Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today at Georgetown Baptist Church for Durwood Eldred Graddy, 66, retired rural mail carrier and service station operator who died Wednesday following a lengthy illness.
The Rev Comer Williams officiated assisted by the Rev. H. C. Chase. Interment was in the church cemetery with McKinstry and Son Funeral home of Colquitt in Charge.
Mr. Graddy was born in Alabama Jan. 28,1897 son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Graddy. He was a member of Georgetown Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ina Carter Graddy; a son, Durwood E. Graddy, Jr., Georgetown; two brothers, H. K. Graddy, Allantown, GA., and W. W. Graddy, Georgetown: a sister, Mrs. R. E. Finlayson, Inverness, AL, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Orbit from The Albany Herald, Albany, GA 4/12/1963
Uncle Duck, as I used to call him, was always into other things. My mom, Verdie Graddy Surles, told me that when she was young, he had an airplane he wanted to fly, but never took the lessons to learn. He had it in a pasture and would taxi it from one end to the other, sometimes with a passenger aboard, but never left the ground.
When I was a child, I visited my grandparents often who lived right behind Uncle Duck's service station. He, once for a length of time I don't remember, drove a Trailway bus from Eufaula to Tallahassee, FL one day per week. I used to clean the bus for him late on the afternoons after his runs. I also have ridden the bus to visit a cousin of mine about 1/2 way between Georgetown and Ft. Gaines. Riding there in the morning and catching him on his return in the afternoons.
There was a theater in Georgetown that would let us kids in for the matinees for a few cents and some bottle caps. Uncle Duck would open his coke machine and let us have the bottle caps needed for the theatre.
He and Ina purchased the first gas powered bicycle for their son Durwood when he was a little over 10 years of age. The was followed by a car, a 1956 Thunderbird, when he turned 16 and had his drivers license.
In the photo of Uncle Duck, there is an old car and a gas pump of the day. It had a hand pump built into the lower part, where you pumped into the glass cylinder above, the volume of gas you wanted to purchase. there was a calibrated marker on the glass to show the amount of gas in the cylinder. Then you would use the nozzle to drain the cylinder of gas into your vehicle.
Comments by T. (Tommy) L. Surles, III
The Rev Comer Williams officiated assisted by the Rev. H. C. Chase. Interment was in the church cemetery with McKinstry and Son Funeral home of Colquitt in Charge.
Mr. Graddy was born in Alabama Jan. 28,1897 son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Graddy. He was a member of Georgetown Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ina Carter Graddy; a son, Durwood E. Graddy, Jr., Georgetown; two brothers, H. K. Graddy, Allantown, GA., and W. W. Graddy, Georgetown: a sister, Mrs. R. E. Finlayson, Inverness, AL, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Orbit from The Albany Herald, Albany, GA 4/12/1963
Uncle Duck, as I used to call him, was always into other things. My mom, Verdie Graddy Surles, told me that when she was young, he had an airplane he wanted to fly, but never took the lessons to learn. He had it in a pasture and would taxi it from one end to the other, sometimes with a passenger aboard, but never left the ground.
When I was a child, I visited my grandparents often who lived right behind Uncle Duck's service station. He, once for a length of time I don't remember, drove a Trailway bus from Eufaula to Tallahassee, FL one day per week. I used to clean the bus for him late on the afternoons after his runs. I also have ridden the bus to visit a cousin of mine about 1/2 way between Georgetown and Ft. Gaines. Riding there in the morning and catching him on his return in the afternoons.
There was a theater in Georgetown that would let us kids in for the matinees for a few cents and some bottle caps. Uncle Duck would open his coke machine and let us have the bottle caps needed for the theatre.
He and Ina purchased the first gas powered bicycle for their son Durwood when he was a little over 10 years of age. The was followed by a car, a 1956 Thunderbird, when he turned 16 and had his drivers license.
In the photo of Uncle Duck, there is an old car and a gas pump of the day. It had a hand pump built into the lower part, where you pumped into the glass cylinder above, the volume of gas you wanted to purchase. there was a calibrated marker on the glass to show the amount of gas in the cylinder. Then you would use the nozzle to drain the cylinder of gas into your vehicle.
Comments by T. (Tommy) L. Surles, III
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today at Georgetown Baptist Church for Durwood Eldred Graddy, 66, retired rural mail carrier and service station operator who died Wednesday following a lengthy illness.
The Rev Comer Williams officiated assisted by the Rev. H. C. Chase. Interment was in the church cemetery with McKinstry and Son Funeral home of Colquitt in Charge.
Mr. Graddy was born in Alabama Jan. 28,1897 son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Graddy. He was a member of Georgetown Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ina Carter Graddy; a son, Durwood E. Graddy, Jr., Georgetown; two brothers, H. K. Graddy, Allantown, GA., and W. W. Graddy, Georgetown: a sister, Mrs. R. E. Finlayson, Inverness, AL, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Orbit from The Albany Herald, Albany, GA 4/12/1963
Uncle Duck, as I used to call him, was always into other things. My mom, Verdie Graddy Surles, told me that when she was young, he had an airplane he wanted to fly, but never took the lessons to learn. He had it in a pasture and would taxi it from one end to the other, sometimes with a passenger aboard, but never left the ground.
When I was a child, I visited my grandparents often who lived right behind Uncle Duck's service station. He, once for a length of time I don't remember, drove a Trailway bus from Eufaula to Tallahassee, FL one day per week. I used to clean the bus for him late on the afternoons after his runs. I also have ridden the bus to visit a cousin of mine about 1/2 way between Georgetown and Ft. Gaines. Riding there in the morning and catching him on his return in the afternoons.
There was a theater in Georgetown that would let us kids in for the matinees for a few cents and some bottle caps. Uncle Duck would open his coke machine and let us have the bottle caps needed for the theatre.
He and Ina purchased the first gas powered bicycle for their son Durwood when he was a little over 10 years of age. The was followed by a car, a 1956 Thunderbird, when he turned 16 and had his drivers license.
In the photo of Uncle Duck, there is an old car and a gas pump of the day. It had a hand pump built into the lower part, where you pumped into the glass cylinder above, the volume of gas you wanted to purchase. there was a calibrated marker on the glass to show the amount of gas in the cylinder. Then you would use the nozzle to drain the cylinder of gas into your vehicle.
Comments by T. (Tommy) L. Surles, III
The Rev Comer Williams officiated assisted by the Rev. H. C. Chase. Interment was in the church cemetery with McKinstry and Son Funeral home of Colquitt in Charge.
Mr. Graddy was born in Alabama Jan. 28,1897 son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Graddy. He was a member of Georgetown Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ina Carter Graddy; a son, Durwood E. Graddy, Jr., Georgetown; two brothers, H. K. Graddy, Allantown, GA., and W. W. Graddy, Georgetown: a sister, Mrs. R. E. Finlayson, Inverness, AL, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Orbit from The Albany Herald, Albany, GA 4/12/1963
Uncle Duck, as I used to call him, was always into other things. My mom, Verdie Graddy Surles, told me that when she was young, he had an airplane he wanted to fly, but never took the lessons to learn. He had it in a pasture and would taxi it from one end to the other, sometimes with a passenger aboard, but never left the ground.
When I was a child, I visited my grandparents often who lived right behind Uncle Duck's service station. He, once for a length of time I don't remember, drove a Trailway bus from Eufaula to Tallahassee, FL one day per week. I used to clean the bus for him late on the afternoons after his runs. I also have ridden the bus to visit a cousin of mine about 1/2 way between Georgetown and Ft. Gaines. Riding there in the morning and catching him on his return in the afternoons.
There was a theater in Georgetown that would let us kids in for the matinees for a few cents and some bottle caps. Uncle Duck would open his coke machine and let us have the bottle caps needed for the theatre.
He and Ina purchased the first gas powered bicycle for their son Durwood when he was a little over 10 years of age. The was followed by a car, a 1956 Thunderbird, when he turned 16 and had his drivers license.
In the photo of Uncle Duck, there is an old car and a gas pump of the day. It had a hand pump built into the lower part, where you pumped into the glass cylinder above, the volume of gas you wanted to purchase. there was a calibrated marker on the glass to show the amount of gas in the cylinder. Then you would use the nozzle to drain the cylinder of gas into your vehicle.
Comments by T. (Tommy) L. Surles, III
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