Henry Thurman Wade

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Obituary- Wade, Henry 2

Marshal Wade killed in vacation accident

CLOSED FOR FUNERAL
Rossville business places closed for one hour Thursday morning in respect to Henry Wade whose funeral was held at 9 am.


The Wade family was vacationing in Texas visiting relatives when the accident occurred Wade had been the Marshal here for nearly four years and was on his annual leave of duty. Horace Holder, of this city was temporarily on duty as Marshal during the vacation time.

Funeral services were held today at 9 am at the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church with burial in Rossville Cemetery. The Rosary was recited at 8 pm Wednesday at the Hurley Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Howard Stiles, Laverne Spears, Chris Viergever, Horace Holder, Homer E. Harris, and Dorrell Harris. The Rev. A. H. Shulz. SJ, was in charge of the service.

He was born October 4, 1903, at Rossville. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Wade: a daughter, Zora Wade, and a son, Henry Wade Jr., all of the home; two stepsons, Ira Joe Seay, Fort Worth, Texas, and Leroy Seay, Midland, Texas; and two brothers, Ben Wade, Rossville, and James Wade, Ogden, Utah.

Henry T. Wade, 53, marshal of
Rossville and deputy sheriff of
Shawnee County, was fatally injured Saturday in a head-on collision in a borrow ditch 14 miles south of Lamesa, Texas, on State Highway 349. Eight others in the collision were injured including slight injuries to Mrs. Wade and two children.

Texas highway patrolmen said the car in which Wade was riding swung out into the ditch when its driver saw he couldn’t make it around a truck The driver of the oncoming car had the same idea as he sought, to avoid the smashup.

Marshal Wade died in Lamesa General Hospital shortly after arrival. The car in which he was riding was driven by his stepson, Lee Roy Seay, 27, of Midland, Texas. Also in the Seay car were Mrs. Seay, 25. and their son Johnny Lee. 13 months, and Mrs. Wade, his son, Henry T. Wade Jr., 9, and daughter, Zora Faye Wade, 15.

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