Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Charles Druce, 1926 10 Jan 2008 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ DRUCE, CHARLES (7 Jan 1926, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): CHRISTMAS MARRED BY FATAL ACCIDENT. Chas. Druce, Dill City Youth, Meets Death When Hit by Car Thursday Night. Charles Druce, an orphan youth of twenty years, who lived with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wallace, near Dill City, was run over by an unknown driver in a Ford roadster Thursday evening on Frisco avenue in Clinton about eleven o'clock. The accident occurred immediately opposite the Rialto theater and Cronicle (sic) buildings. Druce was immediately taken to the city hospital where he died a short time later, never regaining consciousness. Druce's mother had been dead for some years and his father was drowned about two years ago at the Cordell reservoir. - The Clinton Chronicle. --------------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.htm