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McKenzies of Early Maryland
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 Abt 1953 - 1970 (~ 17 years)
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| Name |
Gary Lee Blocher |
| Birth |
Abt 1953 |
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Male |
| Death |
19 Aug 1970 |
Morgantown, West Virginia  |
| Notes |
- Gary Lee Blocher, 17, of 17 High Street, Frostburg, died Wednesday in the West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, of injuries sustained in a car accident on Sunday. The youth, who would have been a senior next month at Beall High School, was injured in a one-car accident Sunday along West Virginia Route 28 near Fort Ashby. West Virginia State Police said the youth was driving at a high rate of speed when his vehicle skidded 54 feet from the highway, flew into the air for 24 feet, crashed in a private driveway, bounced another 63 feet while clearing a five-foot fence, then rolled and slid another 43 feet while knocking a limb off a tree eight feet from the ground. Police said the engine of the car then broke loose from the vehicle and knocked the porch off the residence of Arno Brown. The youth was thrown another 45 feet and slammed into a cinder block wall, police said. He was a son of Mrs. Idelma (Heiland) Blocher and the late Granville Blocher who died in 1968. He was a member of Frostburg United Methodist Church and the Order of the DeMolay. Besides.his mother, he is survived by a sister, Lisa Ann, at home. The body is at the Durst Funeral Home, Frostburg, where friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. and tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A service will be conducted tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home by Rev. Richard K. McCullough. Burial will be in Frostburg Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Louis Femi, Gary Warren, Andrew Zimmerman, Randy Grimes, Gordon Opel, Mark McKenzie, David Sagal and John Femi. The Cumberland News, August 21, 1970
He was buried in Frostburg Memorial Park, Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland.
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| Person ID |
I05733 |
McKenzie Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
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