Woman Of Near Rails Killed In Auto Accident
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, Sister Of 2 Lubbock Men, Is Plains' First 1940 Traffic Fatality
Special To The Avalanche) RALLS, Jan. 3.—
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, about 45, became the first South Plains accident fatality of 1940 when she died tonight in an automobile crash. She was killed almost instantly about 7 o'clock when the car she was driving overturned after striking a culvert six miles south of Rails.
She was the sister of W. Paul Basinger, Lubbock tailor of 1907 Avenue M, and Albert Basinger, also of Lubbock. She was riding alone when the accident happened.
Witnesses said Mrs. Anthony was driving closely behind a heavy truck and that a Crosbyton woman in another car followed the mishap victim. Without warning the car left the highway on the right and struck the culvert. The car was badly damaged.
Mrs. Anthony had brought her husband, a farmer of eight miles south of town, to Rails.
Mr. Anthony got into the car of L. V. Miller to go to Fort Worth and both can left town about the same time. Mr. Anthony was notified of the accident at Guthrie tonight and had returned here.
Funeral To Be Today
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Methodist Church at Southland. Rev. R. T. Dyers of Robertson community Methodist Church and Rev. H. B. Coggin, pastor of the Southland Church, will officiate. Burial will be directed by Marr Funeral home of Rails in Southland Cemetery.
The Anthonys had lived In Ralls community about. 10 years.
Surviving besides the husband and the two Lubbock brothers are six sons, Perry of Seagraves, Howard of Snyder and Clyde, Albert, Billy and Edward Lee, all of Rails; a daughter. Mary of Rails; her father. E. N. Basinger of Southland; three other brothers, G. W., W. A. and T. H. Basinger, all of Southland.
Lubbock Morning Journal (Lubbock, TX), 4 January 1940, Thursday
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, Sister Of 2 Lubbock Men, Is Plains' First 1940 Traffic Fatality
Special To The Avalanche) RALLS, Jan. 3.—
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, about 45, became the first South Plains accident fatality of 1940 when she died tonight in an automobile crash. She was killed almost instantly about 7 o'clock when the car she was driving overturned after striking a culvert six miles south of Rails.
She was the sister of W. Paul Basinger, Lubbock tailor of 1907 Avenue M, and Albert Basinger, also of Lubbock. She was riding alone when the accident happened.
Witnesses said Mrs. Anthony was driving closely behind a heavy truck and that a Crosbyton woman in another car followed the mishap victim. Without warning the car left the highway on the right and struck the culvert. The car was badly damaged.
Mrs. Anthony had brought her husband, a farmer of eight miles south of town, to Rails.
Mr. Anthony got into the car of L. V. Miller to go to Fort Worth and both can left town about the same time. Mr. Anthony was notified of the accident at Guthrie tonight and had returned here.
Funeral To Be Today
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Methodist Church at Southland. Rev. R. T. Dyers of Robertson community Methodist Church and Rev. H. B. Coggin, pastor of the Southland Church, will officiate. Burial will be directed by Marr Funeral home of Rails in Southland Cemetery.
The Anthonys had lived In Ralls community about. 10 years.
Surviving besides the husband and the two Lubbock brothers are six sons, Perry of Seagraves, Howard of Snyder and Clyde, Albert, Billy and Edward Lee, all of Rails; a daughter. Mary of Rails; her father. E. N. Basinger of Southland; three other brothers, G. W., W. A. and T. H. Basinger, all of Southland.
Lubbock Morning Journal (Lubbock, TX), 4 January 1940, Thursday
Woman Of Near Rails Killed In Auto Accident
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, Sister Of 2 Lubbock Men, Is Plains' First 1940 Traffic Fatality
Special To The Avalanche) RALLS, Jan. 3.—
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, about 45, became the first South Plains accident fatality of 1940 when she died tonight in an automobile crash. She was killed almost instantly about 7 o'clock when the car she was driving overturned after striking a culvert six miles south of Rails.
She was the sister of W. Paul Basinger, Lubbock tailor of 1907 Avenue M, and Albert Basinger, also of Lubbock. She was riding alone when the accident happened.
Witnesses said Mrs. Anthony was driving closely behind a heavy truck and that a Crosbyton woman in another car followed the mishap victim. Without warning the car left the highway on the right and struck the culvert. The car was badly damaged.
Mrs. Anthony had brought her husband, a farmer of eight miles south of town, to Rails.
Mr. Anthony got into the car of L. V. Miller to go to Fort Worth and both can left town about the same time. Mr. Anthony was notified of the accident at Guthrie tonight and had returned here.
Funeral To Be Today
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Methodist Church at Southland. Rev. R. T. Dyers of Robertson community Methodist Church and Rev. H. B. Coggin, pastor of the Southland Church, will officiate. Burial will be directed by Marr Funeral home of Rails in Southland Cemetery.
The Anthonys had lived In Ralls community about. 10 years.
Surviving besides the husband and the two Lubbock brothers are six sons, Perry of Seagraves, Howard of Snyder and Clyde, Albert, Billy and Edward Lee, all of Rails; a daughter. Mary of Rails; her father. E. N. Basinger of Southland; three other brothers, G. W., W. A. and T. H. Basinger, all of Southland.
Lubbock Morning Journal (Lubbock, TX), 4 January 1940, Thursday
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, Sister Of 2 Lubbock Men, Is Plains' First 1940 Traffic Fatality
Special To The Avalanche) RALLS, Jan. 3.—
Mrs. Sam D. Anthony, about 45, became the first South Plains accident fatality of 1940 when she died tonight in an automobile crash. She was killed almost instantly about 7 o'clock when the car she was driving overturned after striking a culvert six miles south of Rails.
She was the sister of W. Paul Basinger, Lubbock tailor of 1907 Avenue M, and Albert Basinger, also of Lubbock. She was riding alone when the accident happened.
Witnesses said Mrs. Anthony was driving closely behind a heavy truck and that a Crosbyton woman in another car followed the mishap victim. Without warning the car left the highway on the right and struck the culvert. The car was badly damaged.
Mrs. Anthony had brought her husband, a farmer of eight miles south of town, to Rails.
Mr. Anthony got into the car of L. V. Miller to go to Fort Worth and both can left town about the same time. Mr. Anthony was notified of the accident at Guthrie tonight and had returned here.
Funeral To Be Today
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Methodist Church at Southland. Rev. R. T. Dyers of Robertson community Methodist Church and Rev. H. B. Coggin, pastor of the Southland Church, will officiate. Burial will be directed by Marr Funeral home of Rails in Southland Cemetery.
The Anthonys had lived In Ralls community about. 10 years.
Surviving besides the husband and the two Lubbock brothers are six sons, Perry of Seagraves, Howard of Snyder and Clyde, Albert, Billy and Edward Lee, all of Rails; a daughter. Mary of Rails; her father. E. N. Basinger of Southland; three other brothers, G. W., W. A. and T. H. Basinger, all of Southland.
Lubbock Morning Journal (Lubbock, TX), 4 January 1940, Thursday
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