Henry Wilson Glass ^{1 2 3}

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Cause of Death: Injury, 1 May 1953 5:15 PM - auto struck bicycle, cerebral hemorhage, fractured skull, 1 May 1953, Adamstown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. ²

2. Residence: 253 Main St. East, Adamstown, PA on 1 May 1953 in Adamstown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. ²

3. Obituary: Intelligencer Journal on 2 May 1953 in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. ¹ GRANDMOTHER DIES; MISHAP AT HER DOOR
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Mrs. Harry Bucher Believed Witness To Bicycle Death Of Henry Glass, 7
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A seven-year-old Adamstown boy was killed instantly last night in a bicycle-automobile accident in front of his grandparents' home.
His grandmother, believed to have seen the accident from her window, died a few minutes later of a heart attack.
(photo of HENRY GLASS)
Victims of the double tragedy, Adamstown Chief of Police Eugene W. Belzer said, were Henry Wilson Glass, seven, son of Wilbur L. and Rebecca Bucher Glass, 253 E. Main St., Adamstown, and Mrs. Elizabeth Yeakel Bucher, fifty-nine, wife of Harry B. Bucher, 217 E. Main St., Adamstown.
KILLED INSTANTLY
The boy was killed Instantly about 6:15 p.m. when his bicycle was struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Pierce Lesher Jr., Jefferson Road, Adamstown. His body thrown in front of the Bucher home.
Mrs. Bucher rushed to the scene, Chief Belzer said, to find the grandson dead. She became hysterical and ran back into her home where she collapsed and died.
Double funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a. m, from the Kindt Memorial Home, Shillington. To further burden the grief-stricken family was the fact that Mr. Glass was in Philadelphia at the time the accident occurred, visiting a brother, Lowell Glass, who yesterday underwent a delicate heart operation.
Chief Belzer said the Glass boy was riding his bicycle south on the Bowmansville road intersection of Main Street in the borough, descending a rather steep incline.
Apparently, he said, the boy didn't brake the bicycle in time or else the brakes failed to hold. The bicycle loomed in the path of Mrs. Lesher's westbound vehicle, police said, and before she could avoid the accident, the auto struck the boy.
He was thrown nearly directly in front of his grandparents home, police said, and was pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. Russell Derr who had been summoned. Dr. Derr was also summoned to treat Mrs. Bucher, but found her dead also.
Dr. M. W. Levenson, deputy coroner, said the boy suffered a fractured skull. Mrs. Bucher, he said, suffered a heart attack.
ONE OTHER WITNESS
Police said other than Mrs. Bucher, the only other witness to the accident in addition to the driver, was Rufus Longenecker. who operates a store nearby.
From Longenecker police learned the boy may have become panicky when the bicycle apparently got away from him as he was coming down the hill.
He was a second grade pupil in the Adamstown Grade School and a member of the Emmanuel Evangelical Congregational Sunday School of Adamstown.
In addition to his parents, and grandfather, Harry B. Bucher, he is survived by two brothers and a sister, Linda Ellen, Curtis Allen and Gordon Lee. Also surviving is a great-great-grandmother, Mrs. Katie Schoenley Yeakel, Adamstown.
Mrs. Bucher was also a member of Emmanuel E. C. Church. and its organizations. She was a daughter of the late Rev. Harris Yeakel, who had a charge in Adamstown in 1912. and Mrs. Katie S. Yeakel. In addition to her husband and mother, she is survived by a daughter, Rebecca, wife of Wilbur L. Glass, and a brother, Homer Yeakel, Aqua, Conn.
DOUBLE VIEWING
A double viewing will also be observed for the boy and his grandmother at the Kindt Memorial Home Monday evening from 7 to 9 pm. The Rev. H. E. Baker will be in charge of the funeral services.
Police said Dr. Levenson issued a verdict of accidental death in the boy's case. He said he would confer with Dr. H. M. Yoder, County Coroner, to determine whether an inquest is necessary. Mrs. Lesher, driver of the car, was also under a physician's care last night for shock.