Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tittle, Russell December 1927
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The Valdosta Daily Times, December 24, 1927
The Valdosta Daily Times, page 5, Saturday, December 24, 1927
Boy Dies in a Motorbike Crash
Russell Tittle, of Nashville, Dies Following Crash With Car
	Russell Tittle, seventeen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Tittle, of 
Nashville, died on Friday evening, during an operation for the amputation of a 
leg that was crushed in a motorcycle crash on Friday.
	The young man was going from his home in Nashville to Douglas, to spend 
a few days with a brother who resided there.  Just this side of Ocilla, while he 
was headed north, he endeavored to pass a south-bound car in a sand bed.  
Neither the motorcycle that he was riding, nor the car, were traveling at 
excessive speed, but the front wheel of the motorbike got caught in the sand, 
skidded and threw him under the automobile.
	The car could not be stopped soon enough, and the boy and motorcycle 
were both crushed under its wheels, while he was entangled with his own machine.
	The bus, passing at that time, picked him up and carried him to Ocilla.  
Every effort to find a doctor there failed, every doctor in the town being out 
on a call somewhere in the country, it being said.  He lingered there for 
perhaps an hour, bleeding profusely from his leg, which was horribly mutilated.
	He was then rushed to Fitzgerald, where it was decided that an operation 
would be necessary immediately.  In the performance of the operation, which was 
a last recourse, he died.  The extreme loss of blood, it was said, occasioned 
his death, as it was sometime before he could be gotten to the hospital from the 
scene of the accident.
	The young man was a student in the Nashville High School, where he was 
in the ninth grade.  He was unusually popular with his school mates and 
teachers, and was a most attractive young man.
	Motorcycling was one of his favorite sports, and he made frequent trips 
to nearby towns on his machine.  He had never met with a serious spill before, 
it was learned.
	Funeral services will be held in Nashville on Sunday afternoon, although 
complete arrangements had not been made.  The services will be conducted by Rev. 
A.H. Giddens, pastor of the Baptist Church there.
	The deceased is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Tittle, by 
three sisters, Mrs. Merle Clyatt, of Nashville, and Misses Mary and Christine 
Tittle, of Nashville, and by three brothers, Mr. Hugh Tittle, of Douglas, and 
Messrs. Guy and John Archie Tittle, of Nashville.


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