The Wellington Leader (August 24, 1967)
Accident Fatal to Granddaughter of City Woman
Miss Linda Gail Cook, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cook, 6425 Northport, Dallas, and the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Vaughan of Wellington, was killed Thursday, August 10, when the car in which she was a passenger plunged into a 38-foot deep excavation where Dallas North Tollway now under construction cuts under the 5700 block of Royal Lane.
Kent Biffie, in an article which appeared in The Dallas Morning News, quoted Felix Einsohn, an accountant, as saying he saw no lights or barriers at the excavation and warned police of this an hour and a half before the fatal accident.
An investigation is underway.
A witness to the crash was a neighbor of the Cook family, Calvin A. Barker, who was driving just behind the vehicle in which Miss Cook was riding. He told The Dallas Morning News that the dust that billowed as the car went off the excavation probably saved him from driving into it. He said the car in which the group of teenagers were riding was traveling between 15 and 25 miles per hour.
Miss Cook had been a frequent Wellington visitor throughout her life. Her last visit was in the spring.
Born in Houston, she graduated from the Hockaday School this spring and would have entered the University of Oklahoma in September. This summer she worked in Doctors Medical Center in Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Aug. 12 at Park Cities Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and burial was in Restland Memorial Park.
Attending the funeral were Mrs. W.F. Vaughan , Mr. and Mrs. Orville Vaughan of Dodson, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Bratten, Stanley Bratten and Mrs. Henry Vaughan.
Accident Fatal to Granddaughter of City Woman
Miss Linda Gail Cook, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cook, 6425 Northport, Dallas, and the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Vaughan of Wellington, was killed Thursday, August 10, when the car in which she was a passenger plunged into a 38-foot deep excavation where Dallas North Tollway now under construction cuts under the 5700 block of Royal Lane.
Kent Biffie, in an article which appeared in The Dallas Morning News, quoted Felix Einsohn, an accountant, as saying he saw no lights or barriers at the excavation and warned police of this an hour and a half before the fatal accident.
An investigation is underway.
A witness to the crash was a neighbor of the Cook family, Calvin A. Barker, who was driving just behind the vehicle in which Miss Cook was riding. He told The Dallas Morning News that the dust that billowed as the car went off the excavation probably saved him from driving into it. He said the car in which the group of teenagers were riding was traveling between 15 and 25 miles per hour.
Miss Cook had been a frequent Wellington visitor throughout her life. Her last visit was in the spring.
Born in Houston, she graduated from the Hockaday School this spring and would have entered the University of Oklahoma in September. This summer she worked in Doctors Medical Center in Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Aug. 12 at Park Cities Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and burial was in Restland Memorial Park.
Attending the funeral were Mrs. W.F. Vaughan , Mr. and Mrs. Orville Vaughan of Dodson, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Bratten, Stanley Bratten and Mrs. Henry Vaughan.
The Wellington Leader (August 24, 1967)
Accident Fatal to Granddaughter of City Woman
Miss Linda Gail Cook, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cook, 6425 Northport, Dallas, and the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Vaughan of Wellington, was killed Thursday, August 10, when the car in which she was a passenger plunged into a 38-foot deep excavation where Dallas North Tollway now under construction cuts under the 5700 block of Royal Lane.
Kent Biffie, in an article which appeared in The Dallas Morning News, quoted Felix Einsohn, an accountant, as saying he saw no lights or barriers at the excavation and warned police of this an hour and a half before the fatal accident.
An investigation is underway.
A witness to the crash was a neighbor of the Cook family, Calvin A. Barker, who was driving just behind the vehicle in which Miss Cook was riding. He told The Dallas Morning News that the dust that billowed as the car went off the excavation probably saved him from driving into it. He said the car in which the group of teenagers were riding was traveling between 15 and 25 miles per hour.
Miss Cook had been a frequent Wellington visitor throughout her life. Her last visit was in the spring.
Born in Houston, she graduated from the Hockaday School this spring and would have entered the University of Oklahoma in September. This summer she worked in Doctors Medical Center in Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Aug. 12 at Park Cities Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and burial was in Restland Memorial Park.
Attending the funeral were Mrs. W.F. Vaughan , Mr. and Mrs. Orville Vaughan of Dodson, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Bratten, Stanley Bratten and Mrs. Henry Vaughan.
Accident Fatal to Granddaughter of City Woman
Miss Linda Gail Cook, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cook, 6425 Northport, Dallas, and the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Vaughan of Wellington, was killed Thursday, August 10, when the car in which she was a passenger plunged into a 38-foot deep excavation where Dallas North Tollway now under construction cuts under the 5700 block of Royal Lane.
Kent Biffie, in an article which appeared in The Dallas Morning News, quoted Felix Einsohn, an accountant, as saying he saw no lights or barriers at the excavation and warned police of this an hour and a half before the fatal accident.
An investigation is underway.
A witness to the crash was a neighbor of the Cook family, Calvin A. Barker, who was driving just behind the vehicle in which Miss Cook was riding. He told The Dallas Morning News that the dust that billowed as the car went off the excavation probably saved him from driving into it. He said the car in which the group of teenagers were riding was traveling between 15 and 25 miles per hour.
Miss Cook had been a frequent Wellington visitor throughout her life. Her last visit was in the spring.
Born in Houston, she graduated from the Hockaday School this spring and would have entered the University of Oklahoma in September. This summer she worked in Doctors Medical Center in Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Aug. 12 at Park Cities Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and burial was in Restland Memorial Park.
Attending the funeral were Mrs. W.F. Vaughan , Mr. and Mrs. Orville Vaughan of Dodson, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Bratten, Stanley Bratten and Mrs. Henry Vaughan.
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