EGELHOFF, Phyllis

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ June 21 1945, p. 1 Woman, 29, First Highway Fatality Here Killed Instantly Near Massacre Monument As Tire Blows On Car Blowing out of a rear tire caused the Wickenburg area’s first automobile fatality of 1945 last Friday evening when Mrs. Phyllis Egelhoff, 29-year-old Los Angeles woman met instant death on the California highway a few miles west of Wickenburg near the Massacre monument. Her husband, John Egelhoff and 5-year-old daughter, Susan, were seriously injured and were taken to the Wickenburg hospital and later to Phoenix. Mrs. Egelhoff was driving the car, according to Arizona Highway Patrolman Dick Underwood, who reached the scene of the accident within 15 minutes after it occurred, to find the woman dead of head and chest injuries. The car had skidded down the highway nearly 175 feet and had apparently rolled over several times. Relatives of the family came here from Phoenix to take the injured people to that city.