Lamb, Connie Jo – 1950-1952

BRODERSON, LAMB

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:41

Reasnor Baby Dies in Fall from Moving Car
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Lamb Is First Traffic Death
Jasper county’s first traffic death for 1952 was registered Saturday night when a Reasnor baby tumbled from the car her mother was driving and was killed instantly.
Dead is Connie Jo Lamb, 14-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Lamb. Mr. Lamb operates the locker plant at Reasnor.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock at the Reasnor Methodist church. Officiating will be Rev. Glenn Lamb assisted by Rev. John Cunningham. Burial will be in the Palo Alto cemetery.
Mrs. Lamb was driving with Connie Jo in the front seat of the car Saturday night. As she was turning a corner in Reasnor, the front door of the car swung open and the baby fell.
County Coroner Ralph Toland said Mrs. Lamb grabbed for the child, but she tumbled out on the road. As the car turned, he said, the rear wheel hit Connie Jo on the side of the head. She suffered a fractured skull and was dead on arrival at Skiff Memorial hospital.
The first traffic fatality in the county last year happened on April 1 when a Kellogg farmer was killed when his truck was hit by a train.
Connie Jo was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Lamb. Surviving besides them are two grandparents, Mrs. Julie Broderson of Reasnor and Jay Lamb of Des Moines. The baby was born on Nov 7, 1950 at Newton.
Johnson-Murdoch Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. The body will be taken to the family home in Reasnor where it will lie in state until service time tomorrow.
Source: Newton Daily News; January 21, 1952