MacGIRVIN, Noral
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1960 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. January 1968
VEEDERSBURG -- A Rt. 1 Covington, man became Fountain County's first fatality of 1968 after the auto he was driving was struck by a train and thrown 90 feet from the point of impact.
Fifty-five-year old Noral MacGirvin died about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, a little over three hours after the accident occurred. MacGirvln was taken unconscious to St. Elizabcth Hospital in Danville, Ill., with a broken clavicle, internal bleeding and kidney puncture.
MacGirvin was struck by a Norfolk & Western train at the State Street crossing by the Fountain County Highway Garage about 7:30 p.m. State Police reported the accident occurred, on a snow-packed area and the train was traveling 35 miles per hour. The crossing was marked only with crossbars.
MacGirvin was driving a 1955 model vehicle. He was thrown from the auto.
Little damage was received by the train which was on its regular run from Charleston, Ill., to Frankfort, Ind. Crewmen uninjured, were identified as Charles Record jr. of Frankfort, engineer, and Ralph Silence of Charleston, conductor.
MacGirvin, a farmer most of his life, has been employed four years at Fountain Foundry in Veedersburg. He had resided four years in Fountain County, mostly in Wabash Township.
He was born Feb, 16, 1912, at Sterling, Colo., the son of J. F. and Mary Stipps MacGirvin.
Surviving are his father, of Rt. 1, Covington; two sisters, Mrs. Sally McAardle of Lookeba, Okla., and Mrs. Belva Whitlock of Danville, Ill; two nieces and one nephew.
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home in Covington. The Rev. Gale McKinley officiated and burial was in Lower Mound Cemetery, southwest of Covington.