Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hasty, Alfred E., 1956 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ALFRED EMMANUEL HASTY TRAFFIC ACCIDENT FATAL TO ALFRED E. HASTY OF FRANKLIN Alfred Emmanuel Hasty, 28, husband of Mrs. Dorothy McCann Hasty, Airport Village, Franklin, was instantly killed Wednesday morning about 7 o'clock when his tractor-trailer left the highway about 13 miles south of Ahoskie, N.C. and over-turned. The tractor caught on fire and was totally destroyed. Mr. Hasty was a driver for the Miller Motor Lines of Greensboro, N.C. and was hauling tall oil from Plymouth to the new Hercules Powder Company plant at Franklin. The accident occurred in a swampy area, and the tall oil in the trailer spilled out and distributed itself in the swamp. Mr. Hasty was the son of Mrs. Iola Mabel Hasty and the late Percy Lewis Hasty. He was a member of the Sebrell Methodist Church and a veteran of World War II. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by one son, Douglas E. Hasty; two daughters, Victoria Lynn Hasty and Linda Sue Hasty, all of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. John Vargo, Mrs. Raymond Bess and Mrs. James Joyner, all of Franklin; three brothers, Carlton Hasty of Petersburg, Gerald Hasty of Franklin, and Quillian Hasty, U.S. Army stationed in Japan. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Rev. C.A. McCormick, Jr., pastor of the Courtland Methodist Church and Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, pastor of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. [Alfred Emmanuel HASTY, 17 Oct 1956, NC, age 28, bd. Riverside Cemetery, Courtland, 19 Oct 1956, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 18 Oct 1956] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]