OBIT: Ray Spangler LOWRY, 1932, Shanksville, Somerset County, PA

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RAY SPANGLER LOWRY

Shanksville Lad Coasting Victim
Seven-Year-Old Boy Killed When His Sled Collided With an Automobile

  Ray Spangler Lowry, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lowry, of 
Shanksville, was fatally injured last Saturday evening when his sled crashed 
into an automobile, operated by T. G. Will, of Roxbury, a teacher in the 
Stonycreek Township Consolidated School.
  The boy suffered a puncture wound of the lung, injuries to the head and 
lacerations and was pronounced dead when examined a short time after the 
accident by Dr. W. P. Shaw, of Berlin.
  In company with his brother, Telford, and another boy, he had been coasting 
down a slide about 100 yards long, which ended on Main Street.
  With his brother as a passenger the boy had made a number of trips.  On the 
fatal ride, however, Telford Lowry was left at the top of the slide.
  According to witnesses Mr. Will was unaware of the coasters and had little 
opportunity to bring his car to a stop in time to avoid the accident.  The Lowry 
boys' sled crashed into the front wheel of the car.  Mr. Will removed the 
injured lad to his home and summoned a physician, but the boy was dead when 
examination was made.
  The lad is survived by his parents and these brothers and sisters:  Roland 
Lowry, a student at the Bliss Electric School, Washington, D.C.; Miss Ethel 
Lowry, a student nurse in the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, and Frank, 
Catherine, Carl, Telford, Donald and Kenneth, all in the parental home.
  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at the Lowry home, in charge 
of Rev. J. E. Ainsworth, pastor of the Shanksville Lutheran Church.  Interment 
in the Walker Cemetery, in charge of Undertaker C. H. Ross.  The pallbearers 
were Harry Wilson, Jack Felix, Ernest Hillegas, Paul Miller, Richard Custer and 
John Walker.
  A coroner's jury exonerated Prof. Will of blame for the boy's death, the 
accident having been unavoidable on his part.

Meyersdale Republican, March 17, 1932