Twiggs County GaArchives Obituaries.....Chance, Homer Lee 1963
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Jim Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net June 10, 2008, 10:54 am

Macon Telegraph
 Homer Lee Chance was born 8-22-1897 and died 7-2-1963 (Ga. DC# 20134) and is
buried in Jeffersonville Cemetery. Her parents, William Henry Chance and Lula
Jane Sauls Chance are both buried at Prospect Methodist Chiurch Cemetery in
Twiggs County.

 

Jim Carroll    Obituary Below

 

From The Macon Telegraph   7-3-1963  Front Page

                                                        Trucker, Twiggs
Legislator Killed

DANVILLE---Twiggs County Rep. Homer L. Chance, helping push a stalled car ina
pickup truck, was killed Tuesday, in a spectacular crash when his vehicle was
rammed in the rear by a tractor-trailer truck.
The truck driver, Earl Smith of Garden City, also died and three Warner Robins
residents who were in the car were injured and hospitalized after it took about
two hours to free them.
Trooper P. M. Walker of the Dublin station of the Georgia State Patrol said the
tractor-trailer landed on top of the Warner Robins car and carried it 412 feet
before both crashed into a tree.
Walker investigated the tragedy, along with trooper R. D. Killingsworth, also of
the Dublin station, and Twiggs Sheriff W. Earl Hamrick.
The accident occured one-tenth of a mile from Danville on US 80.
Walker said there were no tire tracks to indicate Smith had applied brakes
before he plowed into the rear of Rep. Chance's truck. Whether he did put on
brakes and they didn't work or whether he didn't see the truck in time to try to
stop probably won't ever be known, the trooper said.
The driver was attempting to leap from the truck when the door he opened slammed
against a tree, the impact killing him, Walker said.
The Dublin trooper identified the injured, hospitalized at Laurens County
Hospital in Dublin, as:
Lemuel L. Denham, who suffered lacerations of the forehead and head injuries;
Mrs. Gladys Merk, lacerated head and burs of the right arm; and the wife of the
driver of the Warner Robins auto, Mrs. Frances Denham, bruises and a fractured
pelvis.
Mr. Chance was 67 and Mr. Smith 52.
The Twiggs County representative was a prominent farmer and former merchant of
Danville. He was a lifelong resident of Twiggs County and was the son of Henry
Chance and Mrs. Lula Jane Sauls Chance.
He was a deacon of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Danville, a member of the
Masonic Lodge 185, Free And Accepted Masons, and a veteran of World War I.
Chance had served previous terms in the Sate House of Representatives and also
was former state senator from the 51st district, the old district composed of
Twiggs, Bibb, and Houston counties.
Survivors include his widow, the former Miss Minnie Griffin of Danville; a
sister, Mrs. J. K. Carden of Danville; one brother, W. C. Chance, also of
Danville; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mr. Chance will be held at 3PM Thursday in the
Jeffersonville Methodist Church with burial to be in the Jeffersonville
Cemetery. Hart's Mortuary is in charge.
The Rev. W. Paul Jones, the Rev. Ralph Foster, the Rev. Sam Waldron and the Rev.
M. L. Moncrief will officiate.
Pallbearers include W. J. Chance, H. F. Helton, J. F. (Doc) Little, George
Blunt, M. V. Holiday and William J. Chance.
It was the fourth multiple death highway tragedy in Middle Georgia in the past
three months and the second in Twiggs County in about a month.


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