Lancaster High School Class of 1960  / Moore, Jeff
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Jeff Moore
 
March 1958
 

Funeral Services will be held Friday for Jeffery Lynn Moore, 15, of 333 Eagle Ave., who died in University Hospital, Columbus, early yesterday, after being struck by a car Monday on U. S. Rt. 22, West of Amanda.
Surviving are his father, Edgar J. Moore, Lancaster; his mother, Mrs. Marie Grimm, Lancaster; three brothers, Russell an Paul Moore, both of Lancaster; M-Sgt. Neil Moore, Lockbourne Air Force Base; six sisters, Mrs. Ellen Freeman, Mrs. Martha Seifert, and Miss Davida Moore, all of Lancaster; Mrs. Paul Kossler, Dayton; and Mrs. Paul Kaas, Lakeland, Fla.
Friends may call at the Sheridan Funeral Home after 6 p. m. today. The Rev. Sydney Waddington will conduct funeral sevices Friday at 10:30 a. m. in St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Burial will be made in Forest Rose Cemetery.

Accident Occurs West of Amanda

A 15-year old Lancaster High School Sophomore accidentally ran into the path of an automobile on U.S. Rt. 22 late yesterday afternoon, state highway patrolmen reported.
The youth, Jeffery Moore, of 333 Eagle Ave., reported officers, died today at 7:20 a.m. in University Hospital, Columbus.
Highway patrolmen who are still investigating the accident, reported that the driver of the car, Mahlen Graybill, 35 of Mashbern, Pa., was not held.
The accident occurred 3.9 miles west of Amanda on the federal highway, at about 5:15 p.m. yesterday.
Officers reported that the youth had alighted from a westbound auto in which he was hitchhiking to visit friends and ran in front of the car, towards the Justice Store, when he was struck by the westbound Graybill vehicle.
A Patterson ambulance from Leesburg, O., happened to be passing the scene and immediately took young Moore to Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital.
From the hospital, Moore was transferred to University Hospital by Sheridan ambulance.
The youth underwent brain surgery last night, but died this morning.
He was the son of Edgar J. Moore, 217 ½ S. Broad St., supervisor of city school bus transportaion and a former deputy sheriff and the son also of Mrs. W. C. Grimm, Camp Ground Rd.
Jeffery Moore became Fairfield Counties 10th traffic victim of the year.

Jeffery Moore, 15, hit and fatally injured by auto on U. S. Rt. 22 west of Lancaster.
Originally Published in Lancaster Eagle Gazette  1958

Moore, Jeff