Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Parker, James Earl 1934
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Suffolk News-Herald, Volume 12, Number 29, 24 April 1934, P.1
JAMES EARL PARKER

Boy Meets His Death Under Wheels of Truck Driven By His Father

Six-Year-Old James Parker, of the Sunbury Section, Eager to Greet Parent, Is 
Fatally Injured Yesterday.

Running to greet, his father as he drove into the yard with a truck load of 
fertilizer at sundown yesterday, the tiny foot of six year old James Earl Parker 
missed the running board and his body was crushed under heavy wheels. The 
father, W. K. Parker, well- known farmer of the Sunbury section in Gates County, 
did not see; the child, who ran toward the truck from the right side. Mr. Parker 
did not know the lad was under the wheels until an older son screamed the 
tragedy. The injured child was brought to Lakeview hospital here for treatment, 
but internal injuries were so severe that he could not survive them. He at 8:30 
p. m.

Surviving the child are his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Parker, two sisters, 
Elizabeth and Jean, and two brothers, Kreglow and Fred, all of Sunbury; his 
paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R, Parker, of Sunbury, and his maternal 
grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Holland, of Holland. Funeral services will be held at 
Oak Grove Christian church tomorrow at 3 p. m. with the Rev. J. M. Roberts 
conducting the rites. Burial will be in the family cemetery near Sunbury.


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