Janice (Gery) Clark

 

Janice (Gery) Clark
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Indiana
Janice G. Clark, died Apr. 18, 1965

Journal and Courier, Lafayette, April 19, 1965, Vol. 46, No. 93, pg. 1, col. 1-5.

Doctor's Daughter Dies As Train Rams Car

A 22 year old Lafayette woman died Sunday evening from injuries suffered when a fast-moving train struck a sports car at a crossing near West Point.   The victim, Mrs. Janice G. Clark, 22, of 1829 Shoshone Drive, became Tippecanoe County's third traffic fatality of the year.

Her husband, Robert A. Clark, 25, who was driver of the 1964 sports car convertible, was listed in 'serious' condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital Monday with multiple lacerations, a fractured left leg and other injuries.

Mrs. Clark was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Richard, Gery, 306 Park Lane, West Lafayette. Dr. Gery is a prominent local physician and surgeon.

The young couple were married here last January, and he is a student of Purdue University.

State police said the collision occurred at 3:25 p.m. and the Granville Road crossing over the Norfolk and Western Railroad tracks at the north edge of West Point.

The train was traveling from St. Louis to Detroit, and the engineer was J.W. Wilson, 64 of Peru.

Mrs. Clark died in St. Elizabeth Hospital at 6:50 p.m., with her father at her bedside.  She died as the result of multiple fractures, lacerations and internal injuries.

Troopers Ted Dudziaski and George Ross said the Clark car was approaching the crossing from the north when Clark apparently heard the warning whistle of the train and applied the brakes of his car.

The car skidded 31 feet and stopped on the tracks, where it stalled.  Clark tried to back the car off the tracks, but it was caught by the front of the engine and tossed 37 feet into a concrete post.

After striking the post, the car bounced into the side of the side of the train and was thrown several more feet from the tracks.

Police said they also found the body of the Clark's dog a number of feet from the track where it was thrown from the car.

Born in Lafayette, Mrs. Clark was graduated from West Lafayette High School and attended Purdue and Indiana Universities. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and besides her husband and parents is survived by a brother, Mike Gery,  (The remainder of the article was not about Janice Gery Clark and is omitted here.)

Journal and Courier, Lafayette, April 20, 1965, Vol. 46, No. 93, pg. 1, cols. 1-3

FUNERAL NOTICES

CLARK, Mrs. Robert A. — Friends may call at Zahn-Schneider Funeral Home after 4 p. m. Tuesday. Services there at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, the Rev. Dr. Randall A. Corkern officiating; interment in Spring Vale Cemetery. Surviving is a grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Gery of West Lafayette. Family suggests those so desiring may contribute in memoriam to a favorite charity

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