 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas LOCAL MAN DIES AFTER CAR MISHAP F.W. Wharton is Believed Victim of Heart Attack F.W. Wharton, 42, 1211 N. Wood, a research chemist at Mrs. Tucker's Foods, was Grayson County's first traffic fatality of the year. Mr. Wharton died enroute to Wilson N. Jones Hospital in the Fox-Fanning ambulance after he had been found about 6:15 p.m. near his car, which had left Hwy. 75 between Howe and Van Alstyne. According to investigating officers of the sheriff's department, there were no marks on the body. Ralph Oliver, justice of the peace, said death apparently was the result of a heart attack following severe shock. Mr. Wharton was returning to Sherman, the investigating deputy, R.S. Brueggemeyer, said. The car was seen by a hitch-hiker to leave the west side of the highway, turn over in the ditch, right itself, leave the side of the road and roll over in a field. After watching the car turn over, the hitch-hiker went to Van Alstyne and notified Constable Sam York. York did not know the name of the hitch-hiker, Brueggemeyer said. The machine was only slightly damaged, he added. The investigating officer and the justice of the peace did not believe Mr. Wharton had been thrown from the vehicle. There was no mud on his clothing. There was mud on the bottom of his shoes, Oliver said, which tended to indicate Mr. Wharton had been able to get out of the machine after it came to a stand-still, right side up. Mr. Wharton, who was born in Columbia, Tennessee July 19, 1907, came to Sherman that year with his parents. He was graduated from Sherman High School and received his bachelor's degree upon graduation from Austin College in 1928. He did graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge. He had been employed by the Armour Company at Chicago before coming to Mrs. Tucker's Foods, 15 years ago. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the American Chemists Society and the Society of American Oil Chemists. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. T.A. Wharton of Sherman; 2 brothers, P.S. Wharton of Sherman and Dr. T.A. Wharton of Dallas; a sister, Mrs. Catherine Wharton Gray of Sherman; a half-brother, Dr. C.T. Wharton of Austin; 2 half-sisters, Mrs. C.E. Allen of Danville, Kentucky; and Mrs. C.T. Vinson of Barstow; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services for F.W. Wharton, 42, of 1211 N. Wood, research chemist at Mrs. Tucker's Foods, who died following an accident on Hwy. 75 Monday at 11:30 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Jack Goodykoontz, pastor, conducted. Pallbearers were C.T. Wharton, Jr., of Ft. Worth, Dr. Reid W. Jones of Denison, and Sam Pack, Stanley Hayes, Robert R. Keith and Alton Davis, all of Sherman. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery, directed by Dannel Funeral Home,  West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2019 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |