Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Worrell, Junius W., 1947 

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JUNIUS WRAY WORRELL

CAPRON FARMER DIED INSTANTLY IN TRAFFIC CRASH

J.W. WORRELL KILLED WHEN AUTOMOBILE MEETS TRUCK IN HEAD-ON COLLISION THURSDAY

   Tragedy stalked the highway again yesterday morning about 9:30 o’clock when 
the 1938 Chevrolet sedan operated by Junie Wray Worrell, prosperous farmer 
living between Boykins and Capron, undertook to pull out from behind a truck on 
route 158, a mile or more east of Capron. Coming up rapidly from the oppistie 
direction was a truck and trailer loaded with potatoes, which Mr. Worrell 
evidently did not see; for in the brief space of time required for him to turn 
to the left of the truck he sought to pass, the other truck piled into the 
Chevrolet head-on killing Mr. Worrell instantly.

   Persons hurrying to the scene of the accident, which was scene of the 
accident, which was investigated by Deputy Sheriff William A. Bell, found the 
Chevrolet almost completely demolished. Mr. Worrell’s body was badly mangled - 
both of his legs were broken, a hand was torn off, his skull was fractured and 
his face and body deeply lacerated. The driver of the truck, whose identity was 
not available before going to press, escaped the collision uninjured.

   The body of the crash victim was taken to the Purviance Funeral Home in 
Boykins. At a late hour yesterday evening funeral arrangements had not been 
completed, pending the arrival of a daughter from California. The funeral 
itself has been set for three o’clock Sunday afternoon in Boykins, and burial 
will be in Beechwood Cemetery.

   At the time of his death Mr. Worrell was 59 years of age. He was a son of 
the late Joseph K. and Alice Jones Worrell of Southampton county, a member of 
the Boykins Methodist Church and of the Courtland Masonic Lodge.

   He is survived by three sons, Ray Thomas Worrell of Murfreesboro, N.C. Rufus 
Frank Worrell of Boykins, and David Truman Worrell of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; three 
daughters, Mrs. W.J. Bryant of San Pedro, Calif., Mrs. W.S. Spitzer of Edenton, 
N.C., and Miss Mildred Worrell of Richmond; a sister, Mrs. Willie Blowe of 
Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; and three grandchildren.


[Junius "Junie" Wray WORRELL, d. 21 Aug 1947, age 59, 
 interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, plot 110), Boykins, 24 Aug 1947, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 22 Aug 1947, p. 1] 

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