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Submitted: 2/9/21 • Approved: 2/9/21 • Last Updated: 2/12/21 • R387746-G0-S3
1976-1978
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for the two Borger boys killed Thursday in a head-on collision on Texas 136 south of Fritch will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Minton Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Richard Neyer, pastor of St. John's Catholic Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park by Minton Mortuary.
The mother of the two boys, Mrs. Sherrian Hill, 27, remained in critical condition Saturday night in the intensive care unit of Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.
Killed in the accident were Daniel Clay Hill, 6, and his brother, Theodore James Hill, 2. The younger child was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. His brother died en route to Amarillo Emergency Receiving Center.
The driver of the other vehicle, Ronald Wade Martin, 34, of Borger, was treated for lacerations and was admitted at North Plains Hospital for observation. He was listed Saturday evening in satisfactory condition at the local hospital.
Department of Public Safety troopers have questioned the driver of a pickup believed to have left the scene after the accident. DPS officials said the driver failed to stop and render aid after the accident occurred.
According to the DPS report of the accident, Mrs. Hill and the driver of the pickup, both southbound, simultaneously pulled out to pass a tractor-trailer rig.
Martin, traveling north, swerved into a ditch to avoid the oncoming cars and collided head-on with the Hill vehicle.
DPS troopers said Theodore died when he was thrown from the auto on impact. Daniel was pronounced dead on arrival at AERC.
Mrs. Hill's husband, Jeff, is an employee of Santa Fe Railway in Borger.
The children are survived by their parents; grandparents, Ted A. Hill of Pinetop, Ariz., and W.M. Logsdon of Lubbock; and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Mildred Logsdon of Lubbock.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, June 4, 1978)
Contributed on 2/9/21 by neldapat
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