FRANK WILFORD DROWNS IN LAKE
Frank Wilford, 40 year old local brick mason, drowned accidentally in Lake Bradford late Tuesday while trying out a motor on a homemade boat....
Wilford and a companion had tried out the craft and motor once and it sank...on a second attempt, this time by himself Wilford lost control of the boat and it overturned a few hundred feet offshore..
A group of searchers are dragging the lake today in an effort to recover the body
Wilford who came here several years ago from Thomasville, Ga is survived by his wife, Mrs Louise Wilford and three brothers Everette Wilford, Hubert Wilford, and Ralph Wilford all of Tallahassee, the Wilfords resided near Four Points on the Woodville highway
Old newspaper clipping found in Gladys Wilford's scrap book (Everette's wife), no date, assume from the Jacksonville paper February 24, 1947
Frank Wilford, 40 year old local brick mason, drowned accidentally in Lake Bradford late Tuesday while trying out a motor on a homemade boat....
Wilford and a companion had tried out the craft and motor once and it sank...on a second attempt, this time by himself Wilford lost control of the boat and it overturned a few hundred feet offshore..
A group of searchers are dragging the lake today in an effort to recover the body
Wilford who came here several years ago from Thomasville, Ga is survived by his wife, Mrs Louise Wilford and three brothers Everette Wilford, Hubert Wilford, and Ralph Wilford all of Tallahassee, the Wilfords resided near Four Points on the Woodville highway
Old newspaper clipping found in Gladys Wilford's scrap book (Everette's wife), no date, assume from the Jacksonville paper February 24, 1947
FRANK WILFORD DROWNS IN LAKE
Frank Wilford, 40 year old local brick mason, drowned accidentally in Lake Bradford late Tuesday while trying out a motor on a homemade boat....
Wilford and a companion had tried out the craft and motor once and it sank...on a second attempt, this time by himself Wilford lost control of the boat and it overturned a few hundred feet offshore..
A group of searchers are dragging the lake today in an effort to recover the body
Wilford who came here several years ago from Thomasville, Ga is survived by his wife, Mrs Louise Wilford and three brothers Everette Wilford, Hubert Wilford, and Ralph Wilford all of Tallahassee, the Wilfords resided near Four Points on the Woodville highway
Old newspaper clipping found in Gladys Wilford's scrap book (Everette's wife), no date, assume from the Jacksonville paper February 24, 1947
Frank Wilford, 40 year old local brick mason, drowned accidentally in Lake Bradford late Tuesday while trying out a motor on a homemade boat....
Wilford and a companion had tried out the craft and motor once and it sank...on a second attempt, this time by himself Wilford lost control of the boat and it overturned a few hundred feet offshore..
A group of searchers are dragging the lake today in an effort to recover the body
Wilford who came here several years ago from Thomasville, Ga is survived by his wife, Mrs Louise Wilford and three brothers Everette Wilford, Hubert Wilford, and Ralph Wilford all of Tallahassee, the Wilfords resided near Four Points on the Woodville highway
Old newspaper clipping found in Gladys Wilford's scrap book (Everette's wife), no date, assume from the Jacksonville paper February 24, 1947
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buried above his mother Florence Price Wilford (unmarked gravestone)
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