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Note: Cause of Death:<CAUS> Automobile accident REFN: 96 Mandy, her son Jim; her daughter, Rose Marie Walker; Rose's two daughters, Anita and Novella were all killed in a car wreck on Navoo Road in Bogota, TN (Dyer Co.) on March 11, 1968. Jim was driving. 1920 Dyer Co. Federal Census - Micro film T625-1739 ED 35-39 Volume 23 ED 36 Sheet 9 Lines 23-27 Dwelling: #151 Number of family in order of visitation: 154 Schoolfield, Jennie Head of Household Home: Rent Female White age at last birthday:43 Widow Able to read: yes Able to write: yes B-TN F-TN M-TN Able to speak English: yes Trade.....of work done: Labrour Industry,......in which at work: General Farm Employer, salary, or wage worker....W Schoolfield, Mary Daughter F W 14 S attended school since 9/1/1919: yes Able to read: yes Able to write: yes B-TN F-TN M-TN Work: None Schoolfield, Mandy Daughter F W 11 S Y N N B-TN F-TN M-TN Green, Ethel Daughter F W 21 WI N Y Y B-TN F-TN M-TN able to speak English: Y Labrour General Farm Employer: Own Accord Number of Farm Schedule: 140 Green, J. W. Grandson M W 4 9/12 S N N N B-TN F-TN M- TN STATE GAZETTE Dyersburg, Tenn., Tuesday Afternoon, March 12, 1968 FOUR MEMBERS OF FAMILY DIE IN COLLISION Two Other Persons Critical, Three in Serious Condition Four member of a Dyer County family died in a traffic accident Monday afternoon. Killed in a two-car crash on U. S. 78 north of here were, Mrs. Mandy Climer 60, her daughter, Mrs. Rosie Walker, 26 and Mrs. Walker's two daughters, Novella Ann 5 and Anita Rose, 4 all of Bogota. Injured in the car in which the victims were riding were three of Mrs. Climer's sons, Jimmy 20, listed in critical condition at Parkview Hospital here; Jerry 15 and Duane, 18, both in serious condition. Also injured were Mrs. Doris Childress, 39, driver of the other car, and Mrs. Shaw Ann Cook 34, both of Ridgely. Mrs. Cook was listed in critical condition in a Memphis hospital. Mrs. Childress was in serious condition. Shefiff John Cribbs said the convertable in which the four persons killed were riding "just flew all to pieces." He said six of the seven persons in the car were thrown from the vehicle. Cribbs quoted a witness, Edward McCullum of Memphis as saying the car driven by Jimmy Climer went out of control on the bluff just south of the Obion River Bridge and skidded sideways into the southbound car driven by Mrs. Childress. Investigators said the accident occurred in light rain showers. STATE GAZETTE Dyersburg, Tenn., Tuesday Afternoon, March 12, 1968 RITES HERE FOR TRAFFIC VICTIMS Combined Services For Two Women and Two Young Girls Combined funeral services will be held here for four members of a Bogota community family who were fatally injured in a two-car collision on rain-slick Highway 78 shortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon. The services for the two women and two young girls will be held at two o'clock tomorrow, Wednesday, at Curry's Chapel here. The Reverend Leonard Ballinger will officiate and burial will be in Neeley's Chapel Cemetery on the Nauvoo to Lenox road. J. W. Curry and Son will have charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Mandy Schofield Climer was 60 and the widow of Will Climer, who died in 1957. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Schofield. She is survived by seven sons, Pete Climer, Route 1 Newbern, Johnny Climer, Jimmy Climer, Duane Climer, Jerry Climer, Gene Climer, all at home at Bogota, and James Maness, Route 1 Newbern; a sister Mrs. Ida Vernon, Trimble; and 11 grandchildren. Mrs. Rosie Climer Walker, 26, was the daughter of the late Will and Mandy Schofield Climer. Her survivors are the seven brothers. Norvella Ann Walker, five and a half, was the daughter of the late Mrs. Rosie Climer Walker and Ernest Walker of West Virginia. Her only immediate survivor is her fath
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