Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Gibsonville Toddler Drowns Behind Home, 1939

“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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