The Miller County Sentinel, September 16, 1954
A well known Miller County woman, Mrs. Gertrude O. Maylee, 48, of Eldon, was killed instantly late Friday afternoon when her car overturned
three times and hurtled over an embankment a short distance east of the intersection of highways 17 and 54. The State Highway Patrol said Mrs.
Maylee, rounding a curve heading toward Eldon on highway 54, veered off on the right shoulder, lost control of the car, swung across the highway and
turned over three times before the car went over the 12-foot embankment.
Mrs. Maylee, who was traveling alone in the 1954 model car, was thrown from the vehicle, and died of head injuries. She was returning from
Wellsville, Mo., where she was employed to teach school.
For many years Mrs. Maylee taught in the rural schools of Miller County. Prior to moving to Eldon, she and her husband, R.B. (Bob) and their
two children resided in Tuscumbia where Mr. Maylee was Circuit of Miller County for two terms. For the past several years Mr. Maylee has been employed by Clark Bros. of Eldon as a car and farm implement salesman.
She was a graduate of Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. Her daughter, Mrs. John Vernon, teaches school at Richland. Robert, a son, was recently discharged from the Navy and plans to enter the University of Missouri. Also surviving are her father, Theodore Martin of Ulman and a brother, Frank Martin of Tuscumbia.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Eldon Christian Church and interment was in the Tuscumbia Cemetery.
A well known Miller County woman, Mrs. Gertrude O. Maylee, 48, of Eldon, was killed instantly late Friday afternoon when her car overturned
three times and hurtled over an embankment a short distance east of the intersection of highways 17 and 54. The State Highway Patrol said Mrs.
Maylee, rounding a curve heading toward Eldon on highway 54, veered off on the right shoulder, lost control of the car, swung across the highway and
turned over three times before the car went over the 12-foot embankment.
Mrs. Maylee, who was traveling alone in the 1954 model car, was thrown from the vehicle, and died of head injuries. She was returning from
Wellsville, Mo., where she was employed to teach school.
For many years Mrs. Maylee taught in the rural schools of Miller County. Prior to moving to Eldon, she and her husband, R.B. (Bob) and their
two children resided in Tuscumbia where Mr. Maylee was Circuit of Miller County for two terms. For the past several years Mr. Maylee has been employed by Clark Bros. of Eldon as a car and farm implement salesman.
She was a graduate of Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. Her daughter, Mrs. John Vernon, teaches school at Richland. Robert, a son, was recently discharged from the Navy and plans to enter the University of Missouri. Also surviving are her father, Theodore Martin of Ulman and a brother, Frank Martin of Tuscumbia.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Eldon Christian Church and interment was in the Tuscumbia Cemetery.
The Miller County Sentinel, September 16, 1954
A well known Miller County woman, Mrs. Gertrude O. Maylee, 48, of Eldon, was killed instantly late Friday afternoon when her car overturned
three times and hurtled over an embankment a short distance east of the intersection of highways 17 and 54. The State Highway Patrol said Mrs.
Maylee, rounding a curve heading toward Eldon on highway 54, veered off on the right shoulder, lost control of the car, swung across the highway and
turned over three times before the car went over the 12-foot embankment.
Mrs. Maylee, who was traveling alone in the 1954 model car, was thrown from the vehicle, and died of head injuries. She was returning from
Wellsville, Mo., where she was employed to teach school.
For many years Mrs. Maylee taught in the rural schools of Miller County. Prior to moving to Eldon, she and her husband, R.B. (Bob) and their
two children resided in Tuscumbia where Mr. Maylee was Circuit of Miller County for two terms. For the past several years Mr. Maylee has been employed by Clark Bros. of Eldon as a car and farm implement salesman.
She was a graduate of Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. Her daughter, Mrs. John Vernon, teaches school at Richland. Robert, a son, was recently discharged from the Navy and plans to enter the University of Missouri. Also surviving are her father, Theodore Martin of Ulman and a brother, Frank Martin of Tuscumbia.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Eldon Christian Church and interment was in the Tuscumbia Cemetery.
A well known Miller County woman, Mrs. Gertrude O. Maylee, 48, of Eldon, was killed instantly late Friday afternoon when her car overturned
three times and hurtled over an embankment a short distance east of the intersection of highways 17 and 54. The State Highway Patrol said Mrs.
Maylee, rounding a curve heading toward Eldon on highway 54, veered off on the right shoulder, lost control of the car, swung across the highway and
turned over three times before the car went over the 12-foot embankment.
Mrs. Maylee, who was traveling alone in the 1954 model car, was thrown from the vehicle, and died of head injuries. She was returning from
Wellsville, Mo., where she was employed to teach school.
For many years Mrs. Maylee taught in the rural schools of Miller County. Prior to moving to Eldon, she and her husband, R.B. (Bob) and their
two children resided in Tuscumbia where Mr. Maylee was Circuit of Miller County for two terms. For the past several years Mr. Maylee has been employed by Clark Bros. of Eldon as a car and farm implement salesman.
She was a graduate of Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. Her daughter, Mrs. John Vernon, teaches school at Richland. Robert, a son, was recently discharged from the Navy and plans to enter the University of Missouri. Also surviving are her father, Theodore Martin of Ulman and a brother, Frank Martin of Tuscumbia.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Eldon Christian Church and interment was in the Tuscumbia Cemetery.
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