Chester-Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Obituaries - Eugene Alexander BAKER, 1950 Contributed to PAGenWeb Archives by Nancy Annie Odegard - Nurse73NAO@aol.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ BAKER, Eugene Alexander; 1950 MEDIA YOUTH KILLED IN CRASH AT SEASHORE EUGENE BAKER VICTIM OF ACCIDENT NEAR ATLANTIC CITY June 5, 1950 A 22-year-old Media man recently discharged from the ARMY was killed and eight others were injured in an automobile collision just outside Atlantic City on Sunday. Five persons suffered injuries in highway mishaps in Delaware County over the weekend. Fatally injured in the New Jersey crash was EUGENE ALEXANDER BAKER, 33 E. Front st., who was discharged from the ARMY early this year after serving more than three years in Italy. BAKER, who was scheduled to start work today with ARTERS' Bros., Media contractors, was a passenger in a car being driven by FREDERICK DAVENPORT, 24, of Baltimore pk., Media, which collided with another car on Albany av. near the shore resort. New Jersey State Police reported that DAVENPORT apparently lost control on a curve and crashed into a car coming in the opposite direction driven by AUGUSTO PINTO, 52, Turn to Page 2, Number 8 (incomplete newspaper clipping) Associated image at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/obits/baker-ea.jpg Source: Media - Upper Providence Library 1 East Front Street, Media, Pennsylvania 19063 Delaware County Telephone 610 - 566 - 1918 Media Borough Obituaries