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Show Former Resident, Children Lose Lives in Accident Mrs. Nola Whicker Crafts, 20, who with her little son, Eddie Crafts, 2, and little daughter, Debrah Crafts, 9 months, lost their lives in an automobile accident acci-dent near' Panaca, Nev., last Saturday Sat-urday forenoon, was a former resident resi-dent of Springville. She was born ait Delta, a daughter daugh-ter of Reed and Nola Ence Whicker. Whick-er. Her father died when she was three and after the death of her mother in 1944, she lived in Murray Mur-ray and in Oakland, Calif. She attended at-tended junior high school here li'W ing with' her sister, Mrs. Ray (Gloria) Black. GVm TYiorn'oH "Flrlc!! Crafts nf Hinckley, August, 20, 1949, at Hinckley and they had been living at Delta. When the accident occurred, oc-curred, they were enroute to Cal-iente, Cal-iente, where Mr. Crafts had been transferred with !the railroad company. com-pany. The Crafts' car ! and 'another machine driven by Kenneth Anderson, An-derson, crashed head-on. Sheriff Alex Orr of Lincoln county, investigating inves-tigating officer, said the Anderson car was on the wrong side of the road. Driver of a truck, in which the Crafts' furniture was being taken i" - ' ' - ". y ' ' ' ' r-:':: y i ' ' ' f , i ; J Mrs. Nola W. Crafts to Caliente, was following behind the- family and witnessed the ac- cident- . , , . . The little boy was killed instantly in-stantly by the impact, a report of the accident stated, while Mrs. Crafts and the baby daughter were taken to a hospital and died a short time lajter. Surviving Mrs. Crafts, besides her husband and sister, Mrs. Black of Springville, is another sister, Mrs. Bill (Lily Mae) Francis of Continued on Page Two. Former Resident Loses Life in Accident (Continued from page One) Denver, Colo.; a grandmother, Mrs. George Dobson of Salt Lake City and a step-father, Frank Wo-mack Wo-mack of Springville. Funeral services for the mother and children were held in Delta Wednesday morning and burial was in the Springville Evergreen cemetery. |