Grady COUNTY GA Obituaries - Ford John Harrell 1963 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Janet Sumner ************************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ************************************************************************************************************** The Cairo Messenger, October 28, 1963 Grady County Native Ford J. Harrell, Dies From Accident Services for Ford John Harrell, 53, 438 Westover Avenue, Thomasville, Ga. were conducted at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 17, 1963 at Eastside Baptist Church. Burial was in Laurel Hill Cemetery by Kirkland Croy Hughes Home for Funerals. Mr. Harrell died Thursday, Oct. 14, in a Gainesville, Fla. hospital as a result of a train accident. A Grady County native, he moved to Thomasville seven years ago from Waycross. He had been a flagman for ACL Railroad for 24 years and was a member of Central Baptist Church of Waycross. Surviving are his widow, a dughter, Mrs. Joe Huie, Atlanta, two step-sons, Norman G. Waldorf, Panama City, Fla., and Benny L. Waldorf, Thomasville, his mother, Mrs. E. R. Harrell, Cairo, two brothers, Donald Harrell, Cairo, and Frank Harell, Nashville, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. J. C. Stewart, Albany, Mrs. Joe Huici, St. Augustine, Fla., and Mrs. Frank Veale, Cairo; and one granddaughter. Pallbearers were A. C. Singletary, W. L. Thornton, F. B. Meigs, M. E. Attaway, P. M. Chastain and C. L. Ovbermier. ACL Railroad were honorary pallbearers.