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)