Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Currnet, Ruth V Barger April 12, 1971
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Piqua Daily Call dated 12-Apr-1971
St. Paris Mrs Ruth Current Barger, 39, of 426 E Main, St. Paris, was killed 
instantly near 6:30pm Sunday when her car was struck by a DT&I freight train 
engine at the Eagle Road crossing, northwest of Springfield.
The torn and twisted wreckage of the Barger car was dragged more than half a 
mile by the train before it was halted at Baker Road.  The body of Mrs. Barger 
was thrown out some distance away.  There are no warning lights at the 
crossing only the standard cross arms.  Authorities sad the Barger automobile 
was westbound at a high speed.  The engineer of the 105 car freight said he 
was operating at 45 miles an hour.  Mrs. Barger was alone in the auto.  The 
first of two engines on the train was damaged in the collision but was able to 
proceed.
The victim was born in St. Paris Aug 11,1932, the daughter of Stanley and 
Jessie Current.  She was employed at the Sacke Auto Parks Co., Springfield and 
was a member of the Zion-Lutheran Church here.
Surviving are two children, David and Diane,both at home, her father Stanley 
Current of Urbana;three sisters, Mrs. Louise Cumby of Ft.Worth, Tx, Mrs. Betty 
Payne of London and Mrs Martha Kimbler of Columbus, five half-brothers and 
three half-sisters.
Services will be conducted in Baker Funeral Home at 2pm Wednesday by the Rev. 
Luther Buchholtz.  Burial will be in Spring Grove Cemetery.

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