The Alpena News, May 1967
A Flint woman was killed and another critically injured in the early hours of the Memorial Day weekend when their automobile and a pickup truck collided on Thompson Road at US 23 in Fenton Township. Dead is Lydia C. Herron, 22, of 2406 Humboldt Ave., the driver of the car. Her companion, Kathleen M. Henning, 21, of 4201 Clio Rd., is in critical condition at McLaren General Hospital. State Police said Miss Herron was turning left from a US 23 exit ramp onto Thompson about 1:50 a.m. today when the car was struck by the truck, driven by Edward H. White III, 11105 S. Jennings Rd., Fenton Township. White was not hurt. Before sunrise Saturday, seven others had died in Michigan traffic. The Associated Press tabulation of holiday traffic deaths began at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight Tuesday. [The article continues with a discussion of other accidents inMichigan.]
The Alpena News, May 1967
Services
for Miss Lydia C. Herron, 22, an X-ray technician who was killed early Saturday
in a car-truck collision, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Bannan Funeral Home
in Alpena. Burial will be in Alpena. Miss Herron, 2406 Humboldt Ave., was driving
a cart that turned left from a US 23 exit ramp onto Thompson Rd. and was struck
by a truck driven by Edward H. White III, 11105 S. Jennings Rd., Fenton
Township. He was not injured. Riding with Miss Herron was Kathleen M.
Henning, 21, of 4201 Clio Rd., who is in the intensive care unit of McLaren
General Hospital. She remained in
critical condition Saturday night. Miss
Herron was a 1965 graduate of the Hurley Hospital School of X-ray
Technology. She was a member of the
American Society of Radiologic Technologists and St. Matthew Catholic
Church. She was employed by Drs. Ralph
E. Dawson, J. Murray Day, and Mark C. Levine of Flint, and the Werby
Electroencephalographic Laboratory, Flint.
Surviving are her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Orville Herron, two brothers and
three sisters, all of Lachine.
The Alpena News, May 27, 1967
Flint
– Miss Lydia Herron, 22, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Orville Herron of Spratt,
was fatally injured in a car-truck crash 12 miles south of here at 1:05 a.m.
Saturday. She was dead on arrival at
Flint’s Hurley Hospital. A companion
riding in the car with Miss Herron, Kathleen Henning, 21, of 4201 Clio-rd,
Flint, is reported in serious condition in Flint’s McLaren Hospital.
The
accident occurred on US-23 at Thompson-rd when the Herron car exited from the
southbound expressway onto Thompson-rd and was struck broadside by a westbound
pickup truck driven by Edward White of Flint.
He suffered minor injuries in the crash. White was not held but the accident is still under investigation,
according to Flint State Police.
Miss
Herron, who resided at 2406 Humboldt in Flint, was born Jan. 24, 1945 in
Alpena. She graduated from Alpena High
school in 1963 and from Hurley Hospital School of Radiology in 1965. She had been employed at the Dawson
Neurological Clinic, Flint.
Surviving
besides her parents are three sisters, Margie, Gayle, and Doris; and two
brothers, Nason and Franklin, all at home; her paternal grandparents, Mr. &
Mrs. Frank Herron of Spratt. Miss
Herron’s body is at the Bannan Funeral Home where the funeral services will be
held Tuesday at 2 with the Rev. Howard Schaffer and the Rev. Father John
McGowan officiating. Interment will be
in Evergreen Cemetery.
Buried: May 1967, Evergreen Cemetery, Alpena, MI
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[Quoted from The Herron Family of Alpena County, Ruth Ann Cochrane and Clyde A. Morrison, June 26, 1998, in the Alpena Public Library, R Gen. 929.1 Herr]
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