Indiana-Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Beatty, Clifton L. March 13, 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Michael Beatty mwbeatty@hotmail.com February 19, 2005, 3:52 am 3/14/1932 - Indiana Evening Gazette FORMER RESIDENT OF BLAIRSVILLE DIES IN CRASH Clifton L. Beatty, 24, Fatally Injured Early Sunday Morning, When Motorcycle Hit Parked Car A former Blairsville youth employed by a Pittsburgh newspaper was fatally injured in Pittsburgh yesterday morning when a motorcycle collided with a parked automobile. The victim, Clifford L. Beatty, 24, of Pittsburgh, an employee of the "Sun-Telegraph," was riding with Howard Ripple, another employee of the newspaper, who was delivering papers, when the collision occurred. Beatty was in the sidecar of the motorcycle. The motorcycle crashed into a parked car in Second avenue. Beatty suffered a fracture of the skull and internal injuries and was pronounced dead at the Mercy Hospital. Ripple was uninjured. The body was removed to Ferguson Funeral Home in Blairsville. Clifton L. Beatty was born in Conemaugh, March 31, 1908, a son of Christopher B. Beatty and Luella (Humphrey) Beatty. The family later removed to Blairsville, where Mr. Beatty was a well-known employee of the freight department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Blairsville Cemetery. The victim resided with his mother in Pittsburgh. Funeral services will be held in the Ferguson Funeral Home in Blairsville at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in charge of the Rev. Joseph C. Stuart, minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Blairsville. Burial will be in the Blairsville Cemetery. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb