Mary May
Sept. 2, 1893-Feb. 1953
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, February 18, 1953, page 1, col. 8, microfilm Niles District Library
NILES WOMAN DIES IN GEORGIA CRASH
3 Others from City Injured in Head-on Accident
Mrs. Frank B. May, 59, is victim of highway Mishap at Dalton, Ga.
A Niles woman was killed and three other Nilessites were injured . . .[illegible] . .May, 59, of rural route two.
Injured were Frank May, husband of the victim, and Mr.and Mrs. Barnell Martin, their son-in-law and daughter. All were taken to a hospital in Dalton. The Martins' one-year-old daughter, Sandy Kay, was also in the car but escaped injury.
According to word received here, May suffered fractures of the nose and one leg and Mrs. Martin sustained foot injuries and lacerations. The exact nature of Martin's injuries were not known but it was reported that he was unable to move his legs after the crash.
Relatives here said that the crash occurred when a car travelling in the opposite direction pulled out to pass a line of cars and crashed headon into Martin's car.
The Nilesites were on their way home from a Florida vacation when the mishap occurred.
Complete information in the accident awaits the return of Mrs. May's son-in-law, Russell Shoemaker, 507 Michigan, and a Niles funeral director who went to Dalton to make arrangements to have the body brought here. The patients will be moved to a hospital in this area if it is possible.
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Barbara Miller, Nappanee, Ind., her husband Frank, of Niles; three daughters, Mrs. Russell Shoemaker Sr., Mrs. Roland Gordon and Mrs. Barnell Martin, all of Niles; two sons, George May, Niles, and Wilbur May, Union, Mich., 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; five brothers, Lester Miller, Indianapolis, Atlye and Carl Miller, Nappanee, Ind. Harold Miller, Elkhart, Ind, and Clayton Angemyer, Nappanee, and one sister, Mrs. Ray Thomas, Syracuse, Ind.
Mrs. May was born on Sept. 2 1893, in Ohio, and came here from Nappanee in 1923.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home starting Thursday. Services will be held at the funeral home at 3 p.m. Saturday, and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.