Killed when her Jeep went out of control on North Bank Road just off Hwy 42. While crossing a bridge the truck slid along the guard rail and then went over. She was thrown out and the Jeep landed on her. Several people pulled her free and she walked to an ambulance. Being she was 8-9 months pregnant when the doctors heard a heart beat in her stomach area they thought the baby survived. In reality it was Sylvia's dislocated heart they heard. The baby was dead and Sylvia died within hours.
Newspaper article, The World, 27 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed in Crash
Mrs. George Whiting, young mother of five, died late Thursday afternoon in Keiser hospital, North Bend, from injuries suffered shortly after noon Thursday when the jeep she was driving climbed the railing of the North Bank road trestle and fell upside down to the ground below.
Mrs. Whiting was pinned in the wreckage of the vehicle. The Whiting family lives in Greenacres.
Mrs. Whiting's husband was following her in an automobile. He and a Coos county road department truck driver named Northrup lifted Mrs. Whiting from the wreckage.
Whiting told police that the jeep skidded in loose gravel as it rounded the turn from the old section of Highway 101 near the Krome plant, then went out of control.
The bridge railing gave part way as it was struck by the vehicle.
The jeep had a metal top, but that was nearly flattened by the weight of the vehicle. The interior of the car was a shambles. Dr. Leland B. Gould went from Coquille to the accident scene to give first aid, and the Schroder ambulance rushed Mrs. Whiting to Keiser.
Whiting told officers his wife was due to have another child in three weeks. Doctors were unable to save the life of the unborn child, also, as it was injured in the crash.
SAME ARTICLE ONLY Coos Bay Times Friday 21 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed After Jeep Overturns
Picture of George Whiting and Officer John Williams, state police walking around upside down Jeep
Caption reads: George Whiting, Green Acres, and Officer John Williams, state police, at the wrecked jeep in which Mrs. Whiting suffered fatal injuries just before this Times picture was made Thursday afternoon. The jeep, driven by Mrs. Whiting, climbed the North Bank road bridge railing and dropped, upsidedown, to the ground 17 feet below. Mrs. Whiting died at Keizer hospital about four hours after the accident.
Obituary, Coos Bay Times, Sunday 23 November 1952, page 3:
Mrs. Whiting Services To Be Monday
Funeral services for Sylvia Fay Whiting, Green acres, who died Thursday following an accident at the North Bank road bridge near highway 101, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Mills chapel.
The Rev. Nixon Knight will be in charge and burial willl be in Sunset cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, George; five children, Donna Darlene Cotter, Donald Robert Cotter, Thelma, William and Katherine Whiting; mother, Mrs. Katie Adams, Beiber, Calif.; brothers and sisters Mrs. Ivy Haynes, Coos Bay; Mrs. J.C. Luttrell, Greenacres, W. M. and Jack Adams, both of Chiloquin; Mrs. Betty Broberg, Portland, and Ronald Adams, Roseburg.
ORDI:
Name: Whiting, Sylvia F
County: Coos
Death Date: 20 N 1952
Certificate: 12059
Spouse: George
Newspaper article, The World, 27 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed in Crash
Mrs. George Whiting, young mother of five, died late Thursday afternoon in Keiser hospital, North Bend, from injuries suffered shortly after noon Thursday when the jeep she was driving climbed the railing of the North Bank road trestle and fell upside down to the ground below.
Mrs. Whiting was pinned in the wreckage of the vehicle. The Whiting family lives in Greenacres.
Mrs. Whiting's husband was following her in an automobile. He and a Coos county road department truck driver named Northrup lifted Mrs. Whiting from the wreckage.
Whiting told police that the jeep skidded in loose gravel as it rounded the turn from the old section of Highway 101 near the Krome plant, then went out of control.
The bridge railing gave part way as it was struck by the vehicle.
The jeep had a metal top, but that was nearly flattened by the weight of the vehicle. The interior of the car was a shambles. Dr. Leland B. Gould went from Coquille to the accident scene to give first aid, and the Schroder ambulance rushed Mrs. Whiting to Keiser.
Whiting told officers his wife was due to have another child in three weeks. Doctors were unable to save the life of the unborn child, also, as it was injured in the crash.
SAME ARTICLE ONLY Coos Bay Times Friday 21 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed After Jeep Overturns
Picture of George Whiting and Officer John Williams, state police walking around upside down Jeep
Caption reads: George Whiting, Green Acres, and Officer John Williams, state police, at the wrecked jeep in which Mrs. Whiting suffered fatal injuries just before this Times picture was made Thursday afternoon. The jeep, driven by Mrs. Whiting, climbed the North Bank road bridge railing and dropped, upsidedown, to the ground 17 feet below. Mrs. Whiting died at Keizer hospital about four hours after the accident.
Obituary, Coos Bay Times, Sunday 23 November 1952, page 3:
Mrs. Whiting Services To Be Monday
Funeral services for Sylvia Fay Whiting, Green acres, who died Thursday following an accident at the North Bank road bridge near highway 101, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Mills chapel.
The Rev. Nixon Knight will be in charge and burial willl be in Sunset cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, George; five children, Donna Darlene Cotter, Donald Robert Cotter, Thelma, William and Katherine Whiting; mother, Mrs. Katie Adams, Beiber, Calif.; brothers and sisters Mrs. Ivy Haynes, Coos Bay; Mrs. J.C. Luttrell, Greenacres, W. M. and Jack Adams, both of Chiloquin; Mrs. Betty Broberg, Portland, and Ronald Adams, Roseburg.
ORDI:
Name: Whiting, Sylvia F
County: Coos
Death Date: 20 N 1952
Certificate: 12059
Spouse: George
Killed when her Jeep went out of control on North Bank Road just off Hwy 42. While crossing a bridge the truck slid along the guard rail and then went over. She was thrown out and the Jeep landed on her. Several people pulled her free and she walked to an ambulance. Being she was 8-9 months pregnant when the doctors heard a heart beat in her stomach area they thought the baby survived. In reality it was Sylvia's dislocated heart they heard. The baby was dead and Sylvia died within hours.
Newspaper article, The World, 27 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed in Crash
Mrs. George Whiting, young mother of five, died late Thursday afternoon in Keiser hospital, North Bend, from injuries suffered shortly after noon Thursday when the jeep she was driving climbed the railing of the North Bank road trestle and fell upside down to the ground below.
Mrs. Whiting was pinned in the wreckage of the vehicle. The Whiting family lives in Greenacres.
Mrs. Whiting's husband was following her in an automobile. He and a Coos county road department truck driver named Northrup lifted Mrs. Whiting from the wreckage.
Whiting told police that the jeep skidded in loose gravel as it rounded the turn from the old section of Highway 101 near the Krome plant, then went out of control.
The bridge railing gave part way as it was struck by the vehicle.
The jeep had a metal top, but that was nearly flattened by the weight of the vehicle. The interior of the car was a shambles. Dr. Leland B. Gould went from Coquille to the accident scene to give first aid, and the Schroder ambulance rushed Mrs. Whiting to Keiser.
Whiting told officers his wife was due to have another child in three weeks. Doctors were unable to save the life of the unborn child, also, as it was injured in the crash.
SAME ARTICLE ONLY Coos Bay Times Friday 21 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed After Jeep Overturns
Picture of George Whiting and Officer John Williams, state police walking around upside down Jeep
Caption reads: George Whiting, Green Acres, and Officer John Williams, state police, at the wrecked jeep in which Mrs. Whiting suffered fatal injuries just before this Times picture was made Thursday afternoon. The jeep, driven by Mrs. Whiting, climbed the North Bank road bridge railing and dropped, upsidedown, to the ground 17 feet below. Mrs. Whiting died at Keizer hospital about four hours after the accident.
Obituary, Coos Bay Times, Sunday 23 November 1952, page 3:
Mrs. Whiting Services To Be Monday
Funeral services for Sylvia Fay Whiting, Green acres, who died Thursday following an accident at the North Bank road bridge near highway 101, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Mills chapel.
The Rev. Nixon Knight will be in charge and burial willl be in Sunset cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, George; five children, Donna Darlene Cotter, Donald Robert Cotter, Thelma, William and Katherine Whiting; mother, Mrs. Katie Adams, Beiber, Calif.; brothers and sisters Mrs. Ivy Haynes, Coos Bay; Mrs. J.C. Luttrell, Greenacres, W. M. and Jack Adams, both of Chiloquin; Mrs. Betty Broberg, Portland, and Ronald Adams, Roseburg.
ORDI:
Name: Whiting, Sylvia F
County: Coos
Death Date: 20 N 1952
Certificate: 12059
Spouse: George
Newspaper article, The World, 27 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed in Crash
Mrs. George Whiting, young mother of five, died late Thursday afternoon in Keiser hospital, North Bend, from injuries suffered shortly after noon Thursday when the jeep she was driving climbed the railing of the North Bank road trestle and fell upside down to the ground below.
Mrs. Whiting was pinned in the wreckage of the vehicle. The Whiting family lives in Greenacres.
Mrs. Whiting's husband was following her in an automobile. He and a Coos county road department truck driver named Northrup lifted Mrs. Whiting from the wreckage.
Whiting told police that the jeep skidded in loose gravel as it rounded the turn from the old section of Highway 101 near the Krome plant, then went out of control.
The bridge railing gave part way as it was struck by the vehicle.
The jeep had a metal top, but that was nearly flattened by the weight of the vehicle. The interior of the car was a shambles. Dr. Leland B. Gould went from Coquille to the accident scene to give first aid, and the Schroder ambulance rushed Mrs. Whiting to Keiser.
Whiting told officers his wife was due to have another child in three weeks. Doctors were unable to save the life of the unborn child, also, as it was injured in the crash.
SAME ARTICLE ONLY Coos Bay Times Friday 21 November 1952:
Expectant Mother Killed After Jeep Overturns
Picture of George Whiting and Officer John Williams, state police walking around upside down Jeep
Caption reads: George Whiting, Green Acres, and Officer John Williams, state police, at the wrecked jeep in which Mrs. Whiting suffered fatal injuries just before this Times picture was made Thursday afternoon. The jeep, driven by Mrs. Whiting, climbed the North Bank road bridge railing and dropped, upsidedown, to the ground 17 feet below. Mrs. Whiting died at Keizer hospital about four hours after the accident.
Obituary, Coos Bay Times, Sunday 23 November 1952, page 3:
Mrs. Whiting Services To Be Monday
Funeral services for Sylvia Fay Whiting, Green acres, who died Thursday following an accident at the North Bank road bridge near highway 101, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Mills chapel.
The Rev. Nixon Knight will be in charge and burial willl be in Sunset cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, George; five children, Donna Darlene Cotter, Donald Robert Cotter, Thelma, William and Katherine Whiting; mother, Mrs. Katie Adams, Beiber, Calif.; brothers and sisters Mrs. Ivy Haynes, Coos Bay; Mrs. J.C. Luttrell, Greenacres, W. M. and Jack Adams, both of Chiloquin; Mrs. Betty Broberg, Portland, and Ronald Adams, Roseburg.
ORDI:
Name: Whiting, Sylvia F
County: Coos
Death Date: 20 N 1952
Certificate: 12059
Spouse: George
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