Courtesy of the Tishomingo County Historical & Genealogical Society

TCHGS NEWSLETTER TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT
Project Volunteers: Betty Marlar, Cindy Nelson, RaNae Vaughn
Transcribed by RaNae Vaughn from the Vidette (Iuka, Miss.), No. 16, dated November 6, 1958.
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ROY T. MAXWELL
DIED FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN TRUCK ACCIDENT IN N.C.
Funeral services were conducted on Sunday, October 26, 1958, for Roy T. Maxwell at Church of
Christ in Iuka. Bro. Jimmy Moffett of Memphis conducted. Roy was in a truck accident in
Wilmington, N.C., on October 21 and died on October 23 suffering from injuries received in the
wreck.
Roy was born near Iuka in 1925, moving to Bolivar County in 1930, returning to Iuka several
years later where he resid4ed until 1942 when he moved to Memphis where he resided at the time
of his death. He was a member of the Church of Christ, attended school in Gunnison, Miss., and
married Miss Louise Atkins of Mathiston, Miss., in 1948. He was a truck driver.
Survivors, other than his wife, are two daughters, Vicki and Debra, all of Memphis; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Maxwell of Iuka; two brothers, J. H. Maxwell of Iuka, and S/Sgt.
J. C. Maxwell of the Air Force, stationed in Harlington, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Edward Morgan
of Gunnison, Miss.; a host of other relatives and friends.
Among those from out of town attending the funeral were H. R. Whiteside, Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Luie Whitaker, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Whitaker and daughter, Horris Whitaker,
Mrs. Dortha Romando, all of Gunnison, Miss.; many from Memphis, Tenn.; Chicago, Ill.;
Birmingham, Jasper, Mobile and Sheffield, Ala.; Houston, Texas; Cherokee, Ala.; Reform, Miss.;
Blytheville, Ark.; Red Bay, Ala.; Fulton and Belmont, Miss.; and Sikeston, Mo.
Internment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Cousins served as pallbearers.
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MISS SALLIE GARNER DIES IN BIRMINGHAM
Funeral services for Miss Sallie Garner, 93 years of age, were held Tuesday morning at
11 o’clock at Browns Service Chapel in Tuscumbia, Ala. Rev. Wendell Klein officiated with
burial in the family cemetery south of Barton, Ala.
Miss Garner, a native of Barton, has made her home the past 3 years with a niece, Mrs. W. F.
Weatherwax, in Birmingham. She has been hospitalized the past month with a broken hip
suffered in a fall and died Sunday at St. Vincents Hospital in Birmingham.
Survivors include five nieces and three nephews.