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Submitted: 5/30/21 • Approved: 6/1/21 • Last Updated: 6/4/21 • R422940-G0-S3
September 15, 1928-September 27, 1944
Son of Mr. & Mrs. Ben Crump
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Ben Crump, Jr., 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Crump of Sanford, died late yesterday afternoon at North Plains Hospital as the result of injuries received when his car caught fire in the highway between Borger and Sanford.
Details of the tragedy remained the mystery they were yesterday, as no local officials had even been notified of the accident this morning and no witnesses were available fo questioning.
All that ould [sic] be learned by the reporter, with any degree of certainty, was that young Crump was driving the family car between here and Sanford late Wednesday night when it caught fire, with the origin apparently in the muffler. A drilling crew near-by reportedly saw the car in flames and rushed the critically burned boy to the local hospital, where he died last evening.
The assumption seems to follow that Crump was trapped in the flames and must have been dragged from the burning car by a member of the drilling crew. No fire alarm was turned in.
The youth is survived by his parents; three sisters, Mrs. Bernice Josefy, Granfield, Okla., Mrs. Marie Kelly, Sanford, Mrs. Bonnie Kurtzsinger, Kirkland, Wash.; and a brother, Jim Thomas of Sanford.
Arrangement are pending at the Blackburn-Shaw-Powell Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Thursday, September 28, 1944, Page 1)
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Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. yesterday for Ben Crump, Jr., who died Wednesday in a local hospital. Services were held at the Nazarene Church under the direction of the Blackburn-Shaw-Powel Funeral Home with the Rev. Amos R. Meador, officiating.
Crump is survived by has [sic] parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Crump, Sr., of Sanford; one brother, Jim Thompson, also of Sanford; and three sisters, Bernice Joefy of Granfield, Okla., Bonnie Curtsinger of Kirkland, Wash., and Marie Kelly of Sanford.
Pallbearers were Paul Packebush, Clinton Williams, Donald Williams, Babe Prichard, J.W. Snyder and Dickey Manning.
Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, October 1, 1944)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ben Crump Jr.
Death Date: 27 Sep 1944
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 43479
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Ben Crump Junior
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1928
Birth Place: Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Sanford, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Ben Crump Senior
Mother: Mary Thomas
Age at Death: 16
Death Date: 27 Sep 1944
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/30/21
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Record #: 422940