Union City Times-Gazette,Wed., Jan. 5,1949
Girl,8,Is Killed By Motorist--Oneida Mills, Former McKinley Pupil,Is Victim Of Tragedy.
Eight-year-old Oneida Gay Mills, came back to Winchester Tuesday night, her youthful laughter stilled,her young life snuffed out in a tragic accident near Albany a few hours earlier.
Her body lays at the Summers Funeral Home.
Just last week Oneida's parents,Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Mills, had moved with their family to a farm near Albany from their home southwest of Winchester.
She was struck by a car as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home, a quarter mile southeast of Albany on state road 67, and died almost instantly, her neck broken.
Funeral services had not been completed at noon today.
Surviving,other than the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay, a twin,and Vivian;three brothers, Wallace, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
The Mills family,according to J.R. Clark,principal of the McKinley school where Oneida had been a third grade pupil, lived on the Ace Martin farm just south of the county highway barn on the Huntsville road.
Oneida was finishing her first day as pupil at DeSoto school in Delaware county when the tradey accurred.
John E. Murphy,22, of 403 Riverside Ave.,Muncie, driver of the machine which struck the girl is being held at Muncie pending completion of an investigation.
He told Delaware county Coroner Sam Drake and State Trooper John Webster that he did not recognize the machine parked in the roadway as a school bus "until after I had hit the little girl."
Girl,8,Is Killed By Motorist--Oneida Mills, Former McKinley Pupil,Is Victim Of Tragedy.
Eight-year-old Oneida Gay Mills, came back to Winchester Tuesday night, her youthful laughter stilled,her young life snuffed out in a tragic accident near Albany a few hours earlier.
Her body lays at the Summers Funeral Home.
Just last week Oneida's parents,Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Mills, had moved with their family to a farm near Albany from their home southwest of Winchester.
She was struck by a car as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home, a quarter mile southeast of Albany on state road 67, and died almost instantly, her neck broken.
Funeral services had not been completed at noon today.
Surviving,other than the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay, a twin,and Vivian;three brothers, Wallace, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
The Mills family,according to J.R. Clark,principal of the McKinley school where Oneida had been a third grade pupil, lived on the Ace Martin farm just south of the county highway barn on the Huntsville road.
Oneida was finishing her first day as pupil at DeSoto school in Delaware county when the tradey accurred.
John E. Murphy,22, of 403 Riverside Ave.,Muncie, driver of the machine which struck the girl is being held at Muncie pending completion of an investigation.
He told Delaware county Coroner Sam Drake and State Trooper John Webster that he did not recognize the machine parked in the roadway as a school bus "until after I had hit the little girl."
Union City Times-Gazette,Wed., Jan. 5,1949
Girl,8,Is Killed By Motorist--Oneida Mills, Former McKinley Pupil,Is Victim Of Tragedy.
Eight-year-old Oneida Gay Mills, came back to Winchester Tuesday night, her youthful laughter stilled,her young life snuffed out in a tragic accident near Albany a few hours earlier.
Her body lays at the Summers Funeral Home.
Just last week Oneida's parents,Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Mills, had moved with their family to a farm near Albany from their home southwest of Winchester.
She was struck by a car as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home, a quarter mile southeast of Albany on state road 67, and died almost instantly, her neck broken.
Funeral services had not been completed at noon today.
Surviving,other than the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay, a twin,and Vivian;three brothers, Wallace, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
The Mills family,according to J.R. Clark,principal of the McKinley school where Oneida had been a third grade pupil, lived on the Ace Martin farm just south of the county highway barn on the Huntsville road.
Oneida was finishing her first day as pupil at DeSoto school in Delaware county when the tradey accurred.
John E. Murphy,22, of 403 Riverside Ave.,Muncie, driver of the machine which struck the girl is being held at Muncie pending completion of an investigation.
He told Delaware county Coroner Sam Drake and State Trooper John Webster that he did not recognize the machine parked in the roadway as a school bus "until after I had hit the little girl."
Girl,8,Is Killed By Motorist--Oneida Mills, Former McKinley Pupil,Is Victim Of Tragedy.
Eight-year-old Oneida Gay Mills, came back to Winchester Tuesday night, her youthful laughter stilled,her young life snuffed out in a tragic accident near Albany a few hours earlier.
Her body lays at the Summers Funeral Home.
Just last week Oneida's parents,Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Mills, had moved with their family to a farm near Albany from their home southwest of Winchester.
She was struck by a car as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home, a quarter mile southeast of Albany on state road 67, and died almost instantly, her neck broken.
Funeral services had not been completed at noon today.
Surviving,other than the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay, a twin,and Vivian;three brothers, Wallace, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
The Mills family,according to J.R. Clark,principal of the McKinley school where Oneida had been a third grade pupil, lived on the Ace Martin farm just south of the county highway barn on the Huntsville road.
Oneida was finishing her first day as pupil at DeSoto school in Delaware county when the tradey accurred.
John E. Murphy,22, of 403 Riverside Ave.,Muncie, driver of the machine which struck the girl is being held at Muncie pending completion of an investigation.
He told Delaware county Coroner Sam Drake and State Trooper John Webster that he did not recognize the machine parked in the roadway as a school bus "until after I had hit the little girl."
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