Leo Otto Sanders

Leo Otto "Doc" Sanders was a 43-year-old taxicab driver from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who died in the Silver Bridge collapse. His passenger at the time was Ronnie G. Moore. Sanders lived on Ninth Street.

Obituaries For Victims
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Thursday, Dec. 21, 1967; pg. 1

A driver for the Pickens Cab Co., of Point Pleasant, Leo Otto (Doc) Sanders, 43, of 100 9th Street, will be buried in the Elliott Cemetery at Lizemores, W.Va., following services at 2 p.m., Friday at the Ida Baptist Church at Bentree, W.Va. with the Rev Charles Frum officiating.

Mr. Sanders was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. He was born Dec. 20, 1924 at Fola, W. Va. A son of Ellis and Mary Jones Sanders of Sugar Grove, O.

Other survivors include the widow, Mrs. Lydia Elliott Sanders; three sons, Stephen, Wayne, and Robert Sanders, and two daughters, Misses Wanda and Julia Sanders, all at home; four brothers, Elmo Sanders of Jasper, Fla., Paul and Kenneth Sanders of Sugar Grove and Larry Sanders of Lancaster, O.; and five sisters, Mrs. Lucille Wallis, Mrs. Maxine Musser and Mrs. Alverta Snoke, all of Lancaster, Mrs. Bernice aisle of Columbus and Mrs. Birma Roshon of Denver, Colo.

Friends may call at the Mohr-Stevens Funeral Home from 4 to 9 p.m. today and at the Combs Funeral Home at Gauley Bridge after 9 a.m. Friday. The body will be taken to the church an hour before the service.