon, Harvey Jr., Jimmy, Floyd, Richard, Ray, Edward and Edgar McLemore, all of Hayti; sixteen grandchildren; four sisters and three brothers, one of whom, John McLemore, lives on Route 1, Caruthersville.
Funeral services were held Friday mornng at the H.S. Smith Guneral Home chapel with the pastor of the Assembly of God here, officiating. Burial was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, May 20, 1955
PARENTS: George and Myra Osburn McLemore
GRANDDAUGHTER: Sheila Francis McLemore (1969-1969)
GRANDDAUGHTER: Vicky Lynn McLemore (1966-1998) Both interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Hayti, Mo.
State Highway patrolman who investigated said McLemore was traveling west in a 1947 Plymouth coach on a gravel road and failed to stop at a highway stop sign, driving directly into the path of a 1949 Crysler couple proceeding north on 61, driven by Ray Benjamin Burns, 37, of Sikeston.
Burns suffered cuts about the face and Tom Frizzell, a passenger in his car, received lacerations to the face and a hand.
Mr. McLemore was born February 28, 1898, in Texas, the son of the late George and Myra McLemore and later attended school in Oklahoma. For the past several years he had farmed near Hayti and was a member of the Baptist church in that city.
On August 14, 1919, in Double Springs, Ala., he was married to Miss Addie Dees, who survives.
He also leaves four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Kutz of Allentown, Penn., Mrs. Mamie Clark, Elmo, Tenn. and Bonnie and Christine of the home; eight sons, Vernon, Harvey Jr., Jimmy, Floyd, Richard, Ray, Edward and Edgar McLemore, all of Hayti; sixteen grandchildren; four sisters and three brothers, one of whom, John McLemore, lives on Route 1, Caruthersville.
Funeral services were held Friday mornng at the H.S. Smith Guneral Home chapel with the pastor of the Assembly of God here, officiating. Burial was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, May 20, 1955
PARENTS: George and Myra Osburn McLemore
GRANDDAUGHTER: Sheila Francis McLemore (1969-1969)
GRANDDAUGHTER: Vicky Lynn McLemore (1966-1998) Both interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Hayti, Mo.
Harvey Franklin McLemore, 57 year old county resident on Route One, Hayti, died Thursday morning, May 12, at Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital of injuries received in a highway accident Tuesday afternoon, May 10. The accident occurred almost a mile north of the Highway 61 and 84 intersection at Hayti.
State Highway patrolman who investigated said McLemore was traveling west in a 1947 Plymouth coach on a gravel road and failed to stop at a highway stop sign, driving directly into the path of a 1949 Crysler couple proceeding north on 61, driven by Ray Benjamin Burns, 37, of Sikeston.
Burns suffered cuts about the face and Tom Frizzell, a passenger in his car, received lacerations to the face and a hand.
Mr. McLemore was born February 28, 1898, in Texas, the son of the late George and Myra McLemore and later attended school in Oklahoma. For the past several years he had farmed near Hayti and was a member of the Baptist church in that city.
On August 14, 1919, in Double Springs, Ala., he was married to Miss Addie Dees, who survives.
He also leaves four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Kutz of Allentown, Penn., Mrs. Mamie Clark, Elmo, Tenn. and Bonnie and Christine of the home; eight sons, Vernon, Harvey Jr., Jimmy, Floyd, Richard, Ray, Edward and Edgar McLemore, all of Hayti; sixteen grandchildren; four sisters and three brothers, one of whom, John McLemore, lives on Route 1, Caruthersville.
Funeral services were held Friday mornng at the H.S. Smith Guneral Home chapel with the pastor of the Assembly of God here, officiating. Burial was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, May 20, 1955
PARENTS: George and Myra Osburn McLemore
GRANDDAUGHTER: Sheila Francis McLemore (1969-1969)
GRANDDAUGHTER: Vicky Lynn McLemore (1966-1998) Both interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Hayti, Mo.
State Highway patrolman who investigated said McLemore was traveling west in a 1947 Plymouth coach on a gravel road and failed to stop at a highway stop sign, driving directly into the path of a 1949 Crysler couple proceeding north on 61, driven by Ray Benjamin Burns, 37, of Sikeston.
Burns suffered cuts about the face and Tom Frizzell, a passenger in his car, received lacerations to the face and a hand.
Mr. McLemore was born February 28, 1898, in Texas, the son of the late George and Myra McLemore and later attended school in Oklahoma. For the past several years he had farmed near Hayti and was a member of the Baptist church in that city.
On August 14, 1919, in Double Springs, Ala., he was married to Miss Addie Dees, who survives.
He also leaves four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Kutz of Allentown, Penn., Mrs. Mamie Clark, Elmo, Tenn. and Bonnie and Christine of the home; eight sons, Vernon, Harvey Jr., Jimmy, Floyd, Richard, Ray, Edward and Edgar McLemore, all of Hayti; sixteen grandchildren; four sisters and three brothers, one of whom, John McLemore, lives on Route 1, Caruthersville.
Funeral services were held Friday mornng at the H.S. Smith Guneral Home chapel with the pastor of the Assembly of God here, officiating. Burial was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, May 20, 1955
PARENTS: George and Myra Osburn McLemore
GRANDDAUGHTER: Sheila Francis McLemore (1969-1969)
GRANDDAUGHTER: Vicky Lynn McLemore (1966-1998) Both interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Hayti, Mo.
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