PRR Worker Dies Of Fractured Scull In Yard Accident
William V. Eckerd, 25, Elizabethville, employed as a switchman by the Pennsylvania Railroad, died in the Harrisburg Hospital Sunday evening 26 hours after he was found by a fellow worker in the yards at Maclay Street, Dr. S. J. Roberts, Dauphin County Coroner reported.
Dr. Roberts said Eckerd died of a fractured scull. He said the man had a slight cut on his head and he believes that Eckerd may have been struck by a moving car.
No one witnessed the accident and Eckerd never regained consciousness.
In addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Eckerd, Fisherville, near Halifax, he is survived by his wife Mrs. Ruth Anna Eckerd, two daughters, Juanieta Eckerd, age 5, and Javonne Eckerd, aged 1, and one sister, Mrs. C. D. Strausser, Enola.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m., from the Musselman Funeral Home, Lemoyne, with the Rev. Ludwig C. Martensen pastor of the Fetterhoff Lutheran Church, Fisherville, officiating.
Burial will be held at the stone church on the Wertzville Road near Enola. Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home Wednesday evening after 7 o’clock.
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News clipping from Harrisburg Telegraph, 1 April 1945, via Newspapers.com.
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