THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, September 13, 1956

 

Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning from the First Baptist Church of Bunnell for Eugene Todd who was killed in an automobile accident about 5:30 Saturday after­noon on the overpass of Route 100.

Young Todd was a student in Bunnell High School last year and was 16 years old.

He was riding in an automobile with Quartermaster Marvin Bratcher when the car failed to make the east curve on the overpass of State Highway 100.

Todd was pronounced dead upon arrival of a doctor and Bratcher was carried by ambulance to the Flagler Clinic and Hospital and later moved to the naval hospital in Jacksonville where his condition is reported serious.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Sallie Todd of Bunnell; his father, Henry J. Todd of Barberville; one brother, James Todd, with the U. S. Army at Ft. Story. Also surviving are his grandmother, Mrs. Ollie Morgan of Claxton, Ga.; also two aunts and seven, uncles.

Rev. E. W. Ware conducted the funeral services and Craig Funeral Home of St. Augustine was in charge of arrangements.

Burial was in the Espanola Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were his classmates: Jerry Lane, Jerry Cauley, Louis Friedman, Gary Gresham, Billy Deen, and Herbert Rodgers.