OBIT: Doris Elaine ROSENBERGER, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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DORIS ELAINE ROSENBERGER

Doris Rosenberger Fatally Injured By Automobile

  Doris Elaine Rosenberger, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rosenberger, 
died in Allegany Hospital, Cumberland, five minutes after being admitted at 6:50 
Saturday night.  She was struck by a car just 15 minutes before.
  She had been at the home of a girl friend across the McMullen Highway from her 
own home, and was on her way to a parked car to ride into Cumberland with 
friends to see the Allegany-Somerset football game.  Just as she reached the 
edge of the highway she was hit by an automobile operated by Ralph Allen 
Schlosser, 21, of Cresaptown.  Mrs. Rosenberger was standing on the front porch 
and saw her daughter struck by the car, but could not give any definite details 
to Trooper Barton.
  The right front fender of Schlosser's car struck the girl and her body was 
catapulted against the right edge of the windshield.  Her body was left lying 
along the edge of the highway and a passing motorist, Harold Hollis, a driver 
for the Potomac Edison Bus Company, stopped and took her to the hospital.  
Schlosser stayed at the scene of the accident until Trooper Barton arrived.
  Dr. Benedict Skitarelic, acting deputy county medical examiner, said the girl 
died from a fractured skull and inter-cranial hemorrhages.  She also suffered a 
fractured left ankle and abrasions about the face and body.  Trooper Barton said 
Schlosser was not held, but would be questioned, Monday morning, at the States 
Attorney's office.
  The girl is survived by her parents, a brother, John, her paternal 
grandmother, Mrs. Ella Painter, Mt. Jackson, Va., and her paternal grandparents, 
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Beachy of Grantsville.  Her brother was injured several 
months ago when struck by a car on McMullen Highway and it was reported she was 
hit while riding a bike about two weeks ago.
  Doris was born in Grantsville.
  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in St. Mark's Reformed Church, 
Cumberland, followed by interment in the Grantsville cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, September 25, 1947