OBIT: Frances Speer Anderson, Jefferson Co., KY

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Transcribed by: Pat45324@aol.com
Date:1 11 July 2001
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Town Grieved By Death Of Young Girl
Local Residents Mourn Tragic Passing of Mrs. Frances Speer Anderson.
Caused By Automobile Accident.

     Again has Jeffersontown been shocked and grieved by a seemingly untimely death--in this instance by 
the death of one of its most beautiful young girls.  Reference is made to the tragic going of Mrs. Frances  
Speer Anderson last Thursday night at the City Hospital shortly after an automobile accident.  
     Mrs. Anderson had accepted a position with the Kaufman-Strauss Co. in its photographic department 
not quite a week previous and had left her place of business at 5:30 Thursday evening in company with 
James Weakley of Fisherville, also an employee of the Kaufman-Strauss Co. and had entered his 
Chevrolet sedan with a girl friend, Miss Elizabeth Bridwell of Jeffersontown, the three being enroute 
home when a Buick car from a cross street, driven by Mrs. Loftus of 501 1/2 Central Avenue crushed into 
them at the intersection of Brook and College, overturning their car; throwing out the three occupants 
and pinning Mrs. Anderson between the car and curbing, the car later bursting into flames.
     Miss Bridwell was the only one of the trio able to help herself, and with the aid of passers by assisted 
in extricating Mrs. Anderson and seeing her and Mr. Weakley sent to the City Hospital, she being brought 
home by a policeman.
     The first information received of the tragedy in Jeffersontown was when a reporter called the 
Jeffersontown exchange to inquire if a "Miss Frances Speer" were known here, evidently having found 
this name on some of Mrs. Anderson's belongings at the hospital.
     Mrs. Lawrence Miller, a friend of Mrs. Anderson happened to be on duty at the exchange and she and 
husband hastened to make inquiry and to apprise Mrs. Anderson's parents of the tragedy.  They rushed 
accordingly to the hospital, reaching there about two hours before the end came at between 10 and 11 
o'clock.
     Mrs. Anderson was the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Speer; an unusually beautiful and 
attractive girl.     Besides her husband, Edwin Anderson and her parents, she is survived by one sister, Mrs. 
Marshall Floore and three brothers, Messrs. Drane, Ross and Leslie Speer all of Jeffersontown.