Guilford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Pickard, Franklin Theodore 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net January 9, 2014, 9:41 am THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 05-01-1953, P. 1 FRANKLIN THEODORE PICKARD WELDER DIES FROM INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN HIT ON HEAD While at work last Friday on a bleaching plant being built for Camp Manufacturing Company, Franklin Theodore Pickard, 37, of Norfolk, a welder employed by the Tidewater Construction co., contractors, was struck on the head by a piece of falling steel, receiving injuries from which he died on Sunday in Raiford Memorial Hospital, where he was taken after the accident. The object alleged to have struck Mr. Pickard was a dolly bar, used for backing up rivets, and weighed about 15 pounds. A native of High Point, N.C., Mr. Pickard had resided in Norfolk for the past 20 years. He was the husband of Mrs. Mary Pearl Pearson Pickard of Norfolk, and the son of Mrs. Betty Craven Pickard of Jamestown, N.C., and the late Irving J. Pickard. In additional to his wife and mother he is survived by a daughter, Miss Olivia Pickard of Norfolk; four sisters, Mrs. R.M. Thornton and Mrs. J.B. Bodenheimer of High Point, N.C., Mrs. O.J. Edwards of Jamestown, N.C., and Mrs. E.L. Shoaf of Thomasville, N.C.; and four brothers, B.M. Pickard and C.E. Pickard of Jamestown, N.C., G.M. Pickard of New Bern, N.C., and J.E. Pickard of Norfolk. Funeral services for Mr. Pickard were conducted at the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartment, Norfolk, on Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, followed by interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/obits/p/pickard2495ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb