Mother Alice C (Wilson) Garland.
Neil died as the result of a car accident on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Info provided by F.A.G. member Elsie Harmon (#47030676).
Tuesday, October 8, 1963 Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) Page 3
DIXON - Neil Garland, 21, 1501 E. 18th St., Sterling, a sailor, who had just completed a three year hitch in the Navy, was killed instantly early Sunday morning when his car went out of control and struck a utility pole on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Garland was pronounced dead at the scene by Lee County Coroner Robert Preston of Dixon. Preston said death was due to a skull fracture.
Police said Garland's car went out of control at about 2:45 a.m. It went off the road onto the right shoulder, climbed an embankment and struck the utility pole.
Garland, son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garland, had served on the USS William M. Hood as a boiler tender third class. He attended St. Andrews School at Rock Falls and graduated from Newman High School in Sterling in 1960.
He is survived b his parents; one brother, David J., Waukegan; one sister, Gloria Ann at home; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary O. Garland, Sterling, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Wilson, Dixon.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Grennan and Son Funeral Home in Sterling and at 9:30 a.m. in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Friends may call at the funeral home where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight.
Neil died as the result of a car accident on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Info provided by F.A.G. member Elsie Harmon (#47030676).
Tuesday, October 8, 1963 Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) Page 3
DIXON - Neil Garland, 21, 1501 E. 18th St., Sterling, a sailor, who had just completed a three year hitch in the Navy, was killed instantly early Sunday morning when his car went out of control and struck a utility pole on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Garland was pronounced dead at the scene by Lee County Coroner Robert Preston of Dixon. Preston said death was due to a skull fracture.
Police said Garland's car went out of control at about 2:45 a.m. It went off the road onto the right shoulder, climbed an embankment and struck the utility pole.
Garland, son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garland, had served on the USS William M. Hood as a boiler tender third class. He attended St. Andrews School at Rock Falls and graduated from Newman High School in Sterling in 1960.
He is survived b his parents; one brother, David J., Waukegan; one sister, Gloria Ann at home; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary O. Garland, Sterling, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Wilson, Dixon.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Grennan and Son Funeral Home in Sterling and at 9:30 a.m. in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Friends may call at the funeral home where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight.
Mother Alice C (Wilson) Garland.
Neil died as the result of a car accident on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Info provided by F.A.G. member Elsie Harmon (#47030676).
Tuesday, October 8, 1963 Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) Page 3
DIXON - Neil Garland, 21, 1501 E. 18th St., Sterling, a sailor, who had just completed a three year hitch in the Navy, was killed instantly early Sunday morning when his car went out of control and struck a utility pole on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Garland was pronounced dead at the scene by Lee County Coroner Robert Preston of Dixon. Preston said death was due to a skull fracture.
Police said Garland's car went out of control at about 2:45 a.m. It went off the road onto the right shoulder, climbed an embankment and struck the utility pole.
Garland, son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garland, had served on the USS William M. Hood as a boiler tender third class. He attended St. Andrews School at Rock Falls and graduated from Newman High School in Sterling in 1960.
He is survived b his parents; one brother, David J., Waukegan; one sister, Gloria Ann at home; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary O. Garland, Sterling, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Wilson, Dixon.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Grennan and Son Funeral Home in Sterling and at 9:30 a.m. in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Friends may call at the funeral home where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight.
Neil died as the result of a car accident on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Info provided by F.A.G. member Elsie Harmon (#47030676).
Tuesday, October 8, 1963 Morning Star (Rockford, Illinois) Page 3
DIXON - Neil Garland, 21, 1501 E. 18th St., Sterling, a sailor, who had just completed a three year hitch in the Navy, was killed instantly early Sunday morning when his car went out of control and struck a utility pole on the Rock Island blacktop about 2 miles west of Dixon.
Garland was pronounced dead at the scene by Lee County Coroner Robert Preston of Dixon. Preston said death was due to a skull fracture.
Police said Garland's car went out of control at about 2:45 a.m. It went off the road onto the right shoulder, climbed an embankment and struck the utility pole.
Garland, son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Garland, had served on the USS William M. Hood as a boiler tender third class. He attended St. Andrews School at Rock Falls and graduated from Newman High School in Sterling in 1960.
He is survived b his parents; one brother, David J., Waukegan; one sister, Gloria Ann at home; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary O. Garland, Sterling, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Wilson, Dixon.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Grennan and Son Funeral Home in Sterling and at 9:30 a.m. in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Friends may call at the funeral home where the rosary will be recited at 8 tonight.
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