© Carnegie
Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 9, 1960
Rollie Eugene Farrow
Frances Maude [White] Farrow
4 Are Killed In Fort Cobb Crash
Four persons were killed and two others were critically injured in a two-car collision a mile north of Fort Cobb on Highway 9 late last Friday afternoon.
Critically injured in the collision were Rondia Goodner, two-year-old daughter of one of the women wreck victims, and the girl's father, Harold Loyd Goodner, 25, Altus AF Base.
Killed in the accident were Rollie Eugene Farrow, 63-year-old Fort Cobb farmer, his wife, Mrs. Frances Farrow, 57; Mrs. Dora Linda Goodner, 20, of Altus and her 8-month-old son, Harold Wayne Goodner.
Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Farrow were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Fort Cobb Baptist church. Burial was at the Oak Grove cemetery, near Fort Cobb.
The Goodner child that survived the wreck remains in a critical condition in an Oklahoma City hospital, where she underwent surgery Saturday for head injuries, and the baby's father was reported "improved at Tinker Field hospital,
Oklahoma City.
Filmore Edgemon, Anadarko highway patrolman, investigated the accident, which occurred about 6:15 p.m. at a point where Highway 9 curves west a mile north of Fort Cobb. The accident occurred as the car occupied by the Farrows neared the west end of the curve. The Goodner car, driven by the husband and father of the two children, was traveling east. The two cars hit head-on knocking the Farrow car back 43 feet in a southeasterly direction from the point of collision, and the Goodner car bounced 26 feet from the point of contact. Both cars came to a halt facing opposite their original direction of travel.
The patrolman reported that he was informed the Goodner family which had been stationed at the Altus AFB for several months, was enroute to Anadarko to attend the Altus-Anadarko football game Friday night.
The Farrows are survived by his mother, Mrs. Alice Farrow of Binger, four sons, Russell, Leroy and Larry of Fort Cobb, and Fred of Fort Sill; five daughters, Mrs. Marie Sommer, Peoria, Ill., Mrs. Mary Alice Kimbro, Fort Worth, Mrs. Joyce Owens, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Dorothy McAfee, Dakota City, Nebr., and Mrs. Wanda Callaway, Fort Worth. He is survived by three brothers, Arthur and Andy of Binger, and Marvin L. Farrow, Garland, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Anderson of Binger.
Mrs. Farrow is survived by a half-brother, Burch Clark of Concordia, Kan., and one sister, Mrs. Grace Rodio, also of Concordia.
Farrow was born March 23, 1898, at Amboy, Ill., and Mrs. Farrow, whose maiden name was Frances Maude White, was born July 18, 1903, in Concordia. They were married in September, 1919 at Clay Center, Kan. |
