Cranmore - Melvin
MELVIN CRANMORE
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 7 December 1968 p 1
Army Pvt. Melvin L. Cranmore Jr., 17, 601 Kentucky St., died early Saturday morning in Bliss Hospital, Ft. Beaumont, Tex., of injuries sustained in a traffic accident a week earlier. Pvt. Cranmore had been stationed at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., where the accident occurred. He had been transferred to Bliss Hospital shortly thereafter. Word received here at the time indicated his condition was critical. He had been reportedly paralyzed from the neck down. Pvt. Cranmore had entered the Army in May of this year. He had attended Turkey Run High School. He was born Dec. 17, 1950, in Crawfordsville, a son of Melvin and Maxine Shelton Cranmore. Surviving are his father; his mother, Mrs. Maxine Moore of Crawfordsville; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shelton of Crawfordsville; great-grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Banta of Crawfordsville; grandmother; Mrs. Florence Meade of Covington; six brothers, Donald, Darrell, Monty, Timmy, Danny and William, all of Crawfordsville; a sister, Teresa of Crawfordsville, and a half brother, Chuck Moore of Crawfordsville. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bright Funeral Home here with Rev. Guy Tremaine of Waynetown officiating. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery near Elmdale where military graveside rites will be conducted. Friends may pay respects at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Monday.
Source: Unknown newspaper - article found in scrapbook of obituaries collected by Fauniel Hershberger, owned by Karen Zach - typed by: GA (died 6 December 1968)
Covington - Melvin L. Cranmore Jr., age 17, son of Melvin L. Cranmore Sr., of 119 Pine St., Danville, Ill., and grandson of Mrs. Florence Mead of Covington, died at 2 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6, in an Army hospital at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Tex., of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. The accident occurred Nov. 30 near Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., where he was stationed. The car he was driving first struck a horse and then a utility pole. The youth suffered spinal injuries and was paralyzed from his neck to his waist, including his arms. The youth's father of Danville, Ill., and his mother, Mrs. Maxine Moore of Crawfordsville, were with him at the hospital. He lived just a week after the accident. He had attended Danville High School and had been in the Army since last April. Surviving, in addition to his father and his mother, are: twin brothers, Donald and Darrell Cranmore of Ladoga; a sister, Terresa Ann Cranmore, also of Ladoga; his grandmother, Mrs. Mead of Covington; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shelton of Crawfordsville; his step-mother of Danville, Ill., and one step-brother. Several aunts and uncles also survive. Mrs. O. E. (Bertha) Lape of near Covington is his great aunt. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today, Dec. 11, at Bright Funeral Home in Crawfordsville. The Rev. Guy E. Tremaine officiated. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery, near Elmdale.
A former Danville resident, Melvin L. Cranmore Jr., 17, son of Melvin L. Cranmore Sr., of 119 Pine, died Saturday morning in an Army hospital at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Tex., of injuries received in an auto accident. The accident happened Nov. 30 near Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., where he was stationed. The auto he was driving first struck a horse and then a utility pole. He received spinal injuries. He had been in the Army since April. He had attended Danville High School. Surviving besides the father are his mother, Mrs. Maxine Moore of Crawfordsville, Ind.; twin brothers, Donald and Darrell Cranmore of Ladoga, Ind., and a sister, Terresa Ann Cranmore of Ladoga. The body will be sent to the Bright Funeral Home in Crawfordsville. Arrangements are incomplete.
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