Wade Austin White, Jr., 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade A. White, met instant death on Sunday afternoon in the Bear Mountain area, while riding in a jeep driven by George Franks.
The jeep suddenly flipped over on a dirt road and Austin was crushed to death. George escaped injury. The accident occurred about a mile from the White home on the Bear Mountain Road, three miles northwest of Silver City.
Austin White was born April 18, 1942 in Silver City. He graduated from the Silver City Public Schools and was a freshman at New Mexico Western High School, where he was an excellent student and popular among his schoolmates.
Surviving are his parents; two sisters, Patricia and Virginia Ann; a brother, Stephen; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Schroeter of Bayard; an uncle, T.H. Schroeter, Jr. of Silver City; an aunt in Albuquerque and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary H. White of Carrizo, Texas.
The jeep suddenly flipped over on a dirt road and Austin was crushed to death. George escaped injury. The accident occurred about a mile from the White home on the Bear Mountain Road, three miles northwest of Silver City.
Austin White was born April 18, 1942 in Silver City. He graduated from the Silver City Public Schools and was a freshman at New Mexico Western High School, where he was an excellent student and popular among his schoolmates.
Surviving are his parents; two sisters, Patricia and Virginia Ann; a brother, Stephen; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Schroeter of Bayard; an uncle, T.H. Schroeter, Jr. of Silver City; an aunt in Albuquerque and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary H. White of Carrizo, Texas.
Wade Austin White, Jr., 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade A. White, met instant death on Sunday afternoon in the Bear Mountain area, while riding in a jeep driven by George Franks.
The jeep suddenly flipped over on a dirt road and Austin was crushed to death. George escaped injury. The accident occurred about a mile from the White home on the Bear Mountain Road, three miles northwest of Silver City.
Austin White was born April 18, 1942 in Silver City. He graduated from the Silver City Public Schools and was a freshman at New Mexico Western High School, where he was an excellent student and popular among his schoolmates.
Surviving are his parents; two sisters, Patricia and Virginia Ann; a brother, Stephen; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Schroeter of Bayard; an uncle, T.H. Schroeter, Jr. of Silver City; an aunt in Albuquerque and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary H. White of Carrizo, Texas.
The jeep suddenly flipped over on a dirt road and Austin was crushed to death. George escaped injury. The accident occurred about a mile from the White home on the Bear Mountain Road, three miles northwest of Silver City.
Austin White was born April 18, 1942 in Silver City. He graduated from the Silver City Public Schools and was a freshman at New Mexico Western High School, where he was an excellent student and popular among his schoolmates.
Surviving are his parents; two sisters, Patricia and Virginia Ann; a brother, Stephen; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Schroeter of Bayard; an uncle, T.H. Schroeter, Jr. of Silver City; an aunt in Albuquerque and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary H. White of Carrizo, Texas.
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