Amarillo Daily News
January 8, 1948
PLAINVIEW- A charge of negligent homicide was filed this afternoon against Homer A. Rook, 50 years old, in connection with a traffic accident last night which claimed one life and injured six persons. Rook is a farmer in the Finney Switch Community 7 miles north of here.
Killed in the crash was Dallas Alford, 30 years old, head of the music department at Wayland College.
Funeral services for Alford will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the First Baptist Church with Dr. J.W. Marshall, president of Wayland College, and Dr. A. Hope Owen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery under direction of Roy Wood Funeral Home.
College classes will be dismissed for the day.
Alford was killed instantly in the crash of three automobiles. Their group of Plainview students and instructors were en route to Panhandle to present a program at the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Alford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Alford of Wellington. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1937. Other survivors are his wife, a sister, Mrs. Alvin Anthony, Amarillo and two brothers, C.T. and W.P. Alford, both of Amarillo.
Mr. Alford came to Wayland College last September. He was a graduate of Wayland College and attended Howard Payne College, Brownwood, and Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. He was working on his master's degree in music.
Mr. Alford had plans in the making for taking the Wayland College Choir on a tour of South America this summer.
Provided by Angie Mitchell Martin
January 8, 1948
PLAINVIEW- A charge of negligent homicide was filed this afternoon against Homer A. Rook, 50 years old, in connection with a traffic accident last night which claimed one life and injured six persons. Rook is a farmer in the Finney Switch Community 7 miles north of here.
Killed in the crash was Dallas Alford, 30 years old, head of the music department at Wayland College.
Funeral services for Alford will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the First Baptist Church with Dr. J.W. Marshall, president of Wayland College, and Dr. A. Hope Owen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery under direction of Roy Wood Funeral Home.
College classes will be dismissed for the day.
Alford was killed instantly in the crash of three automobiles. Their group of Plainview students and instructors were en route to Panhandle to present a program at the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Alford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Alford of Wellington. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1937. Other survivors are his wife, a sister, Mrs. Alvin Anthony, Amarillo and two brothers, C.T. and W.P. Alford, both of Amarillo.
Mr. Alford came to Wayland College last September. He was a graduate of Wayland College and attended Howard Payne College, Brownwood, and Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. He was working on his master's degree in music.
Mr. Alford had plans in the making for taking the Wayland College Choir on a tour of South America this summer.
Provided by Angie Mitchell Martin
Amarillo Daily News
January 8, 1948
PLAINVIEW- A charge of negligent homicide was filed this afternoon against Homer A. Rook, 50 years old, in connection with a traffic accident last night which claimed one life and injured six persons. Rook is a farmer in the Finney Switch Community 7 miles north of here.
Killed in the crash was Dallas Alford, 30 years old, head of the music department at Wayland College.
Funeral services for Alford will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the First Baptist Church with Dr. J.W. Marshall, president of Wayland College, and Dr. A. Hope Owen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery under direction of Roy Wood Funeral Home.
College classes will be dismissed for the day.
Alford was killed instantly in the crash of three automobiles. Their group of Plainview students and instructors were en route to Panhandle to present a program at the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Alford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Alford of Wellington. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1937. Other survivors are his wife, a sister, Mrs. Alvin Anthony, Amarillo and two brothers, C.T. and W.P. Alford, both of Amarillo.
Mr. Alford came to Wayland College last September. He was a graduate of Wayland College and attended Howard Payne College, Brownwood, and Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. He was working on his master's degree in music.
Mr. Alford had plans in the making for taking the Wayland College Choir on a tour of South America this summer.
Provided by Angie Mitchell Martin
January 8, 1948
PLAINVIEW- A charge of negligent homicide was filed this afternoon against Homer A. Rook, 50 years old, in connection with a traffic accident last night which claimed one life and injured six persons. Rook is a farmer in the Finney Switch Community 7 miles north of here.
Killed in the crash was Dallas Alford, 30 years old, head of the music department at Wayland College.
Funeral services for Alford will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the First Baptist Church with Dr. J.W. Marshall, president of Wayland College, and Dr. A. Hope Owen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery under direction of Roy Wood Funeral Home.
College classes will be dismissed for the day.
Alford was killed instantly in the crash of three automobiles. Their group of Plainview students and instructors were en route to Panhandle to present a program at the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Alford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Alford of Wellington. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1937. Other survivors are his wife, a sister, Mrs. Alvin Anthony, Amarillo and two brothers, C.T. and W.P. Alford, both of Amarillo.
Mr. Alford came to Wayland College last September. He was a graduate of Wayland College and attended Howard Payne College, Brownwood, and Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. He was working on his master's degree in music.
Mr. Alford had plans in the making for taking the Wayland College Choir on a tour of South America this summer.
Provided by Angie Mitchell Martin
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