CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF FRANCIS T. MCCOY

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FRANCIS M'COY KILLED IN CRASH
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Hartington Farmer Second Victim in County Within Four Days
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VERDEL TRUCKER INVOLVED FRIDAY
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	Francis McCoy, 29-year-old Hartington farmer, was instantly 
killed in an auto-truck collision at 12:20 a.m. Friday [September 20, 
1939], six and a half miles northeast of Laurel.  McCoy was the second 
Cedar county resident to die within four days in two wrecks within a 
17-mile stretch.  On the previous Monday night Mrs. Charles Goodman, 
44-year-old Randolph resident, was killed one mile east of Randolph.
	McCoy's car sideswiped a Boyd county truck, driven by Bert 
Prockos of Verdel.  Prockos escaped injury.  Wreckage of McCoy's car was 
scattered 200 yards along the hiway.  The Hartington man's head was 
crushed and his abdomen severely gashed.
	Also uninjured was Joe Martin, 16-year-old youth of Butte, who 
was riding with Prockos.  Fifty hogs in the truck were scattered about 
the road, but none were killed.  The truck was damaged to the extent of 
$300.
	Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Irene Asbra of Hartington 
and his daughter, Phyllis, five-years-old.
	Francis T. McCoy was born October 29, 1910, at Dixon, the son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank McCoy.  He was married June 5, 1933, to Miss Irene Asbra, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Asbra of Hartington.  The couple was married at
Sacred Heart church in Wynot.  His parents, with his wife and daughter, survive.  
He also leaves two sisters, Margaret and Anna Mae, five brothers, John, Mark, 
William, Joe and Ray, all of Hartington.
	He was graduated from the eight grade at Lone Valley school near Obert 
and later attended Hartington High school.  Later he farmed ten miles southeast 
of Hartington.
	Although Mr. McCoy was a member of the East Bow parish, funeral services 
were conducted Saturday morning at Holy Trinity church in Hartington with the 
Reifert funeral home in charge of arrangements.  The Rev. Marcel Kelliher, pastor 
of St. Mary's Catholic church in Laurel, conducted services.
	Burial was made at St. Michaels's cemetery.  Pallbearers were...  [obit cut off]



SEPTEMBER 1939  CEDAR COUNTY NEWS