Double funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Panama High School Auditorium for David Len Priest, 17, and Virgil Stephen Bledsoe, 15, who died early Saturday morning in a head-on collision about a mile west of Shady Point. Reverend Myrle Fox and Reverend Allen Kersh officiated.
Priest, who had been living in Tulsa, was born November 19, 1954, at Tulsa. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
He leaves his father, Lewis Priest, Jr., of Tulsa; his mother, Mrs. Eunice Gimblett of Shady Point; a brother, Jerry Priest of Shady Point; a sister, Mrs. Robbie Ritchie of Tulsa; and his grandparents, Mrs. Gussie Goff of Shady Point, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Priest, Sr., Panama.