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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Scouts to remember girls killed in train collision 50 years ago
BEAVERCREEK TWP., Greene County — Girl Scouts will gather at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, to remember eight scouts and two leaders who were killed when a train hit their car 50 years ago.
The scouts will plant flowers and lay wreaths at the Community Park memorial of what is now known as Angels Pass. The Girl Scouts lost two leaders: Jeanette Randall and Lucille White along with eight girl scouts, Connie Laprise, Patricia Lipinski, Cynthia Moorman, Anne North, Paulnetta Randall, Linda Ward, Sharon White and Anna Wilvert. The scouts were killed March 18, 1959 when a train hit the station wagon they were traveling in near Factory Road.
Family and friends of the victims are expected to attend. Read more about the Angels Pass tragedy here.
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