Mount Carroll woman and three members of a former Carroll County family were killed last Thursday May 18, 1939 in an automobile crash on the Boulder Dam highway 20 miles north of Kingman, Arizona. The victims, Miss Myrtle Weidman, 67, of Mount Carroll; Harry E. Teeter, 50; his wife Vena, 49; their son, John H. Teeter, 20, all of LaGrange, Illinois, died when their car was hit by a truck which was driven onto the highway without regard for a stop sign, a coroner’s jury at Chloride, Arizona, decided.

The party was enroute to California to visit a daughter of the Teeters who had become a mother on April 27. (Alice Horner’s note: The California Birth Index gives this date as April 28, 1939.) The daughter is Mrs. George Foster and resides at Seal Beach, California.

A sister of Harry Teeter, Mrs. Mae Densmore of 120 South Madison Avenue, LaGrange, left immediately for Kingman, which is not far from the Arizona – California boundary line, to make funeral arrangements. Taken to a Kingman hospital after the crash, the truck driver was reputed to be in a critical condition.

Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Teeter and their son were held Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, California, where their daughter lives and burial will be made in that city. The body of Miss Weidman will be returned here for burial at Mount Carroll, and will arrive at Mount Carroll on Friday. Mrs. Mae Densmore is accompanying the body from Kingman, Arizona.

The Teeter family lived at Wacker before moving to LaGrange, where Mr. Teeter was employed in a bank a few years ago. Mr. Teeter was born in the vicinity of Argo-Fa, and spent his youth there. He is survived by a brother, G. C. Teeter of near Milledgeville, and four sisters, Mrs. K. B. Carpenter of Thomson, Mrs. Mae Densmore of LaGrange, Mrs. Ella Orr of Oak Park, and Mrs. Anna Gunn of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Teeter is survived by her father, William Moore of Savanna, a brother, Roy Moore of Mount Carroll, and two sisters, Mrs. Paul Schuyler and Mrs. Ethel Aves of Savanna. Their daughter, Ruth of California, also survives.

Miss Weidman is survived by a brother, Clay Weidman of Mount Carroll. She was an aunt of Mrs. Teeter.

Thomson Review, Thomson, Illinois May 25, 1939