CLEVELAND COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Billy Gene Dyer, 9 May 1965
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Billy Gene Dyer Killed In Wreck
    Billy Gene Dyer, 21 of Route 6, was killed in a motorcycle-bus collision 
at the intersection of N.C. 180 and Road 2052 about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
    Dyer, who resided with his wife and small child at Blanton Motor Court, 
was riding south on a motorcycle on N.C. 180 when a bus headed north and 
operated by Claude Arey Poston attempted a left hand turn into the M&M Service 
Station.  The motorcycle struck the door near the right front of the bus that 
is owned by Elizabeth Baptist Church.                      
    The investigating State Highway Patrol trooper said operator of both 
vehicles apparently had their vision limited by an unidentified vehicle that 
allegedly crossed N.C. 180 on Road 2052 (across from Elizabeth to Stoney 
Point) as both the bus and motorcycle approached.
    According to the trooper, there was no evidence of speeding. He said the 
motorcycle traveled only two or three feet after impact.    
    The trooper said Dyer suffered fatal head injuries. The officer added that 
the victims protective gear was crushed. The trooper quoted Poston as stating 
he had pulled the bus from Elizabeth Church (about 100 yards away) onto N.C. 
180 and did not see the motorcycle when he began his turn a few feet south of 
the intersection. Poston and his 7 year old son, Claude Jr. were the only 
occupants of the bus.
    The trooper said his investigating is continuing, and he added that a 
coroner's jury will be impounded.  
    Dyer is the sixth traffic fatality of the year in Cleveland County and the 
first since Dewey F. Tomlin was fatally injured in a Motorcycle/car accident 
March 28. Both Dyer and Tomlin were operating Yamaha motorcycles.
    An employee at Shelby Steel Products, Dyer is survived by his wife, Mrs. 
Sylvia Dean Rochester Dyer; a son Michael Gene Dyer; his mother, Mrs. Gertie 
Dyer Eades; a brother Robert Lee Dyer of Newport News, VA., a stepbrother, 
Jimmy R. Eades of U.S. Air Force; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Coster and Mrs. 
Phillip Lynch, both of Shelby; a stepsister, Mrs. Jackie Harbuck of Norfolk, 
VA.
    Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Friday in Webb Chapel at the First 
Baptist Church with Revs. Joseph McClain and Charles Summey offciating. Burial 
is to follow in Zoar Baptist Church Cemetery. The body was taken to the 217 
Suttle St. home of his mother this afternoon. Lutz-Austell Funeral Home is in 
charge of arrangements.                           

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