| Obit For | Shirden Bailey |
|---|---|
| Headline | Fatality Shirden Bailey - YOUTH IN CASSVILLE CRASH IS IMPROVED. |
| Text | John Hood remains Serious, However - Funeral Plans Made for Two Killed in Collision.
Cassville, Mo., Aus. 27. - The condition of John Hood, 19 years old, who was seriously injured in the auto-truck head-on collision south of here Tuesday afternoon, was reported as improved by his physician, Dr. George W. Newman, at the Barry County hospital tonight and the completion of funeral arrangements for the two men fatally injured in the same accident has been announced. Services for Charles Edwin Laney, 38 years old, of near Exeter, will be held at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the Exeter Baptist church by the Rev. Charles Vanzandt. Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery at Exeter under direction of the Koon funeral home. Rites for Shirden Bailey, 52 years old, of near Exeter, will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon in the Koon chapel here by the Rev. Francis Goodnight. Burial will in Hickman cemetery, west of Washburn. Both men, widely known farmers, were killed instantly when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a semi-trailer truck loaded with hay while passing another vehicle on the highway. They were accompanying Hood, the driver, to Cassville. J.R. Bixler of Wheaton, driver of the truck, was uninjured. Mr. Laney’s survivors are his widow, Mrs. Belvia Laney, and two sons and five daughters, Eugene, Carroll, Ellen Mae, Bonnie, Emma Faye, LaVerne and Joyce, all of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Laney of Exeter; one brother, Vernie Laney of Rocky Ford, Colo., and four sisters, Miss Alma Laney of Exeter, Mrs. Naomi Sappenfield and Mrs. Alta Utter of Shelton, Wash., and Mrs. Leona Painter of Washburn. Mr. Bailey’s survivors are his widow, Mrs. Bessie Bailey; three daughters, Mrs. Aldona Poe of Bush, Colo., Mrs. Earl Martin of Washburn and Mrs. Fred Boyer of Rogers, Ark.; five sons, Dillard and Lillard Bailey of the home, Okel Bailey of Simco, Mo., Jack Bailey of McAlester, Okla., and Blaine of Washington; three brothers and one sister. |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | JOPLIN GLOBE |
| Date | Aug. 28, 1947 |
| Death Cert Link | Laney Death Certificate
Bailey Death Certificate |
| Resource | Newspaper |
| Submitted by | James D. Day |
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