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Submitted: 1/19/12 • Approved: 7/22/14 • Last Updated: 7/25/14 • R638555-G638555-S3
November 11, 1911 - June 6, 1936
Wife of Max Coger
*Obituary
The Benton County Democrat
Thursday, June 18, 1936
VICTIM OF ROGERS AUTO-BUS CRASH BURIED AT SONORA
Funeral services for Mrs. Glenna Johnson Coger of Eureka Springs, aged 24, who was killed instantly about 10 o’clock Saturday night in an automobile and bus collision at Rogers in which two other women but passengers were seriously injured, were held Monday afternoon at the Methodist Church at Sonora, the home of her parents, east of Springdale, conducted by the Prairie Grove Baptist Church. Burial was in the Sonora cemetery with funeral arrangements in charge of the Callison-Riggs Funeral Home of Springdale.
Mrs. Coger was fatally injured when the South Fe Trial System bus in which she was riding from Eureka Springs was hit by a new sedan driving by Harold Applegate, proprietor of the Corner Drug Store at Rogers. Rain was falling and the slippery pavement might have caused the crash, reports of the accident said.
The Applegate car was traveling north on Third Street and the bus, which had just left the Rogers union bus station on Second Street, was traveling west on Poplar Street over the “only route” to Highway 71. The crash occurred at the corner of those two streets, and right near the First Christian Church. The bus is said to have turned over twice when the automobile struck it practically in the center of its left side. All but windows except at the rear were broken. One running board is said to have been torn from the car, and the other bent to the ground.
Did Not See Bus Coming
Mr. Applegate said he did not see the bus and did not believe the bus driver saw his approaching car. B. W. Mitchell, driver of the bus, is said to have declined to comment immediately on the wreck.
Mrs. Coger was almost decapitated by glass and her chest was crushed. Two other bus passengers, Mrs. Sarah Sawyer and Mrs. Dan Allen, Jr., of Fayetteville were injured. The former suffered facial wounds and Mrs. Allen a wrenched back and neck. Mrs. Allen and her small son, Dan Allen III, who was not seriously hurt, were riding in the seat with the bus driver, but had at first started to ride in the rear of the bus, which part of the vehicle was demolished by the impact. She and her son were on route home after a visit with her mother at St. Joe, near Harrison; Mrs. Sawyer had been visiting in Eureka Springs.
The driver of the car suffered a cut on the head and from the shock. The bus driver was not seriously injured.
Mrs. Coger was born Nov. 11th, 1911, at Sonora, Washington County. She is surivived by her husband, Max R. Coger, Eureka Springs druggist, and by a small son, Robert Glenn. Other survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Johnson, and two brothers, Hall and C.O. Johnson, all of Sonora.
She was en route to visit her relatives in Sonora when the fatal accident occurred.
Contributed on 1/19/12 by wfields55
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