Motorcyclist Killed Here Sunday; 4th Traffic Facility Year to Date
Vehicle Skids Into Curb at Murdoch Avenue and 25th Street Early Yesterday Morning
Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Minnora Methodist church in Calhoun county for Samuel Leonidas Bailey, 32, of 3007 Walnut street, city, who was killed at 2:30 a.m. at Twenty-fifth and Murdoch avenue to become Wood county's fourth traffic fatality of 1948 to date. Investigating city police said Bailey was en route north on Murdoch, apparently at an excessive speed, when he hit the curbing in front of a Pennzoil service station at the intersection. Authorities said the motorcycle skidded 134 feet on the pavement.
Dr. R. W. Corbitt, Wood county coroner, said the victim died of a fractured skull and reported in addition Bailey suffered multiple lacerations of the face, head, arms and legs. An ambulance from the Shaver and Byham funeral home took the victim to the Camden-Clark Memorial hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Bailey was employed by the Mountain State Steel Foundry Company and was a veteran of World war II. He also was affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bailey, he is survived by four sisters, Myrtle of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Orva M. Hartleben and Rosie Nelle of Waverly and Mrs. Genevieve of Columbus, and two brothers, Donovan J. of Parkersburg and William C. of Columbus. The body will remain at the Shaver and Byham funeral home on Murdoch avenue until the time of the services. Interment will be made in the church cemetery where the final rites are to be held.
married Ollie Roxie Copeland
March 11, 1937, Pleasants Co., WV
Vehicle Skids Into Curb at Murdoch Avenue and 25th Street Early Yesterday Morning
Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Minnora Methodist church in Calhoun county for Samuel Leonidas Bailey, 32, of 3007 Walnut street, city, who was killed at 2:30 a.m. at Twenty-fifth and Murdoch avenue to become Wood county's fourth traffic fatality of 1948 to date. Investigating city police said Bailey was en route north on Murdoch, apparently at an excessive speed, when he hit the curbing in front of a Pennzoil service station at the intersection. Authorities said the motorcycle skidded 134 feet on the pavement.
Dr. R. W. Corbitt, Wood county coroner, said the victim died of a fractured skull and reported in addition Bailey suffered multiple lacerations of the face, head, arms and legs. An ambulance from the Shaver and Byham funeral home took the victim to the Camden-Clark Memorial hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Bailey was employed by the Mountain State Steel Foundry Company and was a veteran of World war II. He also was affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bailey, he is survived by four sisters, Myrtle of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Orva M. Hartleben and Rosie Nelle of Waverly and Mrs. Genevieve of Columbus, and two brothers, Donovan J. of Parkersburg and William C. of Columbus. The body will remain at the Shaver and Byham funeral home on Murdoch avenue until the time of the services. Interment will be made in the church cemetery where the final rites are to be held.
married Ollie Roxie Copeland
March 11, 1937, Pleasants Co., WV
Motorcyclist Killed Here Sunday; 4th Traffic Facility Year to Date
Vehicle Skids Into Curb at Murdoch Avenue and 25th Street Early Yesterday Morning
Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Minnora Methodist church in Calhoun county for Samuel Leonidas Bailey, 32, of 3007 Walnut street, city, who was killed at 2:30 a.m. at Twenty-fifth and Murdoch avenue to become Wood county's fourth traffic fatality of 1948 to date. Investigating city police said Bailey was en route north on Murdoch, apparently at an excessive speed, when he hit the curbing in front of a Pennzoil service station at the intersection. Authorities said the motorcycle skidded 134 feet on the pavement.
Dr. R. W. Corbitt, Wood county coroner, said the victim died of a fractured skull and reported in addition Bailey suffered multiple lacerations of the face, head, arms and legs. An ambulance from the Shaver and Byham funeral home took the victim to the Camden-Clark Memorial hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Bailey was employed by the Mountain State Steel Foundry Company and was a veteran of World war II. He also was affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bailey, he is survived by four sisters, Myrtle of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Orva M. Hartleben and Rosie Nelle of Waverly and Mrs. Genevieve of Columbus, and two brothers, Donovan J. of Parkersburg and William C. of Columbus. The body will remain at the Shaver and Byham funeral home on Murdoch avenue until the time of the services. Interment will be made in the church cemetery where the final rites are to be held.
married Ollie Roxie Copeland
March 11, 1937, Pleasants Co., WV
Vehicle Skids Into Curb at Murdoch Avenue and 25th Street Early Yesterday Morning
Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Minnora Methodist church in Calhoun county for Samuel Leonidas Bailey, 32, of 3007 Walnut street, city, who was killed at 2:30 a.m. at Twenty-fifth and Murdoch avenue to become Wood county's fourth traffic fatality of 1948 to date. Investigating city police said Bailey was en route north on Murdoch, apparently at an excessive speed, when he hit the curbing in front of a Pennzoil service station at the intersection. Authorities said the motorcycle skidded 134 feet on the pavement.
Dr. R. W. Corbitt, Wood county coroner, said the victim died of a fractured skull and reported in addition Bailey suffered multiple lacerations of the face, head, arms and legs. An ambulance from the Shaver and Byham funeral home took the victim to the Camden-Clark Memorial hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Bailey was employed by the Mountain State Steel Foundry Company and was a veteran of World war II. He also was affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Bailey, he is survived by four sisters, Myrtle of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Orva M. Hartleben and Rosie Nelle of Waverly and Mrs. Genevieve of Columbus, and two brothers, Donovan J. of Parkersburg and William C. of Columbus. The body will remain at the Shaver and Byham funeral home on Murdoch avenue until the time of the services. Interment will be made in the church cemetery where the final rites are to be held.
married Ollie Roxie Copeland
March 11, 1937, Pleasants Co., WV
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