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DOUGLAS, Doris Mae

Source: 1940s obituaries collected by Rose Marie Sutherlin provided to kbz via Betty Dotson (one great lady and genealogist – both were and ironically, I have been cleaning my genealogy things out and found this on the day Betty passed – probably had it for years when Rose Marie passed as fairly sure Betty received much of her things and Betty likely already had one of these)

The Veedersburg train-auto-crash of a week ago took its fifth victim in the death at 9:14 p.m. Saturday in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Danville of Doris Mae Douglas, 14, Veedersburg from injuries received in the crash. Doris Mae suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries in the accident that resulted in her death Saturday evening. The injured girl never regained consciousness following the crash.  John Nance, driver of the car was killed instantly in the crash with a Nickle-Plate Railroad fast freight train, his bride of a few weeks, Louise Douglas Nance, 21, died enroute to the office of Dr. CB McCord, Veedersburg; two small children, brothers of Mrs. Nance, Gerald Dean Douglas, 6 and Clarence Douglas, 3, died as they were being placed in an ambulance to be brought to a hospital in Danville.  A sixth occupant of the car, Eugene Nance, 14, brother of John is a patient in St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of a possible skull fracture and numerous cuts and bruises received in the accident. The body was removed to the Fishero Funeral Home, Veedersburg for completion of funeral arrangements.

This family is buried in Stone Bluff, Fountain County
Doris May Douglas 18 August 1932 – 30 March 1946
Garold Deane Douglas 30 Jan 1940 – 24 March 1946
Richard Clarence Douglas 30 March 1942 – 24 March 1946
Alice Louise Douglas Nance 5 July 1925 – 2 April 1946
John W. Nance 23 Oct 1922 – 24 March 1946 (4:55 p.m.) buried Murray Cemetery northeast of Hillsboro, Indiana

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