C. Eugene Shockey
TWO KILLED IN WAYNESBORO AUTO CRASH – Two young men are dead and a third hospitalized as the result of a grinding two-car collision Thursday night at the junction of N. Grant St. and Orchard Rd. in Waynesboro. Dead on arrival at the Waynesboro Hospital was Craig D. Armour, 20, Mont Alto, one of the drivers in the crash. The Franklin County coroner, Dr. John P. Manges, said the immediate cause of death was a fractured skull. C. Eugene Shockey, 31, Waynesboro, died at 7:05 a.m. Friday at the hospital. He had suffered multiple lacerations and injuries, said aides. He was a brother of Mrs. Fred Sanders of Gettysburg. Shockey was a passenger in an auto driven by Robert Needy, 35, Waynesboro. Needy sustained a fracture of the left leg.
POLICE ON SCENE – Borough police reported that Needy, driving a 1962 convertible, was going north on N. Grant St. at a high rate of speed. Armour was stopped at a sign on Orchard Rd. at the intersection with Grant St. Needy’s car apparently went out of control at the intersection, where the street curves north, rammed Armour broadside, spun around three times on Grant St., hit a traffic sign and collided with a tree on the lawn of the National Guard Armory. Waynesboro police said that minutes before the crash a patrol car had begun following the Needy car but had given up pursuit when it lost contact with the car ahead. The police came upon the crash scene a few minutes after the collision. Armour, who was serving in the Air Force at Stewart AFB, Newburgh, N.Y., was home on leave when he was killed. He had been a basketball star at Waynesboro High School in his student days. His services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Mont Alto Methodist Church.
RAN BODY SHOP – C. Eugene Shockey was born in Waynesboro, a son of the late Ross R. and Mary A. (Vinson) Shockey. In September 1951, Shockey was married to the former Miss Dorothy J. Carr. He was a member of the Blue Mountain Church of God. In addition to his widow, he is survived by three children, David, Michael and Brenda, all at home; four brothers, Robert R. Shockey, Garnet L. Shockey and Paul D. Shockey, all of Waynesboro, and Vincent 0. Shockey, Fayetteville; and four half sisters, Mrs. Virginia Spoonhour, Fayetteville; Mrs. Fred Sanders, Gettysburg: Mrs. Barr Stoops, Chambersburg R. D. and Mrs. Robert Snurr, Waynesboro. The funeral will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Grove Funeral Home in charge of the Rev. C. W. McGaha. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. Waynesboro. Friends may call at the funeral time o7 until 9 p.m. Sunday.
The Gettysburg Times Newspaper – Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania – Saturday, July 15, 1967
