DAYTON BEACH EVENING NEWS
Daytona Beach, Florida
Monday, October 1, 1973
SEVILLE MAN, 84, KILLED BY LOCOMOTIVE
SEVILLE - An 84-year-old Seville man became Volusia County's 66th traffic fatality of the year when he was struck this morning by a train on the Coast Line Railroad tracks near his home.
Jim P. Gunter of First Baptist Church Road, longtime Seville resident, was killed instantly as he stood on the tracks at about 8:55 a.m. and was hit by the locomotive, according to Highway Patrol Trooper M. E. Leggett.
The trooper said Gunter had left his home this morning to search for his cat. He found the cat, dead, in the middle of the tracks, where the animal had apparently been struck by an earlier train, Leggett said.
According to the FHP report, Gunter was facing south on the tracks, in the process of picking up his dead pet, when struck by the southbound train. Neighbors told Leggett that Gunter was nearly deaf and apparently did not hear the approaching locomotive.
A retired railroad man, Gunter is survived by his wife and a son, Raymond.
DAYTONA BEACH MORNING JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Tuesday, October 2, 1973
GUNTER SERVICES
Services for Jim Penn Gunter, 84, Seville, are pending at Clayton Frank and Son Funeral Home, Crescent City.
Mr., Gunter was killed yesterday when struck by a locomotive near his home. Born in Pensacola, Mr. Gunter had lived in Seville most of his life. He was a retired section foreman for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad.
'Survivor his wife, Marie, of Seville; two sons, Raymond and J.P. Jr., both of Winter Haven; one daughter, Mrs. C.W. Mew, Seville; six grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services for Mr. Gunter will at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the First Baptist Seville, with the Rev. Al Holley, pastor, and Dr. Earl Joiner of Stetson University's department of religion, officiating.
Burial will be in Seville Cemetery.
