Impressive funeral sevices for Mr. Ollie Joe CANNAFAX prominent Pike County farmer, were conducted from the Zebulon Methodist Church this morning. Rev. W. J. CULPEPPER, the pastor officiated. Burial was in the Zebulon church yard with Frank S. PITTMAN, funeral director in charge. Pallbeares were Bill and Jack ELLIOT, Horace REEVES, Earnest PARKER, Doug MCKINLEY and Frank YEAGER. Mr. Cannafax 32 years of age, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon near his home at Bluff Springs, three miles east of Zebulon, he died two or three hours later in Strickland Memorial Hospital from gunshot wounds in the chest and face. Pike Sheriff J. C. BENNETT said he had arrested Charlie Josey, 30, a negro in connection with the slaying, and that Josey was being held on a charge of murder.
Mr. Cannafax was born and reared in Pike County and a member of one of the county's most prominent families. He was the son of O. J. Cannafax and the late Mary Ella WOOD Cannafax.
Surviving, in addition of his father, are his wife Evelyn BLANTON Cannafax; two children Betty and Billy Cannafax; two brothers Marvin and Gordon Cannafax, all of Pike County.