Schley-Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Schofield, Minnie Jewel May 5, 1942
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, May 8, 1942  No. 44
JEWEL SCHOFIELD, 20 YEAR-OLD SCHLEY GIRL, DROWNS TUESDAY
Minnie Jewel Schofield, attractive Schley county girl, was drowned Tuesday 
morning about 9:30 o'clock while swimming in a lake near Griffin, Ga.  She 
would have reached her 21st birthday Saturday, May 9.  Miss Schofield had gone 
swimming with her cousin, Margaret Giles, 18.  Returning to the water for a 
second dip while the other girl rested on the bank, she apparently was the 
victim of a heart attack.  Miss Giles plunged in to rescue her, but the girl 
was dead when her body was brought ashore.  The body was taken to a hospital, 
but three hours of artificial respiration failed to revive her.  The girl had 
been employed by a Griffin mill.  Until early this spring she worked at the 
Talbotton, Ga., telephone exchange.  Graduated by Schley county high school in 
May, 1939, Miss Schofield was class salutorian.  Supt. E.M. Palmer praised her 
as one of the most thorough and best all-round students the school has 
produced.  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Union 
Baptist church in Crawford county.  Burial was in the cemetery there.  
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Estelle Schofield, to whom she had already 
purchased and wrapped a gift for Mother's Day; three brothers, Frank, Camp 
Shelby, Miss., J.R. and David of Midway community.



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