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Fred Neal Wyatt
Fred Neal Wyatt
September 3, 1916 - November 15, 2000
Fred Neal Wyatt HOLLOW ROCK: Services for Fred Neal "Chop" Wyatt, 84, were at 2:00 p.m., Friday, November 17 at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church in Buena Vista with the Rev. Paul Merwin and Rev. Hillman Walker officiating. Interment followed in the Carroll Memorial Gardens near McKenzie.
Mr. Wyatt, a retired engineer for the L & N Railroad, died Wednesday, November 15 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon of a stroke.
He was born September 13, 1916 in Carroll County to the late Robert Bunyan Wyatt and Mary Alice Melton Wyatt. He was a member of the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church serving as a deacon and treasurer; was a World War II army veteran and a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. He was the first American soldier to drive a train into Nazi Germany.
He is survived by his wife, Ovilene Wyatt; two sons, Ernest Neal Wyatt of Bruceton and Stephen Wyatt of Huntingdon; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Bruceton Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.