MRS. TOM BRACKEN DIES IN CRASH

FORMER BLAIRITE, 57, KILLED AS CAR OVERTURNS IN IOWA FRIDAY

Mrs. Thomas Bracken, 57, of Emerson, Nebraska, once a Blair resident, was fatally injured Friday when the automobile in which she was riding skidded on wet pavement four miles west of Tama, Iowa, and overturned.

Her husband, 65, suffered a fractured skull, and Mrs. Thomas P. Dripps, 47, of Derry, Pennsylvania, a possible skull fracture and back and neck injuries. Mr. Dripps, 48, was severely bruised. Mrs. Dripps and Bracken were taken to a Marshalltown hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Bracken resided in Blair at 510 west Lincoln street, leaving in 1914. Mr. Bracken then, as now, was employed by the M. & O. railroad.

Mr. Bracken is a brother of Mrs. Mable Sylvis of Blair.

Services were held at Emerson, burial following in Blair cemetery.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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