LIGHTFOOT, Carol Nancy 1920-1941

LIGHTFOOT, KLEIN

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Date: 4/2/2009 at 11:08:58

Lightfoot Rites
Wednesday

Rites for Miss Lightfoot will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Kearns Garden chapel, Rev. A. L. Drake, pastor of First Baptist church, in charge. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery, beside the grave of her father, the late Roy Lightfoot, killed July 4, 1939, in an airplane plunge with Richard Berry, Waterloo pilot, near Black Hawk airport, southwest of the city.

Iowa highway patrolmen investigating the fatal crash reported Mr. and Mrs. Jones, in company with Miss Lightfoot and Rosauer, Miss Goldberry, and McFarlane, had attended a Saturday night dance at Electric Park Ballroom here until late evening. Because, she said, she felt ill and tired, Mrs. Jones left the group about 11:30 p.m. and went home, informed that the other five planned to get a midnight lunch and perhaps take an auto ride before they went home.

Survivors of the mishap told patrolmen the five drove north on highway 218 to Cedar Falls and to Waverly “just for the ride” and were southbound, three miles out of Waverly, when the car missed the first part of the S-curve, plunged against the ditch bank and rolled.

Patrolman Clare Hoffman said his investigation of the crash showed Jones’ car, a 1937 sedan, went 100 feet from the roadway before striking the bank and then rolled another 162 feet before coming to rest on its top, almost totally wrecked.

With the exception of Rosauer, all occupants of the sedan were thrown clear as the car overturned. Passing motorists took Miss Lightfoot, Miss Goldberry and McFarlane to the hospitals in Waverly and Cedar Falls. Jones and Rosauer were dead when reached.

Bremer county’s coroner, Dr. James Whitmire, Sumner, said Monday he planned no inquest into the three fatalities.

"Somebody Yelled, 'Whoa'” — Miss Goldberry, thru facial bandages, said Monday. She and McFarlane believed Jones either dozed off or simply lost control of the car as it went around the curve. Half asleep at the time, she remembered very little of the mishap, she said, except that somebody yelled “Whoa” as the car went onto the highway shoulder in its fatal plunge.

On the trip to Waverly and homeward, Miss Goldberry said, she and McFarlane shared the front seat with Jones. Miss Lightfoot and Rosauer were in the back seat.

Altho she stipulated it was “only a guess,” Miss Goldberry estimated Jones’ sedan was traveling 60 miles an hour, or a little less, when it left the pavement.

At the time of Miss Lightfoot’s death, her mother, Mrs. Lottie Lightfoot, also of 847 ½ West Fourth, was with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Zimmerman, en route by automobile to Detroit, Mich., to visit two other sisters and two brothers. The party left Waterloo at 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Police radio broadcasts in Iowa and Illinois reached Mrs. Lightfoot at 9 a.m. Sunday in Rockford, Illinois, and she returned home.

Carol Nancy Lightfoot was born December 20, 1920 in Waterloo, daughter of Roy and Lottie Lightfoot. She graduated from West High school in 1939 and had been employed since in the office of the Rath Packing company.

Surviving are mother, a brother, Donald, 514 Argyle street, and a sister, Mrs. Kenneth Klein, of 847 ½ West Fourth.

She was a member of First Baptist church.

[Waterloo Courier, Monday, July 21, 1941]

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