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Number 3ft1 s] :t , build-UlH hi-Car Crasfi Fatal To Ardeen Hittn*pnlt;lt;! : Parked Drill Rigforado/rdorri Hitt; -|.yf!JU. oll, Sfm of Mlt; l pro- J«»rt Mr*. C. A. Hitt of Gentry, was k_.amf Uum' fft.tu.lly,' n.ml !,!„ compa,^,Ifmfn: Mist* Mu Cawood, daughter of MiDoul- iMrs. Glut Has On wood of the Pie*.hHnk* «*'■lt;■ Grove district southeast of G«wIs me tfy, is in a serious condition at ih*. ■City Hnspffa! n, Silnam Spr,nCw ^fll be the result of an accident last Friday ad ofjevening when the car w,llch ywt„rs will Hitt was driving crashed into a weti nt at Mil rig parked at the roadside «»urmlri Highway 12 one mile cast of Gentry-ill be Hi ft was taken to the City hwjrttit?at Siloam Springs in a Wasson anv *raml bulance and pronounced dead upor,pl°*V~ an'ivnl- H »* believed that he wa* i out dead before leaving the scene ^ot -fl* k as | accident.”lLd° ,MI.SS Cn'0'H' ,hro'n Into o*Burtj I 3hi^allt;l by 0,0 ln”,lc'! nnd Bmn,Jy cut about tho face and head, ft ■•a* feared for n time that her injuries would prove fatal but hospital ** tend ants reported this morning thtti. she has fair chance for recovery.Ol her passengers In the car Include# Misses Carrie Mae Luther, Joy Lyeim and Charlene Hynds. The group «m: on route, to West Point to attend * Baptist youth program. The passe* A'ers in the roar seat received only toi nor bruises arid scratches.The accident occurred about 7:41) jt.ieei-j™; j«Ht west of the farm ho mu «t. 8am Whiteside, who said the drift Gg had been left, there about m'tit-prrv uftornoon When trouble developed•I’fii-flrul ling. the it ofmds. liis-Iasl t. ' ninglies:But-euK-lionlied'antigs;andigs.inisltod-orothees-\eyB.W.beanikheIV.4mat,liedntil-n-with the truck which-wus towing th* Hg. No flares were placed to way*.Passengers in 1h», rear .seat saul they were meeting another car «inr-ing from thlt;» west and just as they h-ft. the glare of the approaching lights^ they crashed .'into the parked, rig. There would hardly have bees loom for the two cars to pass under favorable conditions. It was Joarne* tlie. following day that the drilling I outfit belonged to a Mr. Day -of ne*r, ind | Noel, Mro.The .front portion of the 1941 Packard in which the group was riding was badly demolished. State Trooper Wallace Parnell and Deputy Sheriff John Black were on (h0 scene soo* 'after the reck to make an invecdlgik* tion. \ •Clifton Ardeen Hitt wn8 born Oct. 15, 1027, at Sherman, Texas, and came with the family to Arkansas in 393*.. He graduated from the Gentry Bigs* school with the class of *47 and was *member of the local Baptist church.Survivors besides bis parents Seclude one brother, J, T. Hitt of Texas; one sister, Mary Jeanne, of the home; and his maternal, grandmoth-®rlt; Mrs. B. R. Clifton, of Morae, iw_ Funeral service was conducted actt 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at te local Bopttst church with the p«*fee. Rev. Carl p. Ne)K0«, officiating, assisted by. Rev. Hart, Baptist minister of Siloam Springs. Burial w«» in the. Gentry cemetery under the directionof the Wasson Funeral service Gentry.■.tS
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Gentry, Arkansas, US
Thu, Sep 16, 1948
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