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Submitted: 8/8/22 • Approved: 8/8/22 • Last Updated: 8/11/22 • R530423-G0-S3
May 17, 1946-December 7, 1959
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. for David Randall [sic] Price, 13, known to his friends as Randy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Price of the Black Community from the Sixth Street Church of Christ in Friona.
Young Price was killed immediately in a one car accident about 7:30 p.m. Monday night as he and a friend, Ricky Bob Coon, 12, also of the Black Community, were returning home from a Boy Scout meeting at the Black Community House.
The two boys were going west on a dirt road that parallels Highway 60 after leaving the regular Monday night scout meeting.
According to investigating officer Charles Skinner of the Texas Highway Patrol the car, driven by Coon, went out of control and skidded down the road overturning in a barrow ditch.
Young Coon was thrown from the car and wasn't seriously injured.
He made his way to the home of the Dick Rockey's, about 300 yards from the scene and summoned aid.
The Rockeys in turn notified authorities and summoned Vernon Johnson of Claborn Funeral Home in Friona to the scene.
Justice of Peace Thelma Jones reported young Price as killed in the crash following the night's investigation.
Randy was born May 17, 1946 and was a member of the eighth grade in Friona Schools and a member of Boy Scout Troop 206 of Black.
He is survived by his parents, and one brother, Jeffrey Don, 7, of the home; also two grandmothers, Mrs. J.E. Shackelford of Friona and Mrs. W.H. Price of
Ector.
Pallbearers included Roy Lovett, John Hays, J.R. Braxton, Tom Jarhoe, Dempsey Watkins and Guy Riggs. Funeral services were conducted by M.B. McKinney of the Sixty Street Church of Christ.
Interment was in the West Park Cemetery at Hereford under direction of Claborn Funeral Home.
(Published in The Friona Star, Volume 36, Number 10, Section 1, Thursday, December 10, 1959, Page 1)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: David Randal Price
Date of Birth: 17 May 1946
Gender: Male
Birth County: Deaf Smith
Father's name: Ralph Evans Price
Mother's name: Maxine Shackelford
Roll Number: 1946_0009
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: David Randall Price
Death Date: 7 Dec 1959
Death County: Parmer
Certificate: 73254
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: David Randall Price
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian (White)
Age: 13
Birth Date: 17 May 1946
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Precinct 1, Parmer, Texas, USA
Death Date: 7 Dec 1959
Death Place: Rural Precinct 1, Parmer, Texas, USA
Father: Ralph Price
Mother: Maxine Shackelford
Contributed on 8/8/22 by neldapat
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