Beckham Co. OK        CLIFFORD W. HINDMAN
                                      
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   *NOTE* HINDMAN,W.CLIFFORD b.1909 d.13 May 1930 s/o C.E. buried Carter
   cemetery*Carter Beckham Co.,Ok.,
   
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   Word reached Carter Tuesday of the death of Clifford HINDMAN,son of
   Mr.and Mrs.C.E.HINDMAN,who was attending college at Wichita
   Falls,Texas.
   
   Clifford was a 20 year old Junior college football player and was
   paying his way through college by working on the fire department and
   the college cafeteria.Early Tuesday morning he and two others were
   called to extingguish a burning automobile.At a low place in the
   pavement where water stood,the truck skidded,struck the curbstone and
   turned over.The other two youths were thrown clear of the truck while
   Mr.HINDMAN was caught beneath it.He was dead when aid reached the fire
   truck.The body was shipped back here for burial.
   
   Besides his parents he is survived by a sister,Miss Sadie Belle
   HINDMAN;an Aunt,Mrs.L.A.HACKER of Vernon;and five cousins,Jim JACKSON
   of Carter,Mrs.Carter HOWARD of Wichita Falls and Mrs. J.V.
   RAMSEY,Chris HACKER and Dan HACKER,all of Vernon,Texas.
   
   VERNON GRADUATE*Hindman was a graduate in the 1929 class of the Vernon
   High School.He entered the junior college at Wichita Falls as a
   freshman last fall.He played tackle on the Indian squad and center on
   the basketball team.Coach E.A.BAGGETT,with whom the young man had been
   intimately connected in his athletic activities,accompanied the body
   here for the funeral services which were held at the Carter cemetery
   Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
   
   CARD OF THANKS* We wish to try to express our Thanks to our many
   friends and relatives for their many acts of kindness in this,the
   darkest day of our lives,in the death of our son,Clifford,who went to
   his death in line of duty So brave and unafraid as a fireman at
   Wichita Falls,Texas atipification of all of his life deeds,never
   knowing fear where the Y?t the loving kindness of our friend is balm
   to our breaking hearts and in time it may partly heal the wounds and
   give us strength to go on to the end which won't be long.
   
   Mr.and Mrs. C.E.HINDMAN
   
   16 May 1930 The Carter Express