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Gerald Eugene Holloway

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Gerald Eugene Holloway

Birth
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Death
15 Aug 1947 (aged 13)
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Mid-south, Row 18
Memorial ID
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Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Friday, August 15, 1947

Funeral services for Gerald Eugene HOLLOWAY, 13, whose life was puffed out Thursday under the wheels of a truck loaded with five tons of lime, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. George CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the Citizens cemetery. The youth was playing along the lane leading to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elven "Peck" HOLLOWAY, R.R. 6, when his brother, Lester, 2 drove the truck toward the house. The boy made a jump for the running board of the vehicle while it was still moving. He slipped and fell under the left rear dual wheel of the lime-loaded truck. Gerald was born May 11, 1934, and would have been a student in the seventh grade at Reiter school this year. He is survived by the parents; seven brothers, Russell] and Howard [HOLLOWAY]; of Logansport, Harvey, Lester, Bernard, Walter and Marvin [HOLLOWAY] of Rochester; and two sisters, Wanda and Rosemary [HOLLOWAY], at home. The body lies in state at the Foster funeral home.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1947 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Friday, August 15, 1947

Funeral services for Gerald Eugene HOLLOWAY, 13, whose life was puffed out Thursday under the wheels of a truck loaded with five tons of lime, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. George CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the Citizens cemetery. The youth was playing along the lane leading to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elven "Peck" HOLLOWAY, R.R. 6, when his brother, Lester, 2 drove the truck toward the house. The boy made a jump for the running board of the vehicle while it was still moving. He slipped and fell under the left rear dual wheel of the lime-loaded truck. Gerald was born May 11, 1934, and would have been a student in the seventh grade at Reiter school this year. He is survived by the parents; seven brothers, Russell] and Howard [HOLLOWAY]; of Logansport, Harvey, Lester, Bernard, Walter and Marvin [HOLLOWAY] of Rochester; and two sisters, Wanda and Rosemary [HOLLOWAY], at home. The body lies in state at the Foster funeral home.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1947 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh


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