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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
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