Princeton Daily Clarion  January 25, 1956

 

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.


Princeton Daily Clarion, January 26, 1956

 

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.