Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Slade, Garnie C., 1969 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ GARNIE CLYDE SLADE DEATH CAR - Garnie Clyde Slade, 78-year old Dendron farmer, was killed instantly Jan. 2 when the car he was driving was struck by a tractor trailer on U.S. 460 at Wakefield stoplight. Investigating Trooper J.C. Flowers said the Slade vehicle was headed east and as it was making a left turn into M.G. Service Station, was struck by the westbound tractor trailer, whose driver was charged with manslaughter. Garnie Clyde SLADE, Dendron farmer, b. 21 Oct 1888, Surry Co., killed in crash 2 Jan 1969, Hwy. 460, Wakefield, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, donated obit, posted with Find a Grave Mem. #127411486 *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt His mother, "Mollie" Mary Ida (JAMES) SLADE, is buried in Union Christian Church Cemetery. His father, Confederate veteran Peter Ruffin SLADE, was buried elsewhere in Surry Co. His widow's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1978) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/s430c2ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/s430g1ob.txt