Beckham County, OK - Obits: Leva Keahey, 1925
25 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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KEAHEY, LEVA
(24 Dec 1925, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Sunday afternoon between sundown and dark Leva Keahey, Inez and Alice
and Mildred Young were driving a Ford roadster, with Inez Young at the
wheel.  They had driven one mile south and about a half mile east of
Crawford when the car turned turtle pinning all four of the girls under
the car, the door settling down on Leva Keahey's throat and chest, the
other three girls succeeded in liberating themselves with a nail file just
about the time Albert and Manda Rorabaugh and Marshall Young arrived at
the scene and lifted the car off the Keahey girl.  She was immediately
taken to Crawford where a doctor was summoned, who pronounced her dead. 
It was thought that some signs of life were evidenced upon their arrival
at Crawford, but it was probably only the relaxing of the muscles.
Miss Keahey was the 15 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keahey 
near Crawford.  The Young girls are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Young of Crawford.
It is thought that the cause of the car was hard to drive and the girls
were cautioned before starting on the drive.
The remains were laid to rest in the Bellview cemetery after funeral
services conducted by Rev. W. C. Hardin, a former resident of Crawford. -
Cheyenne Star.

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