Services Held at Ralls Monday for Wreck Victim
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday for Pvt. Wade Wesley Pennell, 19, who was killed when the late-model car in which he was riding overturned several times on a dirt road two miles west of the Savage community south of Ralls Saturday night.
Pennell stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Okla., was the son of Mr. and Mrs. I.S. Pennell of the Canyon Valley community. Another youth, Billy Joe Rice, 19, of Ralls, who was in the car with Pennell, was released from the Ralls Clinic Sunday after treatment for minor injuries.
The two youths were riding in a car belonging to Rice when the vehicle plunged through a dead end on a hard dirt road, overturned several times and finally came to rest in a plowed field. A doctor said Pennell's neck was broken. The youth was home on a week-end pass, relatives said.
The Rev. James Abernethy, pastor, officiated at funeral services in the First Baptist Church at Ralls, assisted by Rev. G.T. Purcer, formerly of Ralls. Burial was in the Ralls Cemetery.
Survivors other than the parents include a sister, Mrs. Connie Steel of Ralls; four brothers, Tom, Pat, Kenneth and Johnny, all of Canyon Valley; and two grandmothers, Mrs. B.W. Pennell of Post and Mrs. Joe Swift of Wichita Falls.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, January 21, 1954
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