Salesman Dies In Car Mishap

Athens Review
June 1956
Athens, Texas

Martin Eugene Pettis, 37, of Odessa, was killed early Friday when his auto crashed into a tree 3.3 miles east of Murchsion on the Tyler highway.
State highway patrolman said he lived about 30 minutes and was pronounced dead upon arrival at Henderson County Memorial Hospital.

Officers said Pettis, a salesman for the Beyer Company, a soft drink firm, was traveling alone toward Tyler and apparently went to sleep. They said the car
ran off the left shoulder of the roadway and that the left side of the car struck a tree.

The car was demolished.

The body was brought to the Carroll and Lehr Funeral Home in Athens pending arrangements.

He is survived by his wife; one son, Rickie Pettis, 11; his parents, two brothers, J. F. Pettis and Lige Pettis, both of Overton; four sisters, Mrs. A. O. Gilmore
and Mrs. R. D. Hickman of Overton, Mrs. E. R. Herring, Odessa and Mrs. W. L. Dean of Cincinnati,Ohio.

He was reared at Overton and had lived at Odessa about four years.

He was Henderson County's seventh traffic fatality so far this year.

There were only five in 1955.

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