Horace Donald Cremeens

Horace Donald Cremeens was a 49-year-old man from Addison, Ohio, who died in the Silver Bridge collapse.

Cremeens, Horace Donald
Point Pleasant Register (Point Pleasant, WV) - Published Monday, Dec. 18, 1967; pg. 3

Horace Donald Cremeens, 49, of Addison, O., an employee of the Marietta Boat Manufacturing Co. at Point Pleasant, will be buried in the Poplar Ridge Cemetery at Kyger, O. following funeral services at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Poplar Ridge Baptist Church.

A veteran of World War II, he was born Jan. 22, 1918, at Cheshire, O., a son of the late Victor and Ruth Cremeens. He was a member of the Baptist Church at Addison and the Point Pleasant American Legion Post.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Hazel Lemley Cremeens; two daughters, Mrs. Vivian Carol Taylor of Addison and Mrs. Donna Cremeens of home; two sisters, Mrs. Elsie Taylor of Chicago and Mrs. Opal Jones of Gallipolis; and three grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home at Middleport.

Victims of the Bridge
Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, OH) - Published Monday, Dec. 18, 1967

The body of Horace Donald Cremeens, 49, Addison, was recovered at 1:30 p.m. Sunday from the Ohio River at the scene of the Silver Bridge disaster.

Mr. Cremeens was born January 22, 1918 in Ohio. He was a laborer at the Marietta Mfg. Plant. He was a member of the Baptist Church, Addison, the American Legion Post, Pt. Pleasant, a veteran of World War II.

He was the son of the late Victor and Ruth Cremeens.

Survivors include his wife Hazel; two daughters, Donna, at home, and Mrs. Charles (Vivian) Taylor, Addison; two sisters, Mrs. Raymond (Elsie) Taylor, Chicago, and Mrs. Clarence (Opal) Jones, Gallipolis, and three grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. from Poplar Ridge Church with the Rev. John Jeffers officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at Rawlings Coats funeral home anytime.