THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, March 4, 1954

 

Funeral services were held Monday in Belle Glade for Charles Buckles and Jack Carnes, who were drowned in Lake Okeechobee Tuesday of last week while fishing.

Charles is the 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Buckles, former residents of Bunnell. Mr. Carnes is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Buckles.

Young Buckles had served in the U. S. Air Force for three years and had just returned to the States from a tour of duty in Korea. He was stationed at the Nashville, Tenn. Air Force Base and was spending a 30-day furlough in Belle Glade with his parents.

Mr. Carnes, who was 24 years old, had just completed a tour of duty with the Army in Germany and had received his discharge from the Army two weeks before the accident. He and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Buckles of Bunnell, were visiting the Buckles family in Belle Glade.

Mr. Buckles and Mr. Carnes were fishing in a small boat in Lake Okeechobee all day Tuesday and when they failed to return home late in the afternoon a search was begun. The body of young Buckles was found Friday and Mr. Carnes on Saturday. Mr. Buckles is survived by his parents and two sisters, Mrs. Juanita Miller and Mrs. Dorothy Carnes.

In addition to his wife Dorothy, of Belle Glades, Mr. Carnes is survived by his parents and a sister in Atlanta, Georgia.