| Graduation Year | Class of 1954 |
| Date of Birth | Dec 28, 1937 |
| Date of Passing | Nov 25, 1955 |
| About | Services for Miss Sara Elizabeth Russell, 18, of Pinkerton Lane, who died Friday afternoon in Mercy Hospital at Canton of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Nov. 23 near Carrollton will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Forest Avenue chapel of Mader-Peoples Funeral Home. Rev. W. P. Moore of the South Zanesville Church of the Nazarene will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn. The body will remain at the funeral home. Miss Russell was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russell. Killed in the accident were her grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Gale, of Jacksontown, formerly of South Zanesville, and Allen Kohler,44, of Kilgore, Ohio. Rev. Gale and Kohler were drivers of the two cars which collided head-on at the crest of a hill on a two-lane highway. Miss Russell's mother, a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Gale, is listed in fair condition in the Canton hospital where she is being treated for a hip injury. One of her sisters, Miss Judy Ann, 16, is still unconscious and in critical condition in the same hospital, being for a severe skull fracture, broken leg and loss of an eye. Another sister, Martha, who was 11 yesterday, also injured in the accident, is listed in good condition. Miss Russell was born in Springfield, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1937, but spent most of her life in this vicinity. She graduated from Zanesville High School in the class of 1954 and was secretary at the Muskingum County Agriculture extension office in the courthouse. She was a member of the South Zanesville Church of the Nazarene which was founded by her grandfather. She is survived by her parents and two sisters and her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Russell, of Rt. 2. |
