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CHILD KILLED NEAR
MT. PLEASANT MILLS;
'61 County Traffic Toll Reaches 4;
Snyder County's auto fatality record for 1961 climbed sharply
during the week as a four-year-old girl died in the path of a
motorist Saturday afternoon.
Victim of the weekend tragedy was Cindy Marie Benner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar H. Benner, R. R. 2, Mt. Pleasant Mills. She was
killed when she dashed across Route 104, the Middleburg-Liverpool
highway, about two miles south of Mt. Pleasant Mills.
NO INQUEST
Accident near Mt. Pleasant Mills occurred at 4:05 P. M. Saturday.
Dr. William Weber, Snyder County coroner, said it was unavoidable.
Miss Sarah Master, 22, of Beaver springs, told police she was in the
act of passing a parked car as she drove south along the highway when
the child ran into her path. She died instantly of a crushed chest
and internal injuries.
Born in Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg, on December 12,
1956, the child attended St. Thomas EUB Sunday School in Mt. Pleasant
Mills. The Reverend William Glant, pastor, officiated at funeral
services conducted from Garman's Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon,
Interment was in Barner's (Saint John's) Lutheran Church Cemetery Live
pool RD 1, Perry Co, PA, Liverpool RD.
Surviving are the girl's parents, Oscar H. and Shirley G. Barner
Benner, and a young sister, Beverly Ann Benner, at home. She also
leaves her maternal grandfather, Harry Barner, of Corning, N. Y., and
Mrs. James F. Mengle, of Mt. Pleasant Mills.
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(Apr. 15, 1961)
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