THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, May 11, 1967

Rubin Edwards, 61, Bunnell, was killed in an auto accident at the intersection of US Highway 1 and State Road 13, about four tenths of a mile north of here Saturday morning at 7:40 a. m.

Mr. Edwards was traveling north on US 1 and proceeded to make a left turn onto Road 13 and drove his vehicle into the path of a car traveling south on US 1. The southbound car was driven by Harold Eugene Thygesen, 37, Jacksonville.

Mr. Edwards was thrown from his vehicle and died instantly. Thygesen was treated at the Bunnell General Hospital and was released.

Born in Hickory Flat, Miss., Mr. Edwards moved to Bunnell 16 years ago from DeLand. He was a sawyer with the Wadsworth Lumber Company and a member of the First Baptist Church of Bunnell.

Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church of Bunnell at 2:00 Monday afternoon with the Rev. Charles Anders officiating. Burial was in Espanola Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife Mary; .a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jane Metts, Bunnell; three sons, Roger, Bunnell; Kenneth, Woodbury, N. J.; and Clovis, Miami; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Hudspath, Ashlon, Miss. and Mrs. Christine Wilson, Hickory Flat, and Mrs. Lorene Stanton, Hickory Flat; three brothers, Earl, Marietta, Ga.; Leland, Dirsburg, Tenn. and Laymon, Hickory Flat; and twelve grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Jack Clegg, Richard Yelvington, P. D. Pearson, Bill Fryman, Ferris Solomon and Jerry Burnsed.

Craig Funeral Home of Bunnell was in charge of arrangements.