Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Richard Harold Dugger May 22 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheila Martin sheilam78@comcast.net May 25, 2003, 12:23 pm Thomasville Times Enterprise May 24, 2003 Richard Harold Dugger Services for Richard Harold Dugger of Boston are at 3 p.m., Sunday, May 25, 2003 at Boston Baptist Church where he was a member. The Rev. Tim Phillips will officiate and interment is in Roselawn Cemetery in Barwick. Active pallbearers are Tyrone Hopper, Fred Bass, Lavone Shiver, Mark Saunders, Joshua Herring and Maxey Little. Mr. Dugger died Thursday, May 22 at Archbold Memorial Hospital from injuries received from an automobile accident. He was born in Barwick on June 4, 1946. He was the son of the late Daniel and Louise Dugger. He will be missed by family and friends. His disability did not keep him from helping others because that's what he liked to do most. Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Dorothy and Luke Keadle of Thomasville; a sister-in-law, Donna Wilson of Sesser, Ill.; nieces, Linda and Mark Yates of Sesser Ill.; Karla and H.L. Sherrod of Boston; Kathy and Jeff Lancaster of Thomasville; and a nephew, Michael and Diana Dugger of Sesser, Ill.; and several great nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother Carl Dugger. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Donations may be made to the Boston Baptist Church. Friends may sign the online guest register at www.allenfh.com. -- Allen & Allen Funeral Home Thomasville Times Enterprise May 23, 2003 Wreck kills Boston man By Julie A. Blakley BOSTON -- The man who would make coffee and greet customers at Murphy's in downtown Boston each day died Thursday afternoon in a traffic accident on his way home from the store for lunch. Richard Harold Dugger, 56, lived alone in a mobile home near the store. The Boston resident had been at the store off and on all morning and was probably on his way home for his mid-day meal when the accident happened, said Murphy's vice president and store manager Rodney Willis, a man who had known Dugger since his days at Central High School. The accident happened at about 12:45 p.m. when Dugger failed to yield the right of way at an intersection and pulled his Dodge Dakota pickup truck out in front of a semi-truck traveling east on U.S. Highway 84, said T.S. Poitevint, communications equipment officer with the Georgia State Patrol. Dugger was killed. Jesse Ramone Griffin, the semi-truck driver, was injured and is being treated at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital, Poitevint said. Griffin, 31, is a resident of Jacksonville, Fla. Handicapped by various disabilities, Dugger didn't work for a wage. Instead, he would chat with customers and lend a hand at the store almost daily, said Diane Horne, the store's night manager. "He would come in early in the morning and hang out and make coffee," she said. "He would help out around the store. He was just one of our little hang- out buddies." Willis said Dugger had been a friend of the family and the company for years and that he was a well-known face in downtown Boston and liked by all who knew him. "He was just a friend of everybody. He was loved by everyone, and he loves everyone," Willis said. "He was part of Boston. He was a fixture of downtown Boston." This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb