Muscogee COUNTY  GA   Thurmond obituaries

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Dr. Walter J. Thurmond - 1932

THE COLUMBUS LEDGER, Thursday, September 29, 1932, page 8, column 3:

Dr. Thurmond Dies Suddenly:  Funeral for Local Dentist Will Be Held Friday, Death 
Caused by Apoplexy.
     Funeral services for Dr. Walter J. Thurmond, well known Columbus dentist, who 
was found dead in the garden at the rear of his home, 709 Twenty-eighth street, 
Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, will be held Friday morning at 11 o'clock at the D.A. 
Striffler chapel.  Rev. B.A. Pafford, pastor of Rose Hill Methodist church, will 
officiate.  Interment will be in Riverdale cemetery.
     Dr. Thurmond's lifeless body was discovered in the garden by Roy H. Thurmond, 
his son, when members of the family became alarmed by his absence.  A jury under the 
direction of Coroner J.W. Dortch, found that death had resulted from a stroke of 
apoplexy.
     When Dr. Thurmond left the house, members of the family thought he had gone next 
door to the home of his son, they dold the coroner's jury.  Later they found he was 
not there, and the son discovered his father's body lying in the garden.  A physician 
was summoned, but he pronounced the dentist dead.

     Growing of vegetables was one of Dr. Thurmond's hobbies.  His body was found 
among the plants that he had tended so carefully.

     He was born in Forsyth, Ga., but had been in Columbus for 31 years, and during 
that time had followed his profession.
     Dr. Thurmond is survived by his wife; two sons, Roy H. Thurmond, of Columbus, 
and Walter L. Thurmond, of Atlanta; five brothers, George Thurmond of Crest, Ga; 
Thomas D. Thurmond of Forsyth, Ga; G.F. Thurmond of Forsyth; J.M. Thurmond of 
Forsyth; and C.A. Thurmond of Perry, Ga; six sisters, Mrs. Lucy Bryan, of Tampa, Fla; 
Mrs. Emmett Culpepper, of Zenith, Ga; Mrs. Tom Means of Yatesville, Ga; Mrs. Lee 
Hawkins of Barnesville, Ga; and Misses Ethel and Vivian Thurmond of Forsyth.
     Members of the coroner's jury who investigated the dentist's death were A.G. 
Reese, foreman, Al Bartee, Sam Comiskey, A.J. Perroux, John Newberry and D.O. Sweat.


THE COLUMBUS LEDGER, Friday, September 30, 1932, page 11, column 3:
Dr. Walter J. Thurmond
     Funeral services for Dr. Walter J. Thurond, well known Columbus dentist, whose 
sudden death occurred Wednesday night at his residence, 109 Twenty-eighth street, 
were held Friday morning at 11 o'clock at the D.A. Striffler chapel.  Rev. Bascom A. 
Pafford, pastor of Rose Hill Methodist church, officiated.
     Mrs. B.F. Register sang, "Sometime, Somewhere," and "Sweet Bye and Bye."
     The following served as pallbearers:  W.P. Sayers, F.B. Boyce, Hugh Baird, 
George Blau, L.M. Biggers and J.W. Storey.
     The interment occurred in Riverdale cemetery.
     In addition to his wife and two sons, Dr. Thurmond is also survived by a 
grandson, Fred Hoyle Thurmond, II.

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COLUMBUS LEDGER, Monday 23, 1956, page 1, column 2:
Attack Fatal to Jordan Exec R.H. Thurmond
     Roy Hamilton Thurmond Sr., 63-year-old treasurer of Jordan Mills, was found dead 
Sunday afternoon in a wooded area in Harris county, and Harris County Coroner J.H. 
Stevens said death was due to a heart attack.
     Thurmond, who resided at 3305 13th Ave., was found near a spot where he had gone 
to gather top soil, by motorist Lee Stone who called Muscogee county police.

     Coroner Stevens said Thurmond apparently suffered the attack about 3:30 p.m., 
and the body was discovered around 6 p.m. on Ellerslie Road just off Gray Rock Road 
in a patch of woods.
     Thurmond was born Oct. 10, 1891 in Forsyth, Ga., son of the late Dr. Walter Lee 
and Cora Anthony Thurmond.  He had lived in Columbus 56 years and had been connected 
with Jordan Mills most of that time.
     He was a member of Rose Hill Methodist Church and a veteran of World War I.

     Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vera Cowen Thurmond; a son, Roy H. Thurmond Jr., 
student at Georgia Tech; a daughter, Reba Thurmond, student at Wesleyan College, 
Macon; a brother, Lee Thurmond, Atlanta; a nephew, Fred Thurmod, Columbus.
     Funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Striffler-Hamby Mortuary Chapel 
with the Rev. Shannon Holloway, pastor of the Rose Hill Methodist Church in charge.  
Burial will be in Parkhill Cemetery.
     Pallbearers will be J.E. Baisch, Lee Perkins, Phillip G. Carpenter, J.W. Davis, 
J.W. Greer and F.M. Stevenson.
     Honorary Pallbearers will be Curtis Jordan Sr., Curtis Jordan Jr., R.H. Rabbitt, 
B.F. Cummings, Tippe Peddy, Vernon Smith, S.J. Porter Sr., John Robert Smith, J.D. 
Faulkner Sr., Haywood Farr, and the official board and stewards of the Rose Hill 
Methodist Church.
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