Cecil Clyde Counts

Cecil Clyde Counts was a 48-year-old man from Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia, who died in the Silver Bridge collapse. His friends, Melvin and Margaret Cantrell, were also in the car. Margaret survived the incident.

Obituary
Counts, Cecil

Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV)

Monday, Dec. 18, 1967; pg. 1

Obituaries Given for Bridge Victims

Funeral. Services for Cecil Counts, 48, of Gallipolis Ferry, formerly of Grayson, Ky., a third victim of the bridge collapse were scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Iron Hill (Ky.) Christian Church with burial to follow in the Carter County Memory Gardens at Grayson. The Malone Funeral Home at Grayson had charge of the arrangements.

A farmer and livestock dealer, he was born March 18, 1910 at Oldtown, Ky., a son of Mrs. Georgia Willis Counts of Grayson and the late Morton Counts.

Other survivors include the wife, Mrs. Dexter Brown Counts; a son, Herbert Roger Counts of Plain City, O.; three daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Stanley of Hitchins, Ky., Mrs. Ralph Barker of Grayson Rt. 3 and Mrs. John P. Bush of Gallipolis Ferry; four sisters, Mrs. Claris Claxon, Mrs. Edgar Everman and Mrs. Garland Knipp, all of Grayson, and Mrs. Dick Vincent of Ashland, Ky.; two brothers, Hord and Norman Counts, both of Grayson, and eight grandchildren.