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CRASH VICTIMSRITES MONDAYi *,0Entire Family Wiped OutIn Tragedy At Haythorne*4;ire-Avenue Crossing.*'( Funeral services for the fivevictims of the truck-express f°' train crash at the Havthorneun-n*ra\enue crossing of the NewYork Central Railroad Fridayo \\i«» will be held Monday.,h' Two were killed outright%w -ia vmeand two died en route to thehospital and the fifth died inuJ Cnion Hospital yesterday afternoon three hours after thecrash.One entire famil was wiped out and the fifth person was a neign-| bor The accident victims were:Kendall Hooker. 24 years old. P R. 6, Terre Haute, Ehrmandaie. driver of the truck who died at Union Hospital at 2:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon.lrs. Betty Hooker. 2his ^ife, who was killed instantly. Larrv Eugene Hooker. 8 months F:hn.old. their son. who died en route .to Union Hospital. IIConnie Sue Hooker, 18 monthsold. their daughter, who also died 6 I en route to Union Hospital.Harry Patterson. 31 years oldR R. 6. Terre Haute, a neighbor who was riding in the truck and who was also killed instantly in the crash. ,rServices for the entire Hooker w ?d family will be held at the Calla-ban chapel at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. The father, mother and te two children will all be buried side by side at Roseiawn Memorial laPark. pHooker and Patterson were both veterans of World War II. Hooker was a miner at Victory Mine, and lt;y Patterson was an employe of the jp Quaker Maid plant.Yesterday morning they left Ehrmandaie in a truck whichwo1[)faliwn;tvre ticn*s4o-b-nitIDillWb;Forces of Fate I fUIOfficers who investigated the I (0 tragic crash were reminded of pj the grim forces of fate that were at work yesterday.Still intact on what was left of Ihe dash board of the cab of the Hooker truck was dangling a rabbit's foot ... an amulet thought to bring good | \y luck. Rut yesterday was Frierovday, the 13th, a day of ill omen.orncinv-disHooker owned jointly with his 5-; brother-in-law, Rov McClelland, piand were en route to North Terre m Haute to spend the day with er IV Hooker's father and mother. Mr. oi and Mrs. Oscar Hooker. All five ar were sitting in the cab of the truck inas it approached the railroad cross-16 ing. Hooker, who was driving, apparently did not see or hear the thexpress train which was coming at ar 80 miles an hour and drove onto ’ i_ | the tracks in front of it.lo Terrific Crash.1,snatlyto*' j Witnesses who saw, the crashig said the truck was knocked high k- into the air and bodies were scat-Itered along the right-of-way for in | 200 yards. Parts of the truck were ia carried almost a mile from the 3r scene of the crash before the ex-'d press train was brought to a stop.1d .lohn Callahan of Callahan's Funeral Home and Frank Knipmeyer. 824 South Twenty-fourth street.cialwho were eye-witnesses to the th crash, summoned ambulances from th,o;the Callahan Funeral Home and £(• ' ft ft ^B _ , B ft B B ftIOrendered first aid at the scene. Patterson and Mrs. Hooker wereiPiR;mWSitkilled outright. Hooker and the two babies were still alive and were rushed to Union Hospital. The babies died en route lo UnionHospital and Hooker died at 2:20 o’clock without regaining con-|Ui sciousness.inie jHi \\ lt;I foPatterson Rites Monday. 1 fa»n\vin:h 1 Funeral services will be heldd j Monday morning for Patterson at jar 10:30 o’clock at the Callahan hi e-I chapel, and burial will be in Sol-d diers’ Circle in Highland Lawn ar •e cemeterv. The Lawton-Bvrum Post or 1 ; No. 972. Veterans of Foreign Wars inwill conduct full military rites. Pat- tii ;h erson is survived by a sister. Mrs. n j Martha Knight, R. R. 6. Terre m i-l Haute: a brother, Eugene C. Pat- ca Iterson. Florence Ariz.; an aunt, ths. i Mrs. Mvrtle Hamilton, R. R. 6. a£*r- Terre Haute, and an uncle. Law- sa k- rence Patterson of Terre Haute. en £ Kendall Hooker is survived bythe parents. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar l^ieit.;hContinued On Page 2, Column 1.
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 14, 1950
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