The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, September 1, 1927
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BODY OF BOY KILLED IN ACCIDENT BURIED
Denison, August 30 - The body of Forrest McKemy, aged 11 years, arrived on the Texas Special over the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Monday evening from Austin.  The body was accompanied by the father, Charles
McKemy, formerly a city commissioner and railroad engineman of Denison, now labor commissioner for the state,
and a number of friends.  The mother is in Carlsbad, New Mexico, being ill and could not come to Denison.
The lad was fatally injured Saturday afternoon near Mason, Texas, while accompanying his father to Carlsbad to visit
Mrs. McKemy.  Mr. McKemy was driving his car and started to swing around a large truck; another car, coming towards him, swung on the wrong side of the road, striking the car in which Mr. McKemy and his son were riding, turning the McKemy car over.  The boy was pinned under his father's car, the automobile top resting on his back.
He rushed to Mason for medical attention, but this proved of no avail, and the child died at 2:30 Sunday morning.
Rev. John L. Andrews, pastor of the Southside Christian Church, and Dr. J.S. Hodges, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, were in charge of the funeral services at 3 o'clock this afternoon.  Six boy playmates who attended the Lamar school with John Forrest, acted as pall bearers.  They were Jim Annesley, Rex Webster, Sidney Tipton, John W. Bengle, Albert LaLonde and Dan Canafax.
Interment took place at Fairview Cemetery.
Several Whitewright relatives and friends attended the funeral service.  The youth was a nephew of Mrs. J.B. Burris, northeast of town, and Mr. and Mrs. R.K. McMurry of Ladonia, who was visiting here when the fatal accident happened.