Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Byrd, Elwood E. & Eulie C. March 22, 1953
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23 March 1953; The Brunswick News; pg. 10 col. 1

BRUNSWICK MAN, GLYNCO SAILOR DIE IN WRECKS—WEEKEND ACCIDENTS KILL EULIE BYRD 
AND DONALD WHITE

	Automobile accidents over the weekend claimed the lives of a Brunswick 
man and a young sailor stationed at Glynco.
	Eulie C. Byrd, 34, Brunswick mechanic, was killed about midnight last 
night in a collision at Enigma on the Waycross-Tifton Highway.  The accident 
also stamped out the life of Mr. Byrd’s cousin, Elwood E. Byrd of Folkston.
	Three others also were killed in the Enigma accident and seven were 
injured, according to the Associated Press.
	Mr. Byrd’s body will be brought back to Brunswick today by the Miller 
Funeral Home and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
	He formerly was employed by the Coastal Chevrolet Corporation and 
Bailey Motors.  He resided at 2114 Wolf Street.
	Survivors include his wife and three children.
	The Glynco sailor and his girlfriend lost their lives early Sunday 
morning in a spectacular head-on auto collision on U.S. 441 near Douglas.  The 
accident also killed two others.
	Killed were AM 3/c Donald S. White, 22, of Glynco and his pretty 21 
year-old girl friend, Miss Faye McClelland of Douglas, Leon H. Tanner, Sr., 
54, and Chester H. Taylor, 43, both prominent residents of Douglas.
	The tragedy occurred on the crest of a hill on the Douglas-Pearson 
Highway, state troopers said.  Both cars were demolished.  White, drive of one 
of the cars was pinned in the wreckage and Miss McClelland was thrown out of 
the car.  She died at 5 a.m. Sunday in a Douglas hospital.
	White’s body will be forwarded to his home at Lubbock, Texas, where 
funeral services will be held.  He had been stationed at Glynco for three 
months.  He had been in the Navy for two years and is survived by his mother 
and a brother.
	Funeral services for the other victims will be held tomorrow in 
Douglas.
	Mr. Tanner was a large turpentine operator, farmer and part-owner of 
two funeral homes.  Mr. Taylor was an official and an owner of the Coffee 
County Creamery at Douglas.


Tuesday 10 March 1953; pg. 10 col. 3
	
BYRD SERVICES TO BE THURSDAY

	Funeral services for Eulie Cecil Boyd [sic], 33, fatally injured in an 
automobile accident near Tifton Sunday night, will be held Tursday morning at 
11 o’clock at the Norwich Street Baptist Church, with the Rev. C.H. Moss, 
pastor, officiating.
	Active pallbearers will be Ted Bennett, Wilbur Horton, Joe Hightower, 
C.M. Hughes, Pursey Harrell and Thomas Arthur.
	The body will remain at the chapel of the Miller Funeral Home until 
Wednesday when it will be taken to the home of a niece, Mrs. J.G. Martin, 3318 
Treville Ave., to await the hour of service.
	Mr. Byrd, a native of Charlton County, had been a resident of 
Brunswick for the past 10 years.  He was a veteran of World War II, serving in 
the Army.
	Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ouida Beasley Byrd; three children, 
Jerry, 8, Sue, 5, and Larry, 4; his father, Austin F. Byrd, Folkston; and five 
sisters, Mrs. E.G. Bruce, Glendale, Calif., Mrs. W.L. Woolard, Folkston, Mrs. 
Eva Murray, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Mrs. Eunice Hasting, Brunswick.

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