Burnem, Leonard Cleo
Passed: 1949-01-30
Age: 22
Source: Jackson Herald
Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 1949-02-04
Information: Burnem, Cleo Cleo Burnem, 22 year old son of Fred and Iva Burnem, was killed and four others were injured, two of them critically, in a head-on collision of two cars in Charleston early Sunday morning. Burnem died in a Charleston hospital a few hours after the crash. Funeral services were held at Charleston on Tuesday afternoon and burial was in Cunningham Memorial Park. The parents, a brother, Carl, and a sister, Lorene Robinson, all of Charleston; two aunts, Mrs. S. E. Hawk and Faye Burnem of Ripley, and an uncle, Alfred Coon Burnem, also of Ripley, are among the survivors. (Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection)