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Whitesboro



Callie Mershon Suddath
26 July 1884 - 11 January 1953

Oscar Oliver Suddath, Sr.
23 January 1878 - 20 September 1953

Oscar Oliver Suddath, Jr.
22 June 1908 - 16 October 1940

Van Wade Suddath
5 June 1906 - 13 April 1923

The Denison Press
Thursday, October 17, 1940
pg. 1

32 YEAR OLD WHITESBORO MAYOR KILLED
Whitesboro, Texas, October 17 - The death of Mayor Suddath, Jr. of Whitesboro in a Sherman hospital at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday was the second to result from an automobile accident Tuesday night when the car crashed into a bridge abutment on Hwy. 82 east of her and over turned in a ravine.
Killed outright was Harry Edward Sadler, 36, of Whitesboro, an employe of the Guy F. Atkinson company on the Denison dam project.  The two were in Mr. Suddath's car headed west, when it went out of control at Mustang creek.  Mr. Sadler's watch stopped at 9 o'clock.
Mr. Suddath received head and chest injuries and never regained consciousness.
Mr. Suddath, was was 32 years old when he was elected mayor of Whitesboro about 4 years ago, was termed Texas' youngest mayor at the time.  A son of Mr. and Mrs. O.O. Suddath of Whitesboro, he was born June 22, 1904 in Bonham.  He had resided at Whitesboro since he was a small boy with the exception of a few years spent in New York City.  He was graduated from the Whitesboro high school.



Madge Suddath Lott
25 June 1904 - 3 August 1994

Ashley Ward Lott
24 March 1904 - 16 February 1992





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