Harbolt - Gary
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review newspaper, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County Indiana 26-May-1958 p 1
A 3 ½-year-old Crawfordsville boy was
killed and his parents and another couple injured, three seriously,
about 2 p.m. Sunday in an auto collision at an intersection two miles
west of Alamo. Dead on arrival at Culver Hospital was little Gary Lee
Harboldt, who had multiple injuries including a skull fracture. The
injured were his parents, Vernon E. Harboldt, 28, 816 ½ S. John St.,
with a broken left collar bone, rib fractures and lacerations of head,
face and legs, and Mrs. Barbara E. Harboldt, 27, fractured pelvis and
lacerations and bruises of the head and body; James N. Carothers, 51,
Rt. 3 Crawfordsville, fracture of ribs on left side and lacerations of
left knee, and his wife, Mrs. Marie Carothers, 52, broken ribs, fracture
of four vertebrae and lacerastion of head, arms and legs. Carothers, a
Crawfordsville light company employee and minister of Christian Churches
at Alamo and Wallace, was released from the hospital after treatment of
his injuries. The others remained. The hospital reported Sunday night
that Mrs. Carothers was in fair, Mrs. Harboldt in fairly good and Mr.
Harboldt in good condition. The sheriff’s office reported the accident
happened when Carothers, headed east toward Alamo, struck the Harboldt
car in the left side at the intersection as the latter was driving north
on the road that is the boundary between Montgomery and Fountain
Counties. The Harboldt car was knocked into the northeast corner of the
intersection, landing on its side after hitting tow trees on the lawn of
Ralph Moore, Rt. 1 Waynetown. A part of the car came to rest on top of
the Carothers auto, which followed it and slid under it after the
impact. All the Harboldts were thrown out of their car and Mrs.
Carothers out of hers. She was pinned under her auto so that it had to
be jacked up to release her. The Moores were at home and heard the
crash. They did not see the accident. The sheriff’s office and ambulance
were called from their home. Sheriff’s officers estimated damage at
about $850 to the front, rear and right side of the Carothers car, a
1957 Mercury, and said the 1953 Buick convertible driven by Harboldt, a
truck driver and owned by his brother, Jack Harboldt, 800 E. Wabash
Ave., was a complete wreck. Gary Lee Harboldt was born in this city Oct.
17, 1954. Surviving besides the parents are the grandparents, Mrs.
Myrtle Trinkle, Crawfordsville and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Harboldt of
Alamo. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Russell
E. Brown Mortuary with Rev. John R. Servies officiating. Burial will be
in Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m.
Wednesday.