Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....BLACKSHEAR, SLOAN B June 30, 1943 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 24, 2011, 11:37 am CORDELE DISPATCH SERVICES FOR SLOAN B MUSSLEWHITE CRASH VICTIM HELD TUESDAY 5 P.M. FUNERAL SERVICES OR SLOAN BLACKSHEAR MUSSLEWHITE ARM 3-C.,21,SECOND CRASH VICTIM OF PLANE ACCIDENT,NEAR WELLS FIELD FRIDAY MORNING AT TEN O'CLOCK,WERE HELD IN CORDELE AT HE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT FIVE O'CLOCK. THE SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED BY REV M.E. PEAVY ,PASTOR OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AND REV. A.B. HOSEA,PASTOR OF THE WENONA BAPTIST CHURCH. YOUBG MUSSLEWHITE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CRISP COUNTY ATTENDED THE CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL. HE JOINED THE NAVY LAST JUNE AND RECEIVED HIS TRAINING AT THE NORFOLK NAVY YARD BRFORE BEING ASSIGNED TO THE JACKSONVILLE BASE AS AVAITION RADIO INSTRUCTOR. HE WAS A YOUNG MAN OF PLEASING PERSONALITY AND ENDEARED HIMSELF TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HE WAS THE SON OF ALBERT AND CORA SLOAN MUSSLEWHITE OF 308 15TH AVE WEST, BORN OCTOBER 21,1921. PALLBEARERS WERE CONDUCTED OF FRIENDS AND SCHOOLMATES; JIM DOROUGH,JOE GARRETT,EARL CALHOUN,LOREN WILLIAMS JR., HAROLD SLADE, AND THOMAS SANDERS. THE ELLIS RENDERED TWO SONGS''NEARER MY GOD TO THEE'' AND ''PRECIOUS MEMORIES''. INTERMENT WAS IN SUNNYSIDE CEMETARY,SARGEANT G.B. RALSTON OF THE NAVAL BASE BLEW TAPS AT THE GRAVESIDE. SURVIVORS INCLUDE; HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, ONE SISTER WAVA MUSSLEWHITE; TWO BROTHERS,LEWIS MUSSLEWHITE, EASTMAN,AND JOE DAVIS MUSSLEWHITE,OF CORDELE. Additional Comments: SHIPMATE AND FRIEND JAMES T BROWN ,SE 2-C ACTED AS MILITARY ESCORT. A LARGE NUMBER OF OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE ATTENDED. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/b/blackshe13313ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb