Billy Jo Edward Minter |
| Posted 2019-01-14 by Pat R |
| Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Monday, March 10, 1930, p. 7 Crash Victim's Funeral Waits Family's Word Funeral services for Billy Minter, 16 years old, Postal Telegraph messenger boy, who was fatally injured in a bicycle-automobile accident late Saturday night, will be announced today upon receipt of word from relatives in northern Arizona and California. The youth died early yesterday morning at the Good Samaritan hospital after he had been struck by an auto driven by Mrs. L. C. Powers, rural route No. 5, at Sixteenth street and Highland avenue. According to Mrs. Powers' statement at the sheriff's office, she was driving north on Sixteenth street when the boy was on his wheel suddenly appeared in the path of her lights. She swerved the car to the right to avoid hitting him, she said, but the fender and bumper struck him and knocked him to the pavement. He died an hour and a half later at the hospital. Billy Minter is survived by his mother, Mrs. M. J. Minter, 1139 West Fillmore street, his father, and five brothers, William, Herman, Roy, Earl and Charles Minter. William and Earl Minter are in northern Arizona and Roy Minter resides in Jerome. A sister, Elizabeth, resides in California. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Hockrey mortuary. See Also: Find A Grave |
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