Beckham, OK -- Michael W. Stockton  1953 - 1978

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SAYRE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13, 1978 
25-YEAR-OLD MAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT    
An automobile accident fatality occurred Tuesday at 5:45 P.M. on a County
road 1 1/2 Miles east of Sayre on a curve before entering I-40, The
Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. Lloyd L. Draper, 47, Sayre, was driving a
1978 GMC pickup-truck traveling west when he apparently swerved to miss a
Sports car traveling east. The driver of the Sports car continued on
unaware of the accident. The pickup left the road and overturned two and a
half times. A passenger, Michael W. Stockton, 25, 506 North fifth Street,
was ejected from the Pickup and was dead on arrival at Sayre Memorial
Hospital. Both pickup doors jammed and Lynn Barrel of the Fire department
freed Draper with a welding cutting torch in about 20 minutes. Draper was
hospitalized at the Sayre Hospital with a chipped vertebra and multiple
cuts and bruises. The automobile was totaled, Patrolman Billy Ray Thomas
said. The seat belts were not in use. The occupants of the pickup were
returned to Sayre from the Garth Russell farm where they had fed their
horses.