Wilcox-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Peebles, Alton Clyde "Judge" March 1966
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clipping from unnamed Georgia newspaper
Pitts Youth, 6 Others Killed in Florida Crash

     Alton Clyde (Judge) Peebles, 21, of Pitts, was one of three Georgia Tech 
students killed in a head-on collision Saturday night at Alachua, Fla.
     Also killed in the two-car accident were the mother, father and daughter 
of one family.
     A Florida Highway Patrolman said it appeared one of the cars was 
traveling south in a northbound lane of Interstate 75 when the collision 
occurred.  So badly mangled were the automobiles that some of the bodies had 
to be pried from the wreckage.
     The Highway Patrol identified the victims in one car, carrying the 
Georgia Tech students, as Alton Clyd Peebles, 21, of Pitts; John Stephen Gage, 
22, of Atlanta; and Richard H. Clotworthy, 19, of New Iberia, La.  Seriously 
injured was Gerald Burton Widgren, 21, of Newark, Del., also a Tech student, 
who was hospitalized.
     The dead in the other car were listed as Bennie Summers, 57, of Ocala, 
Fla., the driver, and a family including Walter Rozier, 61, of Ocala; his 
wife, Ruby, and a daughter, Judy, about 15.
     Alton Clyde Peebles was a native of Wilcox County, the son of Mr. and 
Mrs. L. O. Peebles of Pitts.  He was graduated from Crisp County High School.  
A junior at Georgia Tech, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.  He was a 
member of Pitts Baptist church.
     Survivors are his parents; two brothers, Pete Peebles of Fort Campbell, 
Ky., and Furman Peebles of Pitts; one sister, Miss Tena Peebles of Pitts; and 
his grandmother, Mrs. Julia Royal of Arabi.
     Funeral services were to be held today at 4 p.m. at Pitts Baptist church 
with Rev. Royce Adkins, Rev. Jack Dowdy and Rev. Earl Powell officiating.  
Interment was to be in Pitts Cemetery.
     Jamerson Funeral Home, Abbeville, was in charge of arrangements.

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