Thurman, Guy

The body of Guy Thurman, 22 year old Miami youth who died Wednesday in Arkansas City Kansas, from injuries he received the previous day when a gas tank in an oil refinery exploded, will arrive in Miami late Thursday night. He is the son of Mrs. Charles Anderson, 207 G Street, NE. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.

The explosion of a gas tank in an Arkansas City Kansas, oil refinery Tuesday afternoon, which immediately killed the plant foreman and injured three workmen, resulted in the death at 10:20 o'clock Wednesday morning of Guy Thurman, 22 year old son of Mrs. Charles A. Anderson, 207 G Street northeast, Miami. Young Thurman is well known in Miami. He was born here, attended the local schools and was employed here until about 18 months ago, when he went to Arkansas City. He formerly was employed in the Robards garage, worked for several months in the district mines and also worked as a grocery clerk here. When Mrs. Anderson received word last night of her son's injury she immediately went to his bedside. She was taken by her brother-in-law, Mike Walsh, Frisco agent here, to Baxter Springs Kansas, where she boarded a train for Arkansas City. Details of the accident were not available. Guy Thurman's two brothers, Paul Thurman, 18, and Claude Thurman, 20, were also employed in the refinery, but both escaped injury. While no funeral arrangements have been made, relatives said today it was certain the body would be returned to Miami for burial. Nearly all of the youth's relatives reside in Miami, including several aunts and uncles. He was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. C. Barnard and a nephew of Charles Barnard.

Funeral services for Guy Thurman, 22-year-old Miami youth, who died Tuesday in Arkansas City Kansas, from injuries he received when a gas tank in an oil refinery exploded, were held at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the home of his mother, Mrs. Charles Anderson, 207 G Street, Northeast. The services were conducted by the Reverend Tillman of Ketchum, and burial was in G.A.R. cemetery in Miami, in charge of the Richardville undertakers. The body arrived here from Arkansas City at 8 o'clock last night.