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Anna Frances McNeley (1932)

BINDER, MCNELEY

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 2/7/2007 at 16:34:45

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1932

Anna Francis McNeley

Anna Francis, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. McNeley, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 30, 1921. She died from injuries sustained on the highway south of Winterset on the evening of April 7th, 1932, aged 10 years, 11 months and 8 days. With schoolmates from Buffalo school she was returning from a George Washington program at Winterset school and was nearly home when run down by the truck and died almost immediately.

Anna was a remarkably helpful and willing girl. During her mother's long continued illness she was the little and efficient housekeeper and nurse of the four younger children. In school she was an amiable and capable pupil.

Her brothers and sisters are: Nora, Lee, Mary Belle, Carl Dean and Gladys Goldie. Her older half brothers and sister are: Russell of Winterset, Albert of Sterling, Colorado and Mrs. Marie Binder of Omaha. The quick and tender sympathy of all Winterset Community goes to the bereaved family.

The funeral was at the Tidrick funeral home Saturday afternoon. It was in charge of W. C. Porter, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. The Buffalo school led by their teacher, Mrs. Myrtle Clark attended in a body. Burial was made beside a baby sister in the Primitive Baptist cemetery.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1932
Page 1, Column 5

TRUCK KILLS GIRL CROSSING PAVING

Anna McNeley Runs In Front of Campbell’s Truck To Get Mail

Attempting to cross the pavement on No. 169 a mile south of Winterset to get to the family mail box, Anna McNeley, eleven year old girl, stepped from behind a hay wagon and was killed by a truck going to Winterset. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy McNeley who live on the Smalley farm near where the accident occurred.

With some other children of the Buffalo school Anna had attended a George Washington program in Winterset Thursday afternoon Near her home opposite the City park, walking behind a hay wagon, she started across the pavement almost in front of at truck driven by Carl Campbell.

Campbell put on his brakes and attempted to dodge her but was unable to do so. The truck ran off the pavement and barely missed going down the twenty-foot embankment. The little girl was taken to the Winterset hospital where it was found that her skull was fractured and one leg broken; she lived about an hour after the accident.

Coroner Leech held an inquest and a jury composed of Major Charles Aikins, Alf Danforth and E. J. Pearson, after visiting the place of the accident and hearing testimony of witnesses, completely exonorated Campbell from any blame.

Max Hamner, a traveling oil salesman, testified that he was driving twenty-five to thirty miles an hour and was catching up with Campbell when the accident occurred. The tire marks on the pavement and the position of the truck proved Campbell had done all he could possibly do.

The little girl was born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 30, 1921. Her parents and brothers and sisters Nora, Lee, Mary Belle, Carl and Gladys at home, Russell of Winterset, Albert of Sterling, Colorado, and Mrs. Marie Binder of Omaha, survive.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Tidrick funeral home conducted by the Rev. W. C. Porter of the United Presbyterian church. The pupils of Buffalo school, accompanied by the teachers, Mrs. Myrtle Clark and Miss Pauline Edwards, attended in a body. Burial was in the Primitive Baptist cemetery northeast of Winterset.
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Transcriber's note: The gravestone says middle name was Francis, but middle name was taken from Iowa death certificate as Frances

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