Obituaries: Janet McGinty, 1948, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 25, 1948 Winn Parish Enterprise

Janet McGinty Killed In Car Wreck At L. S. U.

Funeral Services Held Here Sunday For Former Winnfield Resident

Funeral services for Janet McGinty, 19, junior in the College of Agriculture,
Louisiana State University, were held Sunday afternoon at the First Methodist
Church, Winnfield.  Rev. Fred Flurry, Rev. Alwin Stokes, and Rev. A. C. Lawton
of Baton Rouge conducted the final rites.

Miss McGinty, a native of Winnfield, was fatally injured early Saturday
morning, when the car in which she was riding , driven by Andrew Esco Knight,
Jr., commerce senior, was in collision with a car driven by George Tillery,
Jr., senior in the College of Engineering, near the Sigma Nu Fraternity house
on Dalrymple Drive, L. S. U. campus.  

Witnesses said Knight and Miss McGinty were returning from a Lambda Chi Alpha
dance at the LSU Golf Club when the accident occured.

Knight had stopped by the Lambda Chi house to drop off other members of the
party, and was crossing Dalrymple near the Sigma Nu house when the 1947
Plymouth he was driving was in collision with Tillery's car, proceeding east
on Dalrymple.

Witnesses said Miss McGinty was thrown out of the car by the force of the
impact and was pinned under the wheels.  Students who had rushed to the scene
succeeded in removing the girl from beneath the wreckage, and she was taken to
Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium, where she died at 1:30 a.m.

Knight, who suffered from shock, was a patient at the LSU Infirmary until
yesterday, when he was taken to his home in Bogalusa.

A coroner's jury, empaneled Saturday morning, fixed the cause of death as a
fractured skull.  No charges were filed against Tillery, who was released from
East Baton Rouge Parish jail early Saturday morning, where he had been held
pending the jury's action.

Miss McGinty was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus McGinty of 2025 Guam
Street, Lake Charles, La., former residents of Winnfield.  She attended
McNeese Junior College in Lake Charles before entering LSU last fall.

Besides her parents, she is survived by one brother, Cyrus McGinty III, her
grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Dan Kelly of Oak Grove, and Mrs. C. McGinty, Sr.,
of Shreveport.