Sussex-Halifax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Puryear, Willie P. Sr., 1966 

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WILLIE PAYTON PURYEAR 

WILLIE P. PURYEAR KILLED SUDDENLY IN FREAK ACCIDENT 

  Willie Peyton Puryear, 49, lost his life Monday in a freak accident while 
returning home from work at Luter Packing Co., Smithfield.  The Wakefield 
man died instantly when a brace fell off a passing log truck and pierced 
through the windshield of his car.

  Puryear’s car and the empty log truck were passing on a straight slight 
grade of State Rt. 620, three miles north of Ivor when a chain-held pipe at 
the rear of the truck loosened and fell on the Puryear car.  The pipe, one 
of several on the truck’s bed side, was used to hold logs.

  A passenger, William Brown, also of Wakefield, was taken to Obici Memorial 
Hospital, Suffolk, with a possible broken arm.  Brown told investigating 
state trooper V.L. Walker that he saw the pipe falling and ducked.

  A funeral service was held Wednesday, December 14, at Purviance Funeral 
Chapel with burial in Wakefield Cemetery.

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WILLIE PAYTON PURYEAR, SR. 

  Willie Payton Puryear, Sr.  49 of Wakefield died Monday, December 12 
instantly of multiple skull fractures as a result of a freak accident while 
enroute home from his work in Smithfield.  The accident occurred near Ivor on 
St. Route 620 when a metal brace came loose from a truck and went through the 
windshield of his car.

  He was a native of Halifax Co., the son of the late James T. Puryear and 
Mrs. Nannie Chandler Puryear of Ingram, Va.  He was a member of Wakefield 
Baptist Church secretary of its Sunday school, a former teacher and Deacon of 
the church.  He had served enlistments in both the U.S. Army and Navy and was 
a foreman in the Luter Packing Co., in Smithfield.

  Besides his mother, he is survived by his wife, Bernice Bailey Puryear and 
a son, W. Payton Puryear, Jr. of the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Sill, 
Oklahoma.  He is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Caleb A. Williams of 
Wilson, Mrs. Sydner W. Bane of Nathalie, Mrs. David L. Henderson of Vernon 
Hill, and Mrs. Easley L. Moore of Richmond; three brothers, Stephen J. Puryear 
of Waldorf, Md., Andrew T. Puryear of Halifax and R. Lewis Puryear of Clinton, 
Md.

  Services were held Wednesday, December 14 at 3:30 p.m.at Purviance Funeral 
Chapel with Rev. Donald Anderson officiating.  Burial was in the Wakefield 
Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Alvin Skinner, Edward O’Berry, Robbie Owen, B.F. Ellis, Ed 
Carter Nettles, William Jenkins, Purnell Parsons and Charles Traylor.


Willie Payton PURYEAR, Sr., of Wakefield, Luter foreman, Army & Navy veteran, 
b. 24 Dec 1916, Halifax Co., killed in accident 12 Dec 1966, near Ivor, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 14 Dec 1966, 
Purviance Funeral Home obits 

*Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

The application for a military marker states he served on the "USS Conyngham" 
   in WW-II. 

His widow's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1978) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/p660b1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in Ingraham Christian Church Cemetery, Ingraham, 
   Halifax Co. 


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