Harvey E. Moody
1922 - 1939 (17 years)
Generation: 1
1. Harvey E. Moody was born on 12 Mar 1922 in Jessamine County, Kentucky; died on 21 May 1939 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky; was buried in Wilmore Cemetery, Wilmore, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Notes:
Wilmore Youth Hurt Fatally
Harvey E. Moody Jr. Succumbs To Injuries Received in Wreck
Harvey E. Moody Jr., 17, Wilmore high school student, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Good Samaritan hospital here of a skull fracture suffered at 9 o'clock yesterday morning when an automobile in which he was riding left the Wilmore-High Bridge road a mile from Wilmore and turned over three times.
Young Moody, passenger in a coupe driven by Franklin McMillan, 17, of Wilmore, fellow-student at the school, was thrown from the auto when it turned over. Chief of Police Taul Walker of Wilmore said. McMillan suffered cuts on the head and hip, the police chief said. He was treated by a physician at Wilmore. His condition was reported as good last night.
The youths were en route to High Bridge to get anther student at the high school, Cecil Conner, when the accident occurred, Chief Walker said. All three, member of the junior class, were to have served as ushers at baccalaureate services for the school's graduating class yesterday morning at the Wilmore Methodist Episcopal church.
Young Moody was brought to the hospital in a private ambulance.
A native of Wilmore he was a son of Harvey E. Moody Sr., mail carrier, and the late Mrs. Blanche Hagedorn Moody.
Besides his father, he is survived by four brothers, George H., Hugh M., William C., and L.B. Moody, and two sisters, Thelma Lee and Stella Frances Moody, all of of Wilmore.
The body was removed to the Guyn and Kurtz funeral home at Nicholasville, from where it will be taken to the Moody residence today. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church at Wilmore, the Rev. W.E. Travis, pastor of the Wilmore Presbyterian church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Virgil Moore, pastor of the Wilmore Methodist church. Burial will be at Wilmore.
The Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky. Monday, 22 May 1939, page 1.
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