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- WARD, CHARLES FREDRICK, JR. - Services are being held this afternoonfor Charles Frederick Ward Jr., who died Saturday morning of injuriessustained in a traffic accident. According to the family, Mr. Ward,69, was seriously injured late Friday night in a head-on collisionwhile he was traveling between Oliver Springs and Wartburg. Mr. Wardwas taken to the Oak Ridge Methodist Medical Center, where heunderwent surgery for several hours. He died of heart failure at about7 a.m. Saturday morniing. The family said Mr.Ward was to be marriedSaturday to Betty Cross of Oneida. Funeral services are scheduled at 2p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Coalfield.The Revs. FloydPowell, Julius Mahon and Billy Edmonds will officiate.Buriaial will beat Davis Cemetery in Oliver Springs. Mr. Ward was a sheetmetal workerand boilermaker at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until his retirementfrom the Union Carbide Corp. in 1971. Prior to that, he was a coalminer. He was also widely knowown in Knoxville and surroundingcommunities for his hobby, which involved buying used photographicsupplies and recovering the silver from them. He was a member of thePleasant Grove Baptist Church, where he was in the choir and taughtSunday school for 40 years. He founded the Coalfield Volunteer FireDepartment and also performed with the Sons of Praise Quartet. He wasa member and past president of the Coalfield Lions Club. He issurvived by his daughters, Donna Neal, Deborah Malaga; brothers,Kenneth Ward and Eugene Ward; sisters, Florine Jackson and ShirleyFoster; granddaughter NaTosha Neal, all of Coalfield; and severalnieces and nephews. Sharp Funeral Home of Oliver Springs is in chargeof arrangements. (The Knoxville News-Sentinel May 21, 1991.
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