BRINEY, Frank - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Funeral services for Frank Briney, age 25, of Hillsboro, grandson of Mrs. Mark Briney of Covington, who died at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, of injuries sustained earlier in the afternoon in an auto accident on U.S. 41, at its south junction with U.S. 136, were held at 2 p.m. Friday at the DeSutter Funeral Home in Attica. The Rev. Douglas Dickey officiated and burial was in Osborne Prairie Cemetery, northeast of Covington. The young man, who with his wife, Nancy, had moved to Hillsboro from Attica just recently, was fatally injured when he drove his car into the path of a semi-tractor truck as he and his wife were hauling trash from their new home. His wife, age 19, sustained a fracture of the left arm along with lacerations and bruises. She was released from St. Elizabeth Hospital in Danville where she and her husband were rushed after the accident. Her husband then died at 6:45 p.m. of head, chest and internal injuries. According to a report from State Trooper William Nave and Al Moore, Veedersburg police, Briney was traveling west on U. S. l36 and stopped the vehicle at US.41. Witnesses said a large truck was sitting along the west side of the highway on U.S. 41 and the young man appeared to pull his auto onto the busy highway for a better view of approaching traffic. His car was struck by a northbound semi being driven by Darrell A. Brothers of Evansville. The truck driver escaped injury. The accident victim had been employed at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. at Crawfordsville since Jan. 4, 1960. He was an apprentice offset artist. Mr. and Mrs. Briney moved to Hillsboro from Attica, where he was graduated from high school, in 1960. He graduated in 1959. He was a member of the Indiana National Guard. He was born June 3, 1941, in Danville, Ill., the son of Robert and Maxine Graham Briney. He was married Oct. 29, 1965, to Nancy Clark, formerly of Attica. His mother is a former resident of Covington. Surviving, in addition to the wife, are: his father, Robert Briney of Hillsboro; his mother, Mrs. Maxine Craft of St. Petersburg, Fla.; one brother, Robert Briney of Florida; one half-brother, Lawrence Emmett Craft, also of Florida; and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mark Briney of Covington.   -– jlr