Lonnie Raymond Estes, for fourteen years employed by S. Crews Reynolds as foreman on his farm on Route U between this city and Braggadocio, was instantly killed last Sunday morning a few minutes before ten o'clock, when the tractor he was driving across the Frisco railway near the farm at what is known as Shade Switch was struck by the north-bound Frisco passenger train. His body was thrown into the air and lodged on the engine's cow-catcher, where it remained until the train could be brought to a stop at the Blazer crossing some two or three miles to the north. Both of Mr. Estes' feet were cut off and he was dead when the trainmen reached him. The tractor and an attached cultivator, property of Mr. Reynolds, were broken up and utterly demolished.
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Born in Gibson County, Tenn., May 15, 1912, Mr. Estes was only a few days beyond his 34th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Willie Jane Estes, two sons and one daughter, R.S., Ralph C., and Wanda Jane Estes. Four sisters survive, being Mrs. Irene Newell of Cottage Grove, Tenn., Mrs. Lucille Brown of Bragg City, Mo. and Mrs. Mary Chandler and Miss Gene Estes of Ripley, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Tuesday of this week at the Smith Funeral Home, the Rev. D.K. Foster, Baptist minister here, officiating and interment was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, June 7, 1946
PARENTS: L.C. and Ida Gray Estes
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Born in Gibson County, Tenn., May 15, 1912, Mr. Estes was only a few days beyond his 34th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Willie Jane Estes, two sons and one daughter, R.S., Ralph C., and Wanda Jane Estes. Four sisters survive, being Mrs. Irene Newell of Cottage Grove, Tenn., Mrs. Lucille Brown of Bragg City, Mo. and Mrs. Mary Chandler and Miss Gene Estes of Ripley, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Tuesday of this week at the Smith Funeral Home, the Rev. D.K. Foster, Baptist minister here, officiating and interment was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, June 7, 1946
PARENTS: L.C. and Ida Gray Estes
Lonnie Raymond Estes, for fourteen years employed by S. Crews Reynolds as foreman on his farm on Route U between this city and Braggadocio, was instantly killed last Sunday morning a few minutes before ten o'clock, when the tractor he was driving across the Frisco railway near the farm at what is known as Shade Switch was struck by the north-bound Frisco passenger train. His body was thrown into the air and lodged on the engine's cow-catcher, where it remained until the train could be brought to a stop at the Blazer crossing some two or three miles to the north. Both of Mr. Estes' feet were cut off and he was dead when the trainmen reached him. The tractor and an attached cultivator, property of Mr. Reynolds, were broken up and utterly demolished.
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Born in Gibson County, Tenn., May 15, 1912, Mr. Estes was only a few days beyond his 34th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Willie Jane Estes, two sons and one daughter, R.S., Ralph C., and Wanda Jane Estes. Four sisters survive, being Mrs. Irene Newell of Cottage Grove, Tenn., Mrs. Lucille Brown of Bragg City, Mo. and Mrs. Mary Chandler and Miss Gene Estes of Ripley, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Tuesday of this week at the Smith Funeral Home, the Rev. D.K. Foster, Baptist minister here, officiating and interment was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, June 7, 1946
PARENTS: L.C. and Ida Gray Estes
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Born in Gibson County, Tenn., May 15, 1912, Mr. Estes was only a few days beyond his 34th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Willie Jane Estes, two sons and one daughter, R.S., Ralph C., and Wanda Jane Estes. Four sisters survive, being Mrs. Irene Newell of Cottage Grove, Tenn., Mrs. Lucille Brown of Bragg City, Mo. and Mrs. Mary Chandler and Miss Gene Estes of Ripley, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Tuesday of this week at the Smith Funeral Home, the Rev. D.K. Foster, Baptist minister here, officiating and interment was in Maple cemetery.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, June 7, 1946
PARENTS: L.C. and Ida Gray Estes
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