Three year old Kathy Marie
Roberson of route 1, Flora was
dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital
in Logansport Thursday
morning at 7:45 following a onecar
accident northeast of Flora a
half hour earlier.
The child’s death was attributed
to a broken neck.
According to State Trooper
Herb Clear, who investigated the
accident, the girl was a passenger
in an auto driven by her mother,
Mrs. Joseph Roberson of route 1,
Flora.
Mrs. Roberson, who had taken
her husband to work in Flora,
was en route north on County
Road 300 East near the intersection
of County Road 300 North
where she apparently failed to see
a washout of a culvert on the
road caused by the torrential
rains on Wednesday night.
The auto bounced across the
culvert washout. The impact
knocked the front end from
underneath the auto.
Kathy Roberson was thrown
underneath the dashboard of the
auto.
Her mother was treated at
Memorial Hospital for lacerations
on her face and possible chest
injuries.
The funeral of the little girl
was Saturday afternoon at 2:00
at the Leiter Funeral Home in
Flora. Rev. Walter Young officiated
and burial was in Musselman
Cemetery near Camden.
She was born December 2,1964.
Surviving are the parents, a
brother, Joe Dean; a sister,
Debbie Sue; the maternal grand-
mother, Mrs. Lula Conklin of
Logansport, and the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Roberson of rural Flora.
Delphi Journal Citizen May 23, 1968
Roberson of route 1, Flora was
dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital
in Logansport Thursday
morning at 7:45 following a onecar
accident northeast of Flora a
half hour earlier.
The child’s death was attributed
to a broken neck.
According to State Trooper
Herb Clear, who investigated the
accident, the girl was a passenger
in an auto driven by her mother,
Mrs. Joseph Roberson of route 1,
Flora.
Mrs. Roberson, who had taken
her husband to work in Flora,
was en route north on County
Road 300 East near the intersection
of County Road 300 North
where she apparently failed to see
a washout of a culvert on the
road caused by the torrential
rains on Wednesday night.
The auto bounced across the
culvert washout. The impact
knocked the front end from
underneath the auto.
Kathy Roberson was thrown
underneath the dashboard of the
auto.
Her mother was treated at
Memorial Hospital for lacerations
on her face and possible chest
injuries.
The funeral of the little girl
was Saturday afternoon at 2:00
at the Leiter Funeral Home in
Flora. Rev. Walter Young officiated
and burial was in Musselman
Cemetery near Camden.
She was born December 2,1964.
Surviving are the parents, a
brother, Joe Dean; a sister,
Debbie Sue; the maternal grand-
mother, Mrs. Lula Conklin of
Logansport, and the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Roberson of rural Flora.
Delphi Journal Citizen May 23, 1968
Three year old Kathy Marie
Roberson of route 1, Flora was
dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital
in Logansport Thursday
morning at 7:45 following a onecar
accident northeast of Flora a
half hour earlier.
The child’s death was attributed
to a broken neck.
According to State Trooper
Herb Clear, who investigated the
accident, the girl was a passenger
in an auto driven by her mother,
Mrs. Joseph Roberson of route 1,
Flora.
Mrs. Roberson, who had taken
her husband to work in Flora,
was en route north on County
Road 300 East near the intersection
of County Road 300 North
where she apparently failed to see
a washout of a culvert on the
road caused by the torrential
rains on Wednesday night.
The auto bounced across the
culvert washout. The impact
knocked the front end from
underneath the auto.
Kathy Roberson was thrown
underneath the dashboard of the
auto.
Her mother was treated at
Memorial Hospital for lacerations
on her face and possible chest
injuries.
The funeral of the little girl
was Saturday afternoon at 2:00
at the Leiter Funeral Home in
Flora. Rev. Walter Young officiated
and burial was in Musselman
Cemetery near Camden.
She was born December 2,1964.
Surviving are the parents, a
brother, Joe Dean; a sister,
Debbie Sue; the maternal grand-
mother, Mrs. Lula Conklin of
Logansport, and the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Roberson of rural Flora.
Delphi Journal Citizen May 23, 1968
Roberson of route 1, Flora was
dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital
in Logansport Thursday
morning at 7:45 following a onecar
accident northeast of Flora a
half hour earlier.
The child’s death was attributed
to a broken neck.
According to State Trooper
Herb Clear, who investigated the
accident, the girl was a passenger
in an auto driven by her mother,
Mrs. Joseph Roberson of route 1,
Flora.
Mrs. Roberson, who had taken
her husband to work in Flora,
was en route north on County
Road 300 East near the intersection
of County Road 300 North
where she apparently failed to see
a washout of a culvert on the
road caused by the torrential
rains on Wednesday night.
The auto bounced across the
culvert washout. The impact
knocked the front end from
underneath the auto.
Kathy Roberson was thrown
underneath the dashboard of the
auto.
Her mother was treated at
Memorial Hospital for lacerations
on her face and possible chest
injuries.
The funeral of the little girl
was Saturday afternoon at 2:00
at the Leiter Funeral Home in
Flora. Rev. Walter Young officiated
and burial was in Musselman
Cemetery near Camden.
She was born December 2,1964.
Surviving are the parents, a
brother, Joe Dean; a sister,
Debbie Sue; the maternal grand-
mother, Mrs. Lula Conklin of
Logansport, and the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Roberson of rural Flora.
Delphi Journal Citizen May 23, 1968
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