Crash Injuries Fatal
to Owensville Youth
Larry Tim Garrett, 18,
Owensville high school student and captain of the school’s basketball team,
died about 10:45 o’clock Tuesday night, January
24, 1956, at the Deaconess hospital in Evansville from injuries suffered
Sunday afternoon, January 22, 1956, in a two-car crash south of Owensville on
Highway 65.
The
youth’s death marks the sixth Gibson county vehicle fatality this month.
Meanwhile
Mrs. Eldora Garrett, 39, mother of the deceased, remains in ‘extremely
critical’ condition at the hospital with injuries sustained in the same
accident. The father and husband, Frank,
41, and another son, Richard, 2, are reported in satisfactory condition and
Miss Joan Welborn, 16, Owensville, occupant of the
Garrett car, was reported still in serious condition.
Occupants
of the second car, Edward Seibert, 28, Poseyville,
the driver, and Richard Mounts, 17, Cynthiana, are also considered in
satisfactory condition at the hospital.
The Garretts had planned to more to Oregon today and sold their
farm and possessions at an auction last Saturday. They were enroute
to Evansville to visit a relative Sunday when the accident occurred.
According
to information received here, the senior class of Owensville high school of
which Tim Garrett was a member, had already set about plans to postpone its
annual trip to Washington, D.C. and instead use the
funds to assist their classmate in his battle for life but the hand of fate won
out.
Besides
the parents and brother hospitalized, Tim is also survived by another brother,
Paul Wayne; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Garrett of Poseyville and Mrs. Stella M. Garrett, Evansville.
Tim
is at the Holder funeral home in Owensville pending funeral arrangements.
OWENSVILLE
- Funeral services for Larry Tim
Garrett, 18, who died Tuesday night, January
24, 1956, in the Deaconess Hospital in Evansville from injuries received in
an automobile accident Sunday, January
22, 1956, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, January 27, 1956, in Maumee General Baptist Church by the Rev. Alva
Willis.
Tim was born March 30,
1938 to Frank John and Harriet Eldora (Garrett) Garrett.
Burial
will be in Maumee Cemetery.
Friends
may call at the Holder Funeral Home until the funeral hour.