Beckham County, OK - Obits: Bob/Robert Buster, 1934
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Bob Buster and Annie Britt married 1 nov 1928 in Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma. 
In additon to the daughter,Geneva- they also had a son named Bobby Jo Buster. 
He was born 17 February 1935 in oklahoma. He died in Santa Clara County, Ca on 
7 June 1993. Bob died 3 months before Bobby was born in an accident 18 Sept 1934. 
The obituary states that Bob Buster, aged 25 years, was instantly killed Tuesday 
morning when an International truck loaded with 3500 pounds of broom corn passed 
over the right side of his body as he fell beneath the wheels of the moving truck. 
The accident occured about five miles north and west of Sayre on Highway 41 about 
10 o'clock yesterday morning. L. Hagerman who lives near Sweetwater was driving 
the truck and Will Moore and a man named Barnes were riding in the cab with him. 
Buster signaled to the driver for a ride but Hagerman did not slow down as he was 
approaching a hill and as he passed Buster made a grab for the side of the truck 
and started to climb aboard. He lost his footing and fell beneath the truck. The 
wheels of the loaded vechicle struck him in the groin on the right side and passed 
over his body crushing it and breaking his neck as the wheel passed over his 
shoulder near the head. He was dead when the men on the truck reached him. Officers 
at Sayre were notified and Lawson Gillum, under sheriff and Sam Flynn, Chief of 
Police of Elk City, who was attending court at Sayre went to the scene of the 
accident. A coroner's jury was empaneled at the scene of the accident and returned 
a verdict that Buster came to his death thru unavoidable accident and absolved the 
driver of all blame. The body was taken to the Sayre undertaking establishment. 
Buster lived in Sayre until last spring when he moved to the Poarch Tourist Camp. 
He had lived in the state 27 years and in the county for a year and a half. Buster 
is survived by his wife Anna Britt Buster and a five year old daughter Geneva. 
They had been living 2 miles west of Murphy's gin. He was empolyed on the Pera 
project near Sweetwater, Oklahoma. He is survived by his mother and three relatives 
who live on a farm near Sawyer. 
From the Elk City Morning Times , Wednesday, Sept 19 , 1934