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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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By Kaycee nee Albritton Emilienburg
September 7, 2009 11:42 AM | Link to this
Fifty years and the memories are as fresh as yesterday. Cindy Moorman was my best friend and this was my Girl Scout troop. I checked this out as I am writing about that event for a memoir class I am taking. My dad was able to take me to the park in Beavercreek years ago and I was moved to be there. If anyone else sees this, know that those girls and their mothers are remembered by others who still carry the pain of their loss. What a wonderful reunion we will have some day and of course I am closer to it today than I was back then. In fact, the only way I could make any sense of that tragedy at eleven was to figure that everyone was so special to God that He needed them to come home sooner than later. I couldn’t begrudge them to God even though I missed them, and especially Cindy, terribly.
By Kathy Wells Marshall
April 16, 2010 6:20 PM | Link to this
Connie was my best friend we lived two houses apart. She was so good and sweet, I miss her so much and to this day think about her often. Even though she is gone I will never forget her smiling face, her beautiful hair, and her wonderful family. I know she was called way to soon, Love you Connie
By LLyn De Danaan (Patterson)
January 14, 2011 9:52 PM | Link to this
I was a senior at Beavercreek High School. I remember the moment I heard the news as if it were yesterday. I was a 4-H Junior Leader and Anne North was my young friend. I am thinking about her a lot today….I missed this memorial but the tragedy in Tucson this past week has brought the loss of Anne back to me.