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Jeff Bingham Killed In Auto Wreck At Wink

Jeff Bingham, 26, a former Spur boy, was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident on the highway between Wink and Monahans. He and several companions had started from Wink to Monahans to attend a dance when the driver of the car was blinded by the lights of an approaching car, lost control, and overturned in the bar pit. Death occurred almost instantly from a fracture of the skull. Three others of the party were painfully injured but none fatally, and two escaped unhurt.

Follow a consultation with members of the family it was decided to bring the body to Spur, his boyhood home, for burial. C. Bain, a close friends of the dead youth, rode through with the corpse, arriving by train here Wednesday. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church at four-thirty in the afternoon, conducted by the pastor Rev. W.B. Vaughn, and interment was made in Spur cemetery, directed by Webber Williams.

Jeff was born at Jayton, August 2, 1908, but moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Bingham, to this community at an early age, spending his boyhood and young manhood in this community and attending the local schools. He has many friends here who are grieved over his untimely death and we join them in extending sympathy to the bereaved family.

In 1928 Jeff left Spur for Borger where he worked in the oilfields later moving to Longview and entered the tailoring business and made his home until just recently. Some two years ago he was married at Longview but following a recent estrangement from his wife he moved to Wink where he made his home with his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Miller, until the time of the unhappy accident which caused his death.

Surviving are his wife, father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Bingham, a brother, Chalk Bingham, all of Longview and a sister, Mrs. Miller of Wink. All were present at the funeral.

©The Texas Spur, October 21, 1936

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