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Charles Norman Wooldridge

Birth
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25 May 1955 (aged 18)
Burial
Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Wm Green Wooldridge and Rena Clayton (from DC)

Russell County News, May 26, 1955

Charles Norman Wooldridge, one of three colored youths involved in a serious automobile accident last Sunday, died Wednesday night at Glasgow Clinic. The information was reported here at press time.

Wooldridge, son of Mr and Mrs Green Wooldridge, was in a car with Jack Clayton and Thomas Hays, which left the road on Highway 35, at the John O Simms place, near the Greasy Creek Bridge.

Clayton and Hays received less serious injuries.

From Russell County News, June 2, 1955

Charles Norman Wooldridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Green Wooldridge, died Thursday, May 25, as the result of injuries received in a car wreck on the Sunday before. He was 19 years old.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. Richardson and Rev. Willis were held Saturday, May 28, at Green's Chapel Church, in the presence of a large congregation of relatives and friends who assembled to pay a last tribute of respeck. Burial was in the old Green's Chapel Cemetery, with H. E. Pruitt Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.

Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green Wooldridge and seven brothers, Jack D. Clayton, William Glynn Wooldridge, Kenneth Kipling Wooldridge, Royland Andrew Wooldridge, Keith Randolph Wooldridge, and David Lowell Wooldridge. Also surviving are a grandmother, Mrs. Etta Clayton, a number of aunts and uncles, other relatives and many friends.

Charles Norman was greatly liked and respected and his passing was a source of much grief to them as well as to the family.
Parents: Wm Green Wooldridge and Rena Clayton (from DC)

Russell County News, May 26, 1955

Charles Norman Wooldridge, one of three colored youths involved in a serious automobile accident last Sunday, died Wednesday night at Glasgow Clinic. The information was reported here at press time.

Wooldridge, son of Mr and Mrs Green Wooldridge, was in a car with Jack Clayton and Thomas Hays, which left the road on Highway 35, at the John O Simms place, near the Greasy Creek Bridge.

Clayton and Hays received less serious injuries.

From Russell County News, June 2, 1955

Charles Norman Wooldridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Green Wooldridge, died Thursday, May 25, as the result of injuries received in a car wreck on the Sunday before. He was 19 years old.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. Richardson and Rev. Willis were held Saturday, May 28, at Green's Chapel Church, in the presence of a large congregation of relatives and friends who assembled to pay a last tribute of respeck. Burial was in the old Green's Chapel Cemetery, with H. E. Pruitt Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.

Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green Wooldridge and seven brothers, Jack D. Clayton, William Glynn Wooldridge, Kenneth Kipling Wooldridge, Royland Andrew Wooldridge, Keith Randolph Wooldridge, and David Lowell Wooldridge. Also surviving are a grandmother, Mrs. Etta Clayton, a number of aunts and uncles, other relatives and many friends.

Charles Norman was greatly liked and respected and his passing was a source of much grief to them as well as to the family.


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