A retired rural Latham farmer, driving across the Illinois Central Railroad tracks near downtown Latham, was struck and killed at 3:45 Wedenesday afternoon by an eastbound freight train.
Dead at the scene, after his car was struck broadside, was 70 year-old Henry Hall.
State Police said Hall stopped at the railroad crossing on Main Street, then started across the tracks and was hit by the train. The car was dragged about 150 feet down the train before the train stopped.
The train, driven by Charles E. Carlyle, 40 of Mattoon, was traveling about 35 miles an hour, police said.
The impact caused approximately $250 damage to the traqin.
Funeral services for Hall will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Brintlinger's Funeral Home, Decatur, where friends may call after 1 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Lake Bank Cemetery.
Hall was born in Latham, and married Dorothy Barbara Cooper in Decatur on Sept. 2, 1945.
He had served as a secretary and treasurer of the cemetery boards of Lake Bankand Two Mill Grove cemeteries.
He was a 1927 graduate of Millikin University, and a member of the First baptist Church, Decatur; the Decatur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Logan County Farm Bureau.
He leaves his wife and one nephew, James A. Cooper, Decatur.
The family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Decatur.
"Henry must have crossed this track a thousand times," a Latham resident said at the scene of the crash
Decatur Review Thursday April 20, 1972
Dead at the scene, after his car was struck broadside, was 70 year-old Henry Hall.
State Police said Hall stopped at the railroad crossing on Main Street, then started across the tracks and was hit by the train. The car was dragged about 150 feet down the train before the train stopped.
The train, driven by Charles E. Carlyle, 40 of Mattoon, was traveling about 35 miles an hour, police said.
The impact caused approximately $250 damage to the traqin.
Funeral services for Hall will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Brintlinger's Funeral Home, Decatur, where friends may call after 1 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Lake Bank Cemetery.
Hall was born in Latham, and married Dorothy Barbara Cooper in Decatur on Sept. 2, 1945.
He had served as a secretary and treasurer of the cemetery boards of Lake Bankand Two Mill Grove cemeteries.
He was a 1927 graduate of Millikin University, and a member of the First baptist Church, Decatur; the Decatur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Logan County Farm Bureau.
He leaves his wife and one nephew, James A. Cooper, Decatur.
The family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Decatur.
"Henry must have crossed this track a thousand times," a Latham resident said at the scene of the crash
Decatur Review Thursday April 20, 1972
A retired rural Latham farmer, driving across the Illinois Central Railroad tracks near downtown Latham, was struck and killed at 3:45 Wedenesday afternoon by an eastbound freight train.
Dead at the scene, after his car was struck broadside, was 70 year-old Henry Hall.
State Police said Hall stopped at the railroad crossing on Main Street, then started across the tracks and was hit by the train. The car was dragged about 150 feet down the train before the train stopped.
The train, driven by Charles E. Carlyle, 40 of Mattoon, was traveling about 35 miles an hour, police said.
The impact caused approximately $250 damage to the traqin.
Funeral services for Hall will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Brintlinger's Funeral Home, Decatur, where friends may call after 1 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Lake Bank Cemetery.
Hall was born in Latham, and married Dorothy Barbara Cooper in Decatur on Sept. 2, 1945.
He had served as a secretary and treasurer of the cemetery boards of Lake Bankand Two Mill Grove cemeteries.
He was a 1927 graduate of Millikin University, and a member of the First baptist Church, Decatur; the Decatur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Logan County Farm Bureau.
He leaves his wife and one nephew, James A. Cooper, Decatur.
The family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Decatur.
"Henry must have crossed this track a thousand times," a Latham resident said at the scene of the crash
Decatur Review Thursday April 20, 1972
Dead at the scene, after his car was struck broadside, was 70 year-old Henry Hall.
State Police said Hall stopped at the railroad crossing on Main Street, then started across the tracks and was hit by the train. The car was dragged about 150 feet down the train before the train stopped.
The train, driven by Charles E. Carlyle, 40 of Mattoon, was traveling about 35 miles an hour, police said.
The impact caused approximately $250 damage to the traqin.
Funeral services for Hall will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Brintlinger's Funeral Home, Decatur, where friends may call after 1 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Lake Bank Cemetery.
Hall was born in Latham, and married Dorothy Barbara Cooper in Decatur on Sept. 2, 1945.
He had served as a secretary and treasurer of the cemetery boards of Lake Bankand Two Mill Grove cemeteries.
He was a 1927 graduate of Millikin University, and a member of the First baptist Church, Decatur; the Decatur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Logan County Farm Bureau.
He leaves his wife and one nephew, James A. Cooper, Decatur.
The family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Decatur.
"Henry must have crossed this track a thousand times," a Latham resident said at the scene of the crash
Decatur Review Thursday April 20, 1972
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