EDNA L. SMITH
1961-1961
Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 p.m., Friday, September 8, at
the Jones Preston Funeral Home for six-week-old Edna Lee Smith, who
died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Pikeville
Tuesday.
The following account of the accident appeared in the Pike County
News:
“A six-week-old girl was fatally injured in a four-vehicle accident
near here Tuesday, Kentucky State Police Reported.
“The child, listed as Edna Lee Smith, daughter of Francis M.
(Stafford) Smith, 39, and Dixie Smith, 23, of Atlanta, Ga., died at
12:30 a.m., Wednesday at the Memorial Medical Center at South
Williamson. She was removed there after first being taken to the
Pikeville Memorial Hospital. It was reported that the child suffered
a skull fracture.”
“Smith, listed as driver of one of the vehicles, and his wife and
daughter were returning to Atlanta after visiting the child’s
grandmother, Mrs. Edna Smith at Paintsville, when the accident
occurred, a funeral home attendant said.
“The only other person reported taken to the hospital was the child’s
mother, and she was not seriously injured, the state police report
indicated.
“Trooper Elmer Mobley, investigating officer, said the accident
occurred seven- tenths of a mile south of Pikeville on U. S. Highway
No. 23 about 10:30 a.m., Tuesday.
“Mobley and Smith was driving south and that a car, driven by Karen
Hyden, 19, of Hellier, was proceeding north and that another car,
driven by Charles Moore, 44, of Virgie, was traveling north behind
Karen Hyden.
“Mobley said Karen Hyden turned left near the Vanderbilt Tire Service
and collided with the car driven by Smith and that Smith’s car then
struck a vehicle, unoccupied, and which was parked eight feet off the
highway on the left side of the road as one proceeds north along the
highway. The parked vehicle’s owner was listed as Douglas Johnson of
Virgie.
“Mobley said Karen Hyden stated that the vehicle she was driving was
struck from behind by Moore’s car and knocked into the path of the
car driven by Smith.
“The state police report indicated that Moore’s vehicle struck the
care driven by Karen Hyden after she had collided with the Atlanta
man’s car.
“Mobley said Moore stated that he did not run into Karen Hyden’s car
but that her vehicle was knocked backward against his.
“Mobley said Smith’s car and the car driven by Karen Hyden were badly
damaged and that the other two vehicles suffered lesser damages.
“Karen Hyden on Tuesday was cited on a charge of failing to yield the
right of way to another vehicle, the state police report indicated.”
Surviving besides the parents are the grandmother, Mrs. Edna Stafford
Smith, City; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Stewart, Atlanta,
Ga.; an uncle, Rev. Frederick Smith; two aunts, Miss Martha Mary
Smith and Mrs. Betty Smith; a great-aunt, Miss Mae Stafford of this
city, and a great-uncle, DeWitt T. Stafford also of this city.
Services were conducted by Rev. Charles Perry and Rev. Robert Hart,
Jr. Burial was in the Stafford Cemetery in this city.
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
13 Sep. 1961
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