OBIT: Sidney Carlton BONSELL, 1964, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Sidney Carlton Bonsell
 
  Tyrone's first pedestrian fatality in five years occurred
Sunday, February 2, 1964, when Sidney Carlton Bonsell, 70, of 1068 
Blair Avenue, Tyrone, died in the Tyrone Hospital at 9:30 p.m. of 
injuries received at 7:15 p.m. on the bridge at Blair Avenue and Tenth 
Street in Tyrone.  Borough police said Bonsell stepped into the path of 
a car operated east on Tenth Street at a slow rate of speed by Miss 
Melissa Steele 24, of Mechanicsburg, and didn't see him until she 
struck him with the left front bumper.  Taken to Tyrone Hospital in the 
ambulance of the Blazing Arrow Hook and Ladder Company, Bonsell was 
treated for laceration of the scalp, head injuries, and fractures of 
the left forearm and right leg at the time of his death.  Bonsell, 
walking on the bridge across Bald Eagle Creek, was dressed in dark 
clothing.  Police measured seven feet of skid marks on the bridge.  
Blair County Coroner D. Harold Troxell said death was "accidental."  
Sidney C. Bonsell was born at Spruce Creek on January 12, 1894, a son 
of Leonard and Margaret (Love) Bonsell.  On November 16, 1917, in 
Hollidaysburg, Pa., he married Elsie Irvin.  Surviving are his wife and 
three brothers: Chester, Arthur and Robert, all of Tyrone.  He was a 
Veteran of World War I service in the Army, a member of the American 
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Tyrone, and retired as a painter.

Daily News, Huntingdon, Pa., February 2, 1964, page 2