Obituary of Walter Padgett ~ 1939

Source: Wallace Enterprise Nov 30 1939

One Person Killed And Score Injured In Series Of Wrecks Occurring In 
County Recently 

Walter Padgett Killed Instantly In Auto Wreck Near Warsaw On Sunday 
Morning; Four Beulaville People Injured In Head-On Collision Of Trucks On 
Hallsville Road Monday Morning 

Five Hurt As Auto Wrecks Near Bowden 

Score Persons Involved In Wreck Saturday On Pink Hill Highway 

A series of automobile wrecks in Duplin county during the past week, 
officially ushering in the holiday season, took one life and injured a 
score of others more or less seriously.
The one fatality occured on Sunday morning about 4:30 between Warsaw and 
Kenansville when the car in which Tom Parker of near Wallace and Willie 
Padgett of the Deep Bottom section of the county were riding overturned. 
Padgett suffered a fractured skull and a broken neck and died instantly, 
according to Coroner Jones' investigation. Parker was only slightly 
injured, it was said.
Both men were reported to have been drunk when the car overturned.
Funeral rites were conducted for Padgett on Monday afternoon at 2 p. m., 
with burial following in the Powell cemetery on Wallace Route 4.
Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Padgett, two brothers, Elmer 
and Charlie Padgett, and four sisters, Mrs. Nellie Brown of Wilmington, 
and Lerate and Virginia Padgett of the home.





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