This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7782 Message Board Post: Auto Accident Fatal to One Edwin Leroy Young, 31, Warrant Officer of the USN, enroute on orders from San Diego to the Naval Adm. Com. Post Graduate School in Monterey died Tuesday night, October 6, at 7:25 in the Mojave Medical Center. Young, who was a passenger in a car driven by his wife Dorothy H., accompanied by their children, Kathleen Ann 1, and Eloise Lois, 4, was thrown from the car when the left rear tire blew out causing the car to turn over four times. The accident occurred 11 miles south of Mojave on Highway 6 and Young suffered a basal skull fracture and internal injuries. The baby Kathleen suffered a broken right leg and Mrs. Young sustained an extreme shock. The other child was uninjured. O'Donnell. ambulance took the injured people to Mojave Medical Center. Mr. Young's body will be shipped to Santa Cruz, Calif. for interment. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 08 O(ct 1953 '