Judith Lee Giroux, 7, was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon at about 4:30 when she was struck by a car driven by Ray Edwin Maher, 25, of 38 Jefferson Avenue. Rushed to the Massena Memorial Hospital in the Reagan ambulance, she died just as she was being carried into the door.
An autopsy revealed that death was due to a ruptured spleen and internal hemorrhages. She also had other injuries.
The child, an honor student in the first grade at Harrowgate School, had taken the bus to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Clara Murray, on the Massena-Winthrop Road, about two miles from Massena.
She had alighted from the bus in front of the Murray home, and the bus had started up, had traveled about 100 feet, when the child darted across the highway, according to the investigation made by the state police.
It was the first time the child had ever taken the bus. She had planned to spend the night with her grandmother, who was widowed last October.
She took her first communion at Sacred Heart Church a few weeks ago.
She was born in Massena April 21, 1943, a daughter of Lucien and Evelyn Murray Giroux. Surviving are her parents; a sister, Joan, 14; her maternal grandmother and paternal grandparents, also several aunts and uncles.
Massena Observer
Thursday, June 22, 1950
Judith Lee Giroux, 7, was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon at about 4:30 when she was struck by a car driven by Ray Edwin Maher, 25, of 38 Jefferson Avenue. Rushed to the Massena Memorial Hospital in the Reagan ambulance, she died just as she was being carried into the door.
An autopsy revealed that death was due to a ruptured spleen and internal hemorrhages. She also had other injuries.
The child, an honor student in the first grade at Harrowgate School, had taken the bus to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Clara Murray, on the Massena-Winthrop Road, about two miles from Massena.
She had alighted from the bus in front of the Murray home, and the bus had started up, had traveled about 100 feet, when the child darted across the highway, according to the investigation made by the state police.
It was the first time the child had ever taken the bus. She had planned to spend the night with her grandmother, who was widowed last October.
She took her first communion at Sacred Heart Church a few weeks ago.
She was born in Massena April 21, 1943, a daughter of Lucien and Evelyn Murray Giroux. Surviving are her parents; a sister, Joan, 14; her maternal grandmother and paternal grandparents, also several aunts and uncles.
Massena Observer
Thursday, June 22, 1950
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