Fulton-Greene County GaArchives Obituaries.....West, Roy Lee February 27, 1929
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The Atlanta Constitution, Feb 28 1929
Final Rites Today for Roy Lee West, Killed by Box Car
Funeral services will be conducted today in Woodville for Roy Lee West, 32, of 
329 Josephine street, switchman for the Georgia railroad, who was killed 
Wednesday when he was run over by a loose box car which was being switched in 
the yards near the Delta place-DeKalb avenue crossing.

The body will be taken at 6 o'clock this morning to Woodville for funeral 
services at noon today in the Woodville Baptist church. Burial will be in the 
churchyard, with Ed Bond & Condon Co. in charge.

West was killed when he slipped on the wet track and fell in the path of an 
oncoming boxcar which he was to have caught and ridden to the end of the track.

He had been in the employ of the Georgia railroad for abou two years. He was a 
world war veteran and had seen service overseas. He leaves his wife, two 
sisters, Mrs. C.P. Cullough and Miss Bertha West; two brothers, H.H. and W.P. 
West, and his father, J.B. West, of Woodville.

WEST--The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee West, Mr. and Mrs. W.B. West, Miss 
Dortha West, Master Roy West, all of Atlanta; Mr. J.B. West and Miss Bertha 
West, of Woodville, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Colclough, of Maxie, Ga.; Mr. and 
Mrs. H.H. West, of Decatur, Ga., are invited to attend the funeral of Mr. Roy 
Lee West this (Thursday), February 28, 1929 at noon, 12 o'clock, from the 
Baptist church at Woodville, Ga. Interment will be in churchyard cemetery. Rev. 
R.L. Robinson will officiate. Pallbearers will be selected from the members of 
B. of R.T. No. 925. Remains will leave over Georgia railway at 6 o'clock for 
Woodville. Ed Bond & Condon Co., funeral directors, in charge.

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