Ingham County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Moore, Donald Duane ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Moore http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007687 March 11, 2010, 1:25 pm Cemetery: Maple Ridge Cemetery Name: Donald Duane Moore Date Of Photograph: April 15, 2009 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/ingham/photos/tombstones/mapleridge/moore105439nph.jpg Image file size: 194.0 Kb MOORE WILLIAM L. OUR DONALD D. 1950 - 1966 SONS 1957 - 1966 MOORE DEANA I. TOGETHER ROBERT 1926 - FOREVER 1926 FATHER 1988 US NAVY WWII Note: Robert and Deana (Irene) Griffin were the parents of William L. Moore, second born son and Donald Duane was the sixth born child. All together they were seven children, 5 boys and two girls. Billy was 16 and a 9th grade student at Mason Junior High School amd Donald was age 8 and a third grade student at Cedar Street Elementary school in Mason. Billy and Donald died tragically together in a drowning accident on June 30, 1977 at the Ingham County Road Commission Sand and Gravel Pit located on Kerns Road in Mason, Michigan Thursday night on June 30, 1966 located behind the home a ways from Billy and Donald Moore. Donald would have been 9 years old the next day on July 1, 1966. They were at the gravel pit hunting frogs some 8 feet from the water's edge when the boys were pitched into the water when the earth underneath gave way plunging them into the water. Walking with them was another brother, Ron, 14 and a friend, Dan Perfitt, 17. They said the earth suddenly fell apart plunging William and the Perfitt boy also into the pit full of water. Perfitt was bringing William into shore on his back when the youngest boy Donald jumped into help. The Perfitt boy said William immediately let go of him and went after his younger brother Donald, who didn't know how to swim and never came back to the surface. Ron also jumped into the pit in an attempt to fine one or both of the boys but had to give up. Billy died while trying to save his brother. Police Chief Stoltz surmises that the two boys became trapped in the sand and couldn't struggle free. Perfitt also was trapped in the sand up to his hips but was able to get free. Nine skin divers were sent to the scene. They almost had given up hope of finding the boys when they discovered them some 30 feet from shore in about 20 feet of water at about 1:50 a.m. Friday. The accident happened at 7:50 p.m. Thursday with police summoned at about 8:20 p.m. Funeral services were held at the Jewett Funeral Home of Mason on Tuesday, July 5, 1966 and burial in Maple Ridge Cemetery, Holt, MI. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ingham/photos/tombstones/mapleridge/moore105439nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb