| Hourigan Cemetery at Haysville, Marion County, Kentucky |
| Britt Johnson Hourigan Born 11/21/1969 Died 9/4/1997 |
| Son of Albert Johnson 'Johnny' Hourigan III and Shirley Tate |
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| Lebanon Enterprise, 9/10/1997, Page A1, Wednesday by Charles Pear, News Editor Gravel Switch man killed in accident A 27 year old Gravel Switch man was killed in a highway accident in Fayette County, West Virginia Thursday night. Britt Johnson Hourigan, son of Johnny and Shirley Tate Hourigan of Gravel Switch, died after the tractor-trailer he was driving crashed on US Route 19 near Oak Hill. He was traveling north at 11:30 pm when the accident occurred, said deputies of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department. "Preliminary indication are that the vehicle drifted off the pavement and struck a guardrail," Fayette County Sheriff Larry Dotson was quoted as saying in The Register-Herald newspaper of Beckley, West Virginia. The truck then traveled a short distance, went over the guardrail and down an enbankment before stopping on its top, Dotson said. Hourigan was driving for Ryder Trucking Co. He was a Marion County native and a member of the Class of 1988 at Marion County High School. He was a member of Gravel Switch Baptist Church. The funeral was Monday, Sept. 8 at 2 pm in North Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Boyle County. Bro. Mike Wright officated. Burial was in Haysville Cemetery. Lebanon Enterprise, 9/10/1997, Page A5, Wednesday Britt Johnson Hourigan, 27 Britt Johnson Hourigan, 27, Gravel Switch, died Sept. 4, 1997, near Oak Hill, West Virginia. A native of Marion County, Hourigan was born Nov. 21, 1969. He was a truck driver for Ryder Trucking Company and a member of Gravel Switch Baptist Church. Survivors include: his parents, Johnny and Shirley Tate Hourigan of Gravel Switch, his paternal grandmother, Freida Hourigan of Gravel Switch; and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral services were held Sept. 8 at North Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Gravel Switch with burial in Haysville Cemetery. Bro. Mike Wright officiated. Active pallbearers were Dave and Pat Hourigan, Barry Shewmaker, Brian Shearer, Larry Privett and James Johnson. Campbell-DeWitt Funeral Home, Lebanon, was in charge of the arrangements. |
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