Remembering a survivor’s story
By Beth Sergent - bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com
From 2017, William Edmondson of King, N.C., pictured sitting, signs a book for Gina Cocklereece of Winston-Salem, N.C. Edmondson was a survivor of the Silver Bridge collapse and was driving a tractor trailer on Dec. 15, 1967 along with Cocklereece’s father, Harold Cundiff, who didn’t survive. They both visited Point Pleasant for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy in 2017.
Beth Sergent | OVP
(Editor’s note: The late William Edmondson became one of only a handful of survivors from the Silver Bridge disaster which claimed the lives of 46 people. Edmondson spoke with Ohio Valley Publishing in 2017, following a ceremony observing the 50th anniversary of the tragedy which occurred Dec. 15, 1967. He later passed away in 2018. His story, in his own words, is reprinted here on the 53rd anniversary of the collapse.)