Joseph C Deese

Elderly Man Killed When Car Rams Parked Vehicle Saturday


      Union County's 23rd traffic fatality in 1964-the highest ever-was recorded Saturday when a car rammed another vehicle in a service station yard and killed Joe C. Deese, 70, R2 Matthews, who was sitting in a parked car.

  The accident occurred at Underwood's store on Weddington Rd. seven miles west of Monroe at 8:25 a.m. Saturday.

      Brown said that Cope's car had gone off the road and struck Deese's parked car.  Brown said he would charge Cope with being on the wrong side of the road, man-slaughter, no driver's license and improper registration. Cope was treated for minor injuries at Union Memorial Hospital.

  Last rites for Mr. Deese will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Harris-Wells Chapel here with burial in Weddington Cemetery.

  He was a son of the late Robert and Martha Secrest Deese.   He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Lessie Kincaid Deese; two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Adcock of Monroe, Miss Mary Irene Deese of Raleigh, nine sons, Joe C. Deese, Larry W. Deese, Thomas R. Deese, all of Charlotte, Horace H. Deese of Jersey City, N. J., Roy H. Deese of Raleigh, Phillip Deese of Matthews, John A. Deese of the U.S. Army in Korea; two brothers, C. S. Deese and P. H. Deese, both of Matthews; three step-daughters, Mrs. John A. Deese, Mrs. Callie Taylor of Kannapolis, Mrs. Otis Daniel of Jacksonville, Fla, a stepson, Martin Kincaid of Denver, Colo.; 14 grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.  His first wife, Jennie Turner, died in 1941.