Thomas Yontz

Male 1943 - 1962  (18 years)


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  1. 1.  Thomas Yontz was born on 7 Sep 1943 in Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Feb 1962 in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio, USA.

    Notes:

    An account of the accident that took Thomas Yontz’s life appeared in the Newark Advocate on 5 Feb 1962:
    CARS CRASH SHOUTH OF ZANESVILLE;
    FOUR DIE, THREE INJURED
    ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A car heading north carrying four
    Ohio State University students back to school after a weekend
    home . . . A car heading south bringing four Caldwell women
    back to their homes. . .
    The two met headon on Ohio 146 about 15 miles southeast
    of here Sunday night. The result - four deaths and three persons
    hospitalized. One youth escaped uninjured.
    Killed were Thomas Yontz, 18; Miss Louise Clark, 50; her sister,
    Inez, 55, and Mrs. Hattie Wile, all of Caldwell.
    In Bethesda hospital here are Richard Yoss, 18, of Woodsfield,
    driver of the car carrying the youths; Phillip Yontz, twin brother of
    the teen-ager killed and Miss Thelma Rice, 60, of Caldwell.