Beaufort County Obituaries South Carolina

Leith Paul Trask III: CITADEL STUDENT FROM BEAUFORT DIES IN WRECK A Beaufort man on Thanksgiving furlough from The Citadel died early Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle wreck on U.S. 21, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Leith Paul Trask III, a sophomore at the Charleston-based military college, was headed northbound near Hunting Island about 1:40 a.m. when the 1999 Isuzu Trooper he was driving veered off the left side of the road, struck a tree, and caught fire, said Lance Cpl. Paul Brouthers of the Highway Patrol. Trask apparently failed "to maneuver around a curve that went to the right," he said. The young man died on impact. Trask was wearing a seatbelt and alcohol use is not suspected. No other vehicles were involved in the wreck, investigating troopers said. Trask was not far from Fripp Island, where his parents, Merry and Leith Paul Trask Jr., live, according to a release posted on the military college's Web site. He was a business major and played football his freshman year. There will be a graveside service at 1 p.m. today at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery across from Beaufort National Cemetery on Boundary Street. Copeland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. College officials said the school will hold a memorial service that will be scheduled later. (Bluffton Today (SC) - November 23, 2005)

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