Firefighter Freddie Summers, age 27, of the Charleston Fire Department, died on March 4, 1949, when the floor collapsed during a fire at the Woolworth’s Department Store.
Freddie was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy.
He was a member of the Charleston Fire Department’s Central Fire Station for 6 years.
He is survived by his wife Ilene; his two daughters Linda Sue and Mary Kay; his father A.C. Summers; his half-brothers, Walter, Everett, Austin, Owen, Bryan, and Ernest; his sister Vidia; and his half-sisters Lola, Jane, Inas, Velva, and Avelee.
