Clyde Estel Colyer b. 24 Jan 1917 Elihu, Pulaski County, KY d. 25 May 1963 Henry Co. Hospital, New Castle, IN : Curtis / Colyer family of Somerset Kentucky

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Birth	24 Jan 1917	Elihu, Pulaski County, KY
Gender	Male
Died	25 May 1963	Henry Co. Hospital, New Castle, IN
Buried	Memorial Park Cemetery, N. Dixie Hwy., Dayton, OH
Person ID	I34620	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
Last Modified	07 Sep 2013

Father	Sydney Forest Colyer, b. BET. 1860 - 1880
Mother	Pearl Belle Sears, b. 20 Jan 1893, Elihu, Pulaski County, KY , d. 7 Aug 1986, Somerset KY
Married	8 Dec 1908
Family ID	F008	Group Sheet

Family Mildred Othela Farmer, b. 25 Oct 1918, Elihu, Pulaski County, KY , d. 18 Mar 1992, Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, TN

Children

Last Modified 07 Sep 2013

Family ID F7937 Group Sheet

Notes

Clyde was working in Indianapolis, In. because of a transfer and commuting home to Dayton, Oh. each weekend. He fell asleep at the wheel and struck the rear end of a wrecker that had just pulled a semi out of a ditch. It was travelling about 35 MPH, he was travelling at 70 MPH, but was seen slumped over the steering wheel as someone passed him just before he crashed. He died an hour later at the Straughn, In. hospital.
One of the last thing he did was purchase an "Indy 500" tee shirt for his only grandson, Dan Perkins. It was on the seat beside him when he was found.

Mildred and Clyde are third cousins thought they said they didn't know it when they married. They had a rather rough beginning. They divorced when Jean was only a baby and were separated for almost a year. They remarried in 1939 and always used their first anniversary date because of Jean's birthday.
Mildred and Clyde were divorced after about 18 months of marriage. They remarried a year later, keeping their original anniversary date because of the birth of their daughter Jean.

Sources
[S28007] Jean Grumbling http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jcgrumbling4.

Clyde Estel Colyer[1] 1917 - 1963