Extracted from The Tuttle Times (Tuttle, OK)
Thursday, November 27, 1927

Billie Thomas

Funeral services were held Sunday in the First Christian Church for Billie Thomas, 36, who passed away near Sayer, OK while enroute to Hereford, TX where he was to have been employed at the Hereford Gin, of which Taft and Claude McGee, former Tuttle men, are the owners. Rev C.L. Taylor had charge of the service.

Pallbearers were cousins of the deceased: Roy Burkett & Mannie Foster of New Castle, Jack Thomas, J.W. Maddox, Jasper Myrick, W.F. Williams, W.T. Whalen, Ben & Jack Walcott of OKC and Tommie Bobier of Tuttle.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida Wilson Thomas, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Thomas of Tuttle, 1 sister, Mrs. Austin Vandament, and 1 nephew, Jimmie Vandament both of Minco, his grandmother, Mrs. H.H. Louthen of New Castle.

Billie Thomas, son of Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Thomas, was born 6/9/1911 in Tuttle; died 11/20/1947. He married miss Ida Wilson 12/31/1931.
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Extracted from the Tuttle Times (taken from The Sayre Sun):

Bill Thomas, 36, Tuttle, driving west on highway 66 in a 1942 Ford coupe, died of heart failure Thursday before his car ran off the road and turned over, it was decided by the coroner. Thomas was a former deputy fuel inspector for the state fuel division. The accident occurred at 2pm when his car ran off the road to the right and continued down the shoulder for approximately 156 feet. The car overturned on the right side and rolled over on its top. B.C. Shipley, 34, Tuttle, was asleep in the car when the crash occurred. Neither of the two received injuries from the accident.