OBIT: Ruth Ellen BROCHT, 1977, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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  BROCHT
  
  Miss Ruth Ellen Brocht, 17, of Meyersdale was DOA Aug. 20th, at the
  Meyersdale Community Hospital.  Born Oct. 1, 1959 in Meyersdale, she
  was a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Schrock) Brocht.  She was a
  sister of Thomas M. Brocht, II of Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Alice Jane
  Shope of Fairfax, Va.; Mrs. Ida Frances Streng of Somerset; Mrs.
  Julia Marie Bittner and Mrs. Mary Susan Shumaker of Meyersdale; Miss
  Sarah Louise Brocht and Miss Amy Lynn Brocht, both at home.  She was
  a senior at the Meyersdale Area High School.  Friends will be
  received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday at the Price Funeral Home in
  Meyersdale where services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the
  Rev. W. Phennicie officiating.  Interment will be at the Highland
  Cemetery in Garrett.
  
  Daily American, August 22, 1977
  
    A Meyersdale area woman was fatally injured and her two sisters
  hospitalized in a one-car accident Saturday afternoon on LR55031
  (Garrett Cutoff Road), three miles north of Garrett in Brothersvalley
  Township.
    Ruth Ellen Brocht, 17, of Meyersdale RD 4, was pronounced dead at
  4:55 p.m. at Meyersdale Community Hospital by Wilbur D. Miller,
  Somerset county coroner.  Miller listed cause of death at crushed
  neck and skull injuries.
    Miss Brocht was a passenger in an auto driven by her sister, Sarah
  L. Brocht, 23, of 223 Pine St., Meyersdale.  Another sister, Mrs.
  Julie M. Bittner, 25, of 226 Meyers Ave., Meyersdale, was also a
  passenger.
    The elder Brocht was driving south on Garrett Cutoff Road about
  4:15 p.m., when she negotiated a right-hand turn and came upon three
  children pushing their bikes north in the southbound lane, according
  to state police.
    Police said she swerved into the opposite lane to miss the
  cyclists, swerved back into the southbound lane to miss a truck
  traveling in the opposite direction, went out of control, down an
  embankment and smashed into a large boulder.
  
  Daily American, August 26, 1977
  
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