Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jeffries, William Curtis August 16 1980
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Columbus Ledger, Aug. 17, 1980
Local Labor Head Dies
William Curtis Jeffries was a big man in his stature and in his work. 
The former labor leader died Saturday at Muscogee Manor Nursing Home in 
Columbus. He was 78. 
Jeffries was 6 foot one and weighed 225 pounds - and on the labor scene, he 
couldn't be missed. He was president of the Columbus Central Labor Union 
(forerunner of the Chattahoochee Valley Central Labor Council) and vice 
president of the old Georgia Federation of Labor. He tried to organize a 
textile union but it was unsuccessful. 
He was 15 when he became a projectionist showing silent films at the Benieta 
Theater downtown. The business had already been unionized by the International 
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. He loved motion pictures, and he was a 
projectionist for 52 years. 
He was also a reporter for the Ledger. 
Jeffries, 1215 21st St., was born Aug. 2. 1902, in Columbus, son of Mr. And 
Mrs. John S. Jeffries. The outgoing, likeable man had lived in Columbus all of 
his life and was a member of the St. Mark United Methodist Church. 
Survivors include two daughters, Margaret J. Plott of Columbus and Frances 
Coots of Hollywood, Fla., three sons, William O. and Clifford K. Jeffries of 
Columbus, and John S. Jeffries of Miami; a brother, Clifford J. Jeffries, of 
Columbus, 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. 
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary's 
13th Street Chapel, with the Rev. C. M. Skipper and Elder William O. Jeffries 
officiating. Interment will be in Riverdale Cemetery. Active Pallbearers will 
be the grandsons and honorary pallbearers will be the members of the 
I.A.T.S.E. local No. 568. 


Additional Comments:
W. C. Jeffries was the son of John Swept Jeffries and Sannie Mae Burton. 
His Paternal Grandparents were, William Robert Jeffries and Margaret 
Kennington. Maternal Grandparents were William E. Burton and Mary Elizabeth 
Willis, of Phenix City, AL
His lineage traces back to Capt. Lodowick Tuggle, Patriot of the American 
Revolutionary War.
 

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