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- Attica NY News - 11/7/1940
Mrs. Laura G. Banks. 48, of Auburn,
was killed late Saturday af-
ternoon and three others were in-
jured in a two-car crash on the
Buffalo road near Canandaigua.
The injured are: Mrs. Pearl A.
Reynolds, 55, Attica, driver of the
car, her sister, Mrs. Josephine E.
Pickard, 57, of Auburn. Mrs. Rey-
nolds suffered a fractured leg and
scalp wound and Mrs. Pickard
has a fractured nose and bruises
Slightly injured was Mrs. Dorothy
Williams, 32, Poughkeepsie, driver,
of the other car.
Mrs. Williams had been visiting
in Buffalo and was driving to New
York. The Reynolds car, proceed-
ing west, started to pass a .truck
on the three-lane highway when
the Williams car either skidded on
the wet pavement or got out of
control and a head-on collision re-
sulted between the two cars. Cor-
oner Leon A. Stetson of Canandaigua
is investigating.
ALSO
Auburn NY Citizen Advertiser
Funeral services will be held
at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
at the Langham Funeral Home,
91 East Genesee Street, for Mrs.
Laura G. Banks, 51, of 386 Owasco
Road, who was killed in an
automobile accident late Saturday
afternoon four miles west of Canandalgua
on the Buffalo Road.
Burial will be In Soule Cemetery.
Rev. Dr. Ralph A. Philbrook will
officiate. The body of Mrs. Banks
is at the Langham Funeral Home.
Mrs. Banks, with two of her
Maters, Mrs. Pearl A. Reynolds,
55, of Attica; and Mrs. Josephine
Pickard. 57, of Owasco Road had
left Auburn on a vacation trip
and had reached the vicinity of
Canandagua when the accident
happened. Mrs. Banks, for 20
years a telephone operator at the
office of the American Locomotive
Company in this city and
popular among her associates, was
the widow of Luther Banks. She
was an aunt of Police Chief Chester
J. Bills
Deputy Sheriff Harold Bacon
of Ontario County and State
Trooper N. G. Dean, who investigated
the accident, were told
that Mrs. Reynolds was driving
the car. The officers learned that,
while the Auburn women were
endeavoring- to pass a truck, the
car driven by Mrs. Reynolds collided
with one. operated by Mrs.
Dorothy E. Williams. 32, of
Poughkeepsie.
Mrs. Banks died soon after the
accident, apparently as the result
of a fractured skull. Mrs. Reynolds
sustained a scalp wound
and a fracture of the left ankle.
Mrs. Pickard suffered shock and
body bruises. Mrs. Williams also
suffered shock and body bruises.
They were taken to Thompson Memorial
Hospital, Canandalgua,
where they were reported as
"more comfortable" today.
Besides Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs.
Pickard, Mrs. Banks Is survived
by three other sisters. Mrs.
Elizabeth A. White and Mrs.
Susie Hedges of Owasco Road and
Miss Grace M. Bills of Auburn.
Also by a brother, Claude J.
Bills of Auburn; and a granddaughter,
Ann Elizabeth Guse of
this city.
Ontario County officials were
making a further investigation today
into the cause of the fatal
accident.
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