McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    CHARLEY RAYMOND PARKS

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::Holly Creek Cemetery--Holly Creek OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper: June 4, 1931

YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED TUESDAY MORNING IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT 
NORTH OF TOWN: FUNERAL SERVICES HELD WEDNESDAY

Charley Raymond Parks, aged 20 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Parks, 
who reside in Ware addition on the Broken Bow-Idabel highway, near 
this city, was fatally injured last Tuesday morning about eleven 
o'clock when a Ford car in which he was riding was overturned 2 1/2 
miles north of Broken Bow on the Williams Highway.  He was 
immediately brought to town for medical treatment but succumbed an 
hour after reaching the city.

Young Parks, with his father and brother, George Parks, had been 
several miles north of town after a load of wood, having a trailor 
attached to the car.  Returning to this city a car driven by a negro, 
accompanied by three other negroes, came into the highway from the 
road leading to the Big Dam, which struck the Parks car knocking it 
into a ditch filled with water about three feet deep.  Charley Parks, 
who was driving the car was caught under the steering wheel and 
crushed badly.  The father and other son were able to release 
themselves from the overturned car and care for the young man who was 
so badly injured.

Mr. Parks received a dislocated shoulder, and several cuts about the 
face. George Parks was uninjured.

The negroes stopped their car a short distance from the scene and 
went back to where the car had overturned but would not assist Mr. 
Parks and his son in releasing the injured man from the car.  They 
departed from the scene of the accident without anyone knowing their 
identity and have not been apprehended.  Their car was damaged very 
little but the Parks car was completely demolished.

Funeral services for the deceased were held at the family home in 
Ware addition Wednesday afternoon by Rev. L.O. Waldon, pastor of the 
Assembly of God Church here, burial being made in the Holly Creek 
cemetery.

The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.
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