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Obituary- Medley, Phyllis

CHILD KILLED IN A CRASH

An 18-months-old girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Medley, of Tampa, Marion county, was fatally injured last Friday night when the car driven by Medley collided with a car driven by Roy Kirk, insurance dealer of Topeka, near the Emert place west of Rossville.

Both cars were wrecked. The Medley baby died in St. Francis hospital about two hours later. Mr. and Mrs. Medley and their son received severe bruises. Kirk received fractures of his rib and knee cap.

Kirk was taken to Stormont hospital. The cars crashed when Kirk made a desperate and successful attempt to avoid striking a vehicle driven by Chester Bellman, who was on his way from Rossville to his home on the John Kesler place. As Kirk swung around the wagon the Medley car, a model T. Ford, with dim lights, appeared thru the rain that was falling. The cars met head on, and were so badly wrecked they had to be towed away.

Passersby took the victims of the accident to St. Francis and Stormont hospitals. Ernest Quigley famed athletic official on his way to his home at St. Marys for Christmas helped aid the injured persons.

The Medley child, Phillis, died soon after reaching St. Francis hospital. She had received a skull fracture. Kirk was sent to Stormont hospital.

The death of the Medley baby is the twenty-sixth death in Shawnee county resulting from a motor car accident. The child’s body was sent to Brennan’s undertaking establishment.