“Little Girl Loses her Life in Back of the Home” from the August 8,
1939, issue of the Burlington Daily Times-News
Betty Janet Gerringer
Wandered from Mother; Quickly Found But Efforts To Revive Failed
Betty Janet Gerringer, 1 ½ year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd M. Gerringer of Gibsonville was drowned yesterday in a small creek back of
the Gerringer home when she wandered away from her mother for a few minutes, it
was learned today.
Though found in the creek a few minutes after she was
missed, all effort to revive her proved futile.
Funeral services were slated to have been held at the home
at 4 o’clock this afternoon by Rev. C.E. Anderson. Interment followed in the
Gibsonville city cemetery.
Surviving in addition the parents are two brothers, Bobby
Lee and Buddy Charles Gerringer of the home; four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
N.L. Gerringer of Gibsonville and Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Williams of Elon College,
Route 1.
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