Mundorf - Mary Elizabeth
Source: obituary in a scrapbook from a collection of Fauniel Hershberger's typed by Walt W
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1954
Injuries received in a traffic accident near Jamestown early Wednesday caused the death of Miss Mary Elizabeth Mundorf, 25, New Richmond. She died at 3:50 a.m. The driver of the car in which she was riding, Maxie D. Hodges, 22, was seriously injured. He is a soldier who arrived home from Korea only last weekend. His worst injury is a badly crushed right hand. The accident occurred about two miles east of Jamestown on U.S. 136 at about 12:30 a.m. It was believed the couple were returning from Indianapolis. Hodges was driving a car owned by his brother, Donald Hodges, 1014 E. College St. Investigating officers said Hodges drove off a side road from the south and into the side of a tractor-trailer driven west by Robert Eugene Hudson, St. Paul, Minn. Hudson put on his brakes and the truck jack-knifed. The trailer struck the car driven by Hodges and scooted it down the highway to the west. It finally came to rest with the automobile jammed against a utility pole and the trailer toppled over on the car. An ambulance was summoned from Jamestown and the injured man and woman were brought to Culver Hospital here. Another truck driver was the first person at the scene. Hudson, the truck driver, had a laceration on his forehead and on one leg but was not hospitalized. Both the truck and automobile were badly damaged and were not removed until Wednesday afternoon. The truck was loaded with a window-cleaning fluid and a drain cleaner. State Trooper Harold E. Jackson of Brownsburg investigated the accident, as did the Hendricks County coroner. Hodges was inducted into the service from here about two years ago. He was sent to Korea, arriving there in December, 1952. He returned to Crawfordsville only Monday night and was staying with a sister, Mrs. Nettie Davis, 114 E. Jefferson St. He is a native of Glasgow, Ky. Miss Mundorf was born July 26, 1928, in Los Angeles, the daughter of Theodore and Grace Fruits Mundorf. She had lived in New Richmond most of her life and attended the New Richmond School. She was a member of the New Richmond Christian Church. The survivors include the mother, Mrs. Samuel Haire of New Richmond; a brother, Donald Ralph Mundorf of Franklin; a niece, Beverly Jo Mundorf of Franklin; her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Charles Fruits of New Richmond, and a number of uncles and aunts. Funeral services will be held at the New Richmond Christian Church at 2 p.m. Friday, with the Rev. Donald Tharp, pastor of the church, in charge. Burial will be in the Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may pay their respects at the King & Brown Funeral Home in Linden.
New Richmond — Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth Mundorf were conducted Friday afternoon at the New Richmond Christian Church with Rev. Donald Tharp officiating. Burial was in the Waynetown Cemetery. Mary Elizabeth, 25, was killed in an accident early Wednesday when the car in which she was riding, driven by Maxie D. Hodges, 22, collided with a tractor trailer driven by Robert Hudson, St. Paul, Minn. An ambulance was summoned from Jamestown and rushed the injured man and woman to Culver Hospital. She died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. Hodges suffered a badly crushed right hand, and other minor injuries in the accident near Jamestown. Miss Mundorf was born July 26, 1928, in Los Angeles, the daughter of Theodore and Grace Fruits Mundorf. She had lived in New Richmond most of her life and attended the public school here. She was a member of the New Richmond Christian Church. The survivors include the mother, Mrs. Samuel Haire, of New Richmond; a brother, Donald Ralph Mundorf of Franklin; a niece, Beverly Jo Mundorf of Franklin; her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Fruits and several uncles and aunts. King and Brown Funeral Home was in charge of the services.
Source: obituary in a scrapbook from a collection of Fauniel Hershberger's typed by Walt W
NEW RICHMOND — Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth Mundorf, who passed away at the Culver Hospital early Wednesday morning from injuries received a few hours earlier in an automobile wreck, were conducted from the New Richmond Christian Church, at 2:00 p.m. Friday. Rev. Donald Tharp, minister of New Richmond Christian Church officiated. Serving as pallbearers and assisting with floral tributes were Carl Burnett, Frank Todd, James Haire, Richard Thomas, Thomas Oppy and Olney Buck. Interment was in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery.