A sandlot baseball game resulted in death Monday for 8 1/2 year old Terry Dickey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Dickey, near Sims.

Terry was at bat in a game with some friends at the farm home of Albert Thomason when a pitched ball struck him behind the left ear. This was about 2:30 p.m.

"Terry cried a little then went back to playing ball for about 30 minutes longer." Mr. Thomason told the Coroner Bob Johnson.

When the game broke up, Terry walked a quarter of a mile home, told his mother he had been hit and lay down to sleep. His mother tried to rouse him later and found him unconscious.

Mr. and Mrs. Dickey took the child to Fairfield Memorial Hospital about 6:30. At 11:00 p.m Terry died.

An autopsy showed death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral services for Terry Dickey were Wednesday at 2p.m. in Pin Oak Church with Rev. Dale Wolf officiating and Richardson Funeral Home in charge.

Terry was born October 6, 1946 in Wayne County and was a pupil at Berry Community School north of Sims.

Survivors besides his parents are two brothers, Ronnie Lee, 11, and Jerry Reed 2; a sister, Janice Ann, 7; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Dickey of Bluford and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bratcher, of Wayne City, and Mrs. Laura Dalton of Bluford.