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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., March 15, 1935, page 1

LYLE WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
White Salmon people in Car Injured
Accident Occurred near Sprague Sunday

Mrs. Georgie T. Crane, wife of Walter Crane, of Lyle was killed in an automobile accident at Sprague, Wash., Sunday, caused by a tire blow-out. Mrs. Ruth Wiley, of White Salmon, driving the Crane car, suffered a broken hip and was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. Her brother-in-law, H.M. Howland, and his son were not injured. Mrs. Wiley's brother and his wife left Wednesday for Spokane to be with her.
They were driving back from Medical Lake when the accident occurred.
Mrs. Crane is survived by her husband of Lyle, and a son Ernest Crane of Shelton, Wash.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 14, 1935, page 5

LYLE WOMAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT

LYLE -- The community was shocked to hear of the death of Mrs. Walter Crane in an auto accident near Sprague, Wash., last Sunday about 11:00 A.M. A rear tire blew out causing the car to turn over a couple of times before leaving the highway. The top was torn from the car, throwing the occupants out on the highway. Mrs. Wiley, of Seattle, was at the wheel at the time of the accident. She received a broken leg and back. Mr. Howland and his seven year old son, the other occupants of the car escaped with minor bruises and shock. The entire community extend their deepest sympathy to the bereaved family in their sorrow.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 14, 1935, page 1

KILLED IN ACCIDENT

Mrs. Walter V. Crane, 65, wife of Walter V. Crane, a lineman of the S.P. & S. Railroad at Lyle, was killed near Sprague, Wash. Sunday, when a car in which she was riding left the highway and plunged into a ditch as a result of a tire blowout. Mrs. R.E. Wiley, of Seattle, driver of the car, was critically injured.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 21, 1935, page 6

MRS. WALTER V. CRANE

Burial services were held Thursday, March 14th, at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Walter V. Crane, who was killed in an automobile accident at Sprague, Wash., on Sunday, March 10th.
Georgia Richardson Crane was born at Chucky, Tennessee, Aug. 27, 1875, moving with her parents to Hoehne, Colo., when 18 years of age. She was the youngest of four sisters and two brothers. A sister at Kimberly, Idaho, a sister at Modesto, Calif., one brother in Colorado, are still living.
She was married to Walter Crane Dec. 25th, 1896, moving to Portland in 1898. In March 1902, they settled on a homestead near Lyle, and in September, 1911, they moved to Lyle, where they built and operated the telephone exchange for eighteen years.
There were four children, Mary Anna, who passed on in 1924; Walter Everett, killed in an automobile accident in 1924; Albert J., who was electrocuted in 1930 at Sunnyside, Wash. One son, Jacob Ernest and the husband of survived.
Mrs. Crane was a church worker all her life, taking up Christian Science in 1900, and was a member of the Mother Church the past twenty years.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 21, 1935, page 5

CAR WRECK TAKES LIFE OF MRS. CRANE, OF LYLE

While mention was made in last week's issue of The Sentinel of the accident in which Mrs. W. V. Crane, of Lyle, was fatally injured, the details were so meager at the time we will acquaint our readers of more of the facts. Mr. Crane was in Goldendale last Saturday and furnished us this information.
Mrs. W.V. Crane, of Lyle, H.M. Howland and son Harold, of Klickitat, and Mrs. Ruth Wiley, of Seattle, a sister-in-law of Mr. Howland, left Lyle on Friday morning, March 6th, bound for Spokane. They were on their way home, and about two miles east of Sprague, when the accident occurred. Mr. Howland and Mrs. Wiley had been spelling each other at the wheel of the car, and at the time the Mrs. Wiley was driving. They had been traveling along at a good rate of speed, but at the particular place the road was rough, as was remembered by Mr. Howland, who called Mrs. Wiley's attention to this rough stretch.
She reduced the speed of the car to about forty miles per hour, Mr. Howland noting this in the speedometer. When the car struck the rough road, a tire gave out and the car became unmanageable, finally turning over and down a three foot embankment, landing on its wheels. The occupants were thrown through the roof of the car, which was torn out in turning over. They were flung about thirty feet from the car.
Harold suffered the least injuries and attempted to arouse Mr. Howland, also trying to help the others. The boy is about eight years of age. The first car to come along was driven by Dr. Tiller, a dentist. He rendered what first aid he could and was shortly joined by a car containing a barber and a graduate nurse. The third car contained two federal officers of Tennessee, who were traveling through the country. They took charge and remained on the job until the patients had been moved to the hospital at Sprague.
Mrs. Crane suffered a fractured skull, never regaining consciousness. Mrs. Wiley had her right leg broken near the hip, as well as a fractured vertebrae. She was unconscious for thirty-six hours. Holland was bruised about the face suffered from shock. His son was the least injured, having but few bruises.
The windows were all up in the car, and the doors closed. The occupants were thrown through the top as the car presumably turned over a second time. The car was owned by Mr. Crane, and was a 1934 Plymouth. The damage was fully covered by insurance. It was believed the car would not be worth repairing.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., April 5, 1935, page 4

MRS. GEORGIA CRANE
March 14th, 1935

A host of friends from every direction gathered at her home for a last farewell to her who was everybody's friend. Her loving kindness radiated wherever she went. If the floral offering indicate the number of her friends, then they are without number. Banked high on the rostrum, on the floor and each side of her casket in the gymnasium of the Lyle schools, a blaze of beautiful bloom, but the sweet face in the casket was most beautiful of all. She was sleeping; no trace of suffering or pain, it was hard to think she was dead, for peace and happiness were imaged in her repose. A vision of eternity recorded in that smile as the gates opened for her.
"Star of the East" and other favorite songs were sung. A Christian Science reading, and Eastern Star burial service, then the benediction came out of the sky, a wonderful double rainbow confirming again in that gentle presence the eternal promise, Gen. 9:13 "I do set by bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth, and it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between GOD and every living creature that is upon the earth."
She is gone from us, her home that she filled so full of life, her flowers and her little birds, the church which she so faithfully attended, can know her no more, only in the fragrance of cherished memory as in one of the favorite songs she used to sing.
Still, still with thee when purple morning breaketh,
When the tired waketh, and the shadows flee,
Fairer that the morning, lovlier than daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, still I am with thee.

The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., March 15, 1935, page 5

MRS. CRANE, OF LYLE, KILLED IN CAR WRECK

Mrs. Walter Crane, wife of Walter Crane, Spokane, Portland & Seattle lineman, living at Lyle, Washington, was killed in an automobile accident at Sprague, Sunday. Mrs. Crane is an acquaintance of many people here, her three sons having graduated from the Stevenson high school.
A Mrs. Wiley, of White Salmon, was critically injured in the wreck which was caused by the blowout of a tire.

The Klickitat County News, Goldendale, WA., March 14, 1935, page 12

DEATH RESULT OF ACCIDENT
Mrs. Walter CRane of Lyle Is Killed at Sprague; 4th Tragic Death in Family

LYLE - (Special to The News) - That community is greatly shocked over the death of Mrs. Walter Crane, who was killed in an automobile accident Sunday at Sprague, Washington.
Hal Howland and son of Klickitat, Mrs. Wiley of Seattle and Mrs. Crane had been to Spokane and were enroute home in the Crane car when a tire blew out, causing the tragedy. Mrs. Wiley was seriously injured. Mr. Crane and Ernest left immediately for Sprague, upon the arrival of Ernest from Shelton.
Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at Lyle at 2 p.m.
Georgia Richardson Crane was born in Tennessee, August 27, 1875, and has been a resident of Lyle the past 35 years. Mrs. Crane formerly owned and operated the telephone system for 18 years. She was a member of the Womans Club and Order of Eastern Star, always public spirited and charitable. Her death was the fourth tragedy of the Crane family. The daughter, Mary, was ill but a few days before passing in May, 1924. The following August the youngest son, Everett, was killed in an automobile accident on the Lyle hill. Two years later, Albert, an electrician, was electrocuted at Sunnyside, leaving just Mr. Crane and son, Ernest, surviving.