A Family Tragedy

I recently had the opportunity to go through and digitize most of Grandma Gay's old photos. I am really glad I did, because I found some interesting stuff in there.

You see, I never knew my grandfather, Dexter Eugene McGaughy. He died in a car accident along with my Uncle, Joe Don, back in the 60's. I had heard stories of this unfortunate event my entire life, but something about seeing the old newspaper clippings really brought it to life for me.

If you click the image of the newspaper clipping, it should open it in full size for easy reading. I was also able to locate my grandfather's death certificate:

Hearing about the story of grandpa dying in a car crash was completely different from seeing the car he was pulled out of. My imagination never captured the brutality of this accident.