Olie Edgar Dees

Funeral services were held at Mt. Gilead on Tuesday afternoon for O. E. "Ollie" Dees, popular 26 yr old barber who met his death at sundown, Sunday evening, when the car he was driving between Lake City and High Springs skidded out of control and crashed into a car coming in the opposite direction. Dees died instantly. It turned out that the driver of the other car involved in the collision was the man whom Dees wished to see in High Springs about the award of the top bowling prize at the High Springs Bowling Alley. It was believed that Dees' car, a 1937 Ford V-8, when out of control when a wheel got caught on the shoulder of the road, then skidded when it struck the pavement with all four tires. Burial for Dees at the Mt. Gilead Cemetery was officiated by Rev. Burr A. L. Bixler. Dees had a host of friends in Live Oak and this part of the state. He was owner of the Live Oak Barber Shop at the corner of Howard & Pine Streets for two years until he turned it over to G.B. Dees two months ago. Before owning the Live Oak Barber Shop he was connected with the Allen Barber Shop for six years. At the time of his death he was barbering at the " Three Friends Barber Shop" in Starke. He is survived by his widow and four children; three boys, Jack, Buddy, and Nick, and a daughter, Norma Jane of Live Oak; his mother, Mrs. Katie Richardson Newman and two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Fortner and Miss Ruthie Dees of Greenville; a brother, Summer Dees of Live Oak; four half brothers, Junior, Norman, Nathan, and Ronald Newman; and a half sister, Georgia Newman, all of Greenville. Pallbearers were Arch Hunter, Lem Hughes, Corbert Musgrove, John Hutchinson, Herbert Smith, and Vondie White. Alton Christie FindaGrave.

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Funeral services were held at Mt. Gilead on Tuesday afternoon for O. E. "Ollie" Dees, popular 26 yr old barber who met his death at sundown, Sunday evening, when the car he was driving between Lake City and High Springs skidded out of control and crashed into a car coming in the opposite direction. Dees died instantly. It turned out that the driver of the other car involved in the collision was the man whom Dees wished to see in High Springs about the award of the top bowling prize at the High Springs Bowling Alley. It was believed that Dees' car, a 1937 Ford V-8, when out of control when a wheel got caught on the shoulder of the road, then skidded when it struck the pavement with all four tires. Burial for Dees at the Mt. Gilead Cemetery was officiated by Rev. Burr A. L. Bixler. Dees had a host of friends in Live Oak and this part of the state. He was owner of the Live Oak Barber Shop at the corner of Howard & Pine Streets for two years until he turned it over to G.B. Dees two months ago. Before owning the Live Oak Barber Shop he was connected with the Allen Barber Shop for six years. At the time of his death he was barbering at the " Three Friends Barber Shop" in Starke. He is survived by his widow and four children; three boys, Jack, Buddy, and Nick, and a daughter, Norma Jane of Live Oak; his mother, Mrs. Katie Richardson Newman and two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Fortner and Miss Ruthie Dees of Greenville; a brother, Summer Dees of Live Oak; four half brothers, Junior, Norman, Nathan, and Ronald Newman; and a half sister, Georgia Newman, all of Greenville. Pallbearers were Arch Hunter, Lem Hughes, Corbert Musgrove, John Hutchinson, Herbert Smith, and Vondie White.