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Submitted: 5/7/21 • Approved: 5/11/21 • Last Updated: 5/14/21 • R416800-G0-S3
1930-1946
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Wanda Louise Ball, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Ball, 801 Cedar street, was fatally injured yesterday when she fell off the flat bed of a ton and a half GMC truck.
Riding on the truck bed with a younger sister, Norma Jean, Wanda was thrown off the truck when the vehicle swerved sharply to miss a post. The accident happened at 4:30 p.m. on a road running east-west adjacent to the Phillips Country Club golf course.
The girl's mother told a News-Herald reporter this morning that she was riding in the cab of the truck, driven by her son, George, 18.
"We were driving east toward town after visiting friends and ran into gravel which swerved the truck and I shouted, 'Look out, George, for that post,' whereupon he turned the truck sharply," Mrs. Ball declared.
She said that Wanda Louise fell off the left side of the vehicle. The girl was rushed to North Plains hospital where she died at 5:30 p.m. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter apparently suffered a broken neck.
Besides her parents, she is survived by eight sisters, Mrs. Opal Cowan of Borger, Mrs. Ola Mae Coxof Heath, Ark., Norma Jean, Dorothy Lee, Ruth Evelyn, Nancy, Bertha Fay and Mable Ball, all of Borger; two brothers, George and Cloyd Ball, Jr., both of Borger, and a maternal grandmother, Mrs. W.T. Hughes of Borger.
The body is resting at the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown funeral home pending completion of funeral arrangements.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 29, 1946)
Contributed on 5/7/21
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