Instantly Killed in Auto Crash
One young man was killed instantly and his wo companions injured 9 October [1955] when the car in which they were riding sideswiped one utility pole and crashed head on into another, along Route 209 at Big Run, west of Lykens.
Ronald L. Minnich, 22, an ex-GI, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Minnich, Millersburg R.D. 1, died of a fractured scull and fractures of the right arm and right leg.
His companion, Evan Shaffer, 22 son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Shaffer, and John L. Mattis, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mattis, all of Elizabethville, were removed to the Polyclinic Hospital at Harrisburg. Shaffer suffered rib fractures and lacerations of the head and remains a patient at the hospital. Mattis was treated for cuts and abrasions and was discharged. He is able to be about. Shaffer and Mattis are also ex-GI’s.
Ronald Minnich was employed by the H. J. Williams Company, of York, on road construction work. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Berrysburg, and Lodge 59, Loyal Order of Moose, Millersburg.
Surviving, in addition to his parents, are two brothers, Roger Minnich and Edward Minnich, at home; a sister, Mrs. George Dockey, Gratz; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Boyer, Herndon, and his great-grandmother, Mrs. Alice Minnich, Berrysburg.
Services were held from the Hoover Funeral Home, Berrysburg, Wednesday at 2 p.m., with Rev. Lawrence Delp officiating, with interment in St. John’s Cemetery.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death.
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