The following is taken from the Paris Post-Intelligencer:
Mrs. Belinda Carpenter Taylor died at Henry County General Hospital an hour after her car was rammed in the side by a car driven by Stoney Lee Raspberry, 33, of Springville.
The accident at the intersection of Paris Parkway and Dunlap Street occurred at 9 p.m.
Raspberry has been charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of the accident and violation of state registration and driver's license laws.
Police Sgt. James Walker investigation unveiled the following details of the accident.
-Mrs. Taylor's small car, in which her six-year-old daughter Kristen was a passenger, was traveling north on Dunlap. It was struck in the driver's side by the Raspberry car traveling east on the interconnector.
-After his arrest, Raspberry told police he had the green light and didn't see the Taylor car, but did remember hitting it.
-Witnesses to the accident said the Raspberry car had just passed them at a high rate of speed on the Parkway and that he ran the red light.
Young Kristen is hospitalized in serious condition with broken ribs and bruised lungs.
Mrs. Taylor, born Feb 28, 1947, in Oil City, Pa., moved here in 1957 with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. George Carpenter. A 1965 Graduate of E.W. Grove High School, Mrs Taylor was a band majorette and was named "Miss Grove" her senior year. She attended Taylor University in Opland, Ind. She had been separated from her husband, Charles Wesley Taylor, three years.
The body will be cremated and memorial services will be held at First United Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Paul Douglass officiating. There will be not visitation and the family requests donations to the Reelfoot Council of Girl Scouts of America in lieu of flowers.
Aside from her parents, daughter and husband survivors include two brothers, John and David and one sister Wendy
Mrs. Belinda Carpenter Taylor died at Henry County General Hospital an hour after her car was rammed in the side by a car driven by Stoney Lee Raspberry, 33, of Springville.
The accident at the intersection of Paris Parkway and Dunlap Street occurred at 9 p.m.
Raspberry has been charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of the accident and violation of state registration and driver's license laws.
Police Sgt. James Walker investigation unveiled the following details of the accident.
-Mrs. Taylor's small car, in which her six-year-old daughter Kristen was a passenger, was traveling north on Dunlap. It was struck in the driver's side by the Raspberry car traveling east on the interconnector.
-After his arrest, Raspberry told police he had the green light and didn't see the Taylor car, but did remember hitting it.
-Witnesses to the accident said the Raspberry car had just passed them at a high rate of speed on the Parkway and that he ran the red light.
Young Kristen is hospitalized in serious condition with broken ribs and bruised lungs.
Mrs. Taylor, born Feb 28, 1947, in Oil City, Pa., moved here in 1957 with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. George Carpenter. A 1965 Graduate of E.W. Grove High School, Mrs Taylor was a band majorette and was named "Miss Grove" her senior year. She attended Taylor University in Opland, Ind. She had been separated from her husband, Charles Wesley Taylor, three years.
The body will be cremated and memorial services will be held at First United Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Paul Douglass officiating. There will be not visitation and the family requests donations to the Reelfoot Council of Girl Scouts of America in lieu of flowers.
Aside from her parents, daughter and husband survivors include two brothers, John and David and one sister Wendy
The following is taken from the Paris Post-Intelligencer:
Mrs. Belinda Carpenter Taylor died at Henry County General Hospital an hour after her car was rammed in the side by a car driven by Stoney Lee Raspberry, 33, of Springville.
The accident at the intersection of Paris Parkway and Dunlap Street occurred at 9 p.m.
Raspberry has been charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of the accident and violation of state registration and driver's license laws.
Police Sgt. James Walker investigation unveiled the following details of the accident.
-Mrs. Taylor's small car, in which her six-year-old daughter Kristen was a passenger, was traveling north on Dunlap. It was struck in the driver's side by the Raspberry car traveling east on the interconnector.
-After his arrest, Raspberry told police he had the green light and didn't see the Taylor car, but did remember hitting it.
-Witnesses to the accident said the Raspberry car had just passed them at a high rate of speed on the Parkway and that he ran the red light.
Young Kristen is hospitalized in serious condition with broken ribs and bruised lungs.
Mrs. Taylor, born Feb 28, 1947, in Oil City, Pa., moved here in 1957 with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. George Carpenter. A 1965 Graduate of E.W. Grove High School, Mrs Taylor was a band majorette and was named "Miss Grove" her senior year. She attended Taylor University in Opland, Ind. She had been separated from her husband, Charles Wesley Taylor, three years.
The body will be cremated and memorial services will be held at First United Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Paul Douglass officiating. There will be not visitation and the family requests donations to the Reelfoot Council of Girl Scouts of America in lieu of flowers.
Aside from her parents, daughter and husband survivors include two brothers, John and David and one sister Wendy
Mrs. Belinda Carpenter Taylor died at Henry County General Hospital an hour after her car was rammed in the side by a car driven by Stoney Lee Raspberry, 33, of Springville.
The accident at the intersection of Paris Parkway and Dunlap Street occurred at 9 p.m.
Raspberry has been charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of the accident and violation of state registration and driver's license laws.
Police Sgt. James Walker investigation unveiled the following details of the accident.
-Mrs. Taylor's small car, in which her six-year-old daughter Kristen was a passenger, was traveling north on Dunlap. It was struck in the driver's side by the Raspberry car traveling east on the interconnector.
-After his arrest, Raspberry told police he had the green light and didn't see the Taylor car, but did remember hitting it.
-Witnesses to the accident said the Raspberry car had just passed them at a high rate of speed on the Parkway and that he ran the red light.
Young Kristen is hospitalized in serious condition with broken ribs and bruised lungs.
Mrs. Taylor, born Feb 28, 1947, in Oil City, Pa., moved here in 1957 with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. George Carpenter. A 1965 Graduate of E.W. Grove High School, Mrs Taylor was a band majorette and was named "Miss Grove" her senior year. She attended Taylor University in Opland, Ind. She had been separated from her husband, Charles Wesley Taylor, three years.
The body will be cremated and memorial services will be held at First United Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Paul Douglass officiating. There will be not visitation and the family requests donations to the Reelfoot Council of Girl Scouts of America in lieu of flowers.
Aside from her parents, daughter and husband survivors include two brothers, John and David and one sister Wendy
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