Clinton Courier March 12, 1970 Leaves Infant Daughter 16-Year-Old Night Club Singer Killed In Wreck Near Clinton A young nightclub singer was killed instantly at 1 a.m Saturday when her friend's car left Oak Ridge Highway (State 61) a tenth of a mile east of Clinton city limits and crashed into a rock embankment. Mrs. Teresa Ann Huckaby Bracken, 16, of 814 Hill St. in Clinton, was crushed to death when the 1965 Corvair slammed against the rocks. The driver, Blair Echnoz, 22, of 315 West Board St. in Clinton, suffered a fractured right leg and punctured lungs. He was in fair condition in the intensive care unit at Oak Ridge Hospital. Mrs. Bracken was the mother of a 6 month-old daughter, Stephanie Lynn Bracken. The young mother had sung Friday night with the Playmates at the Amvets Post No.2 in Oak Ridge and was enroute home to Clinton, relatives said. Mrs. Bracken was living apart from her husband, Daniel E. Bracken of Oak Ridge, and a divorce suit had been filed in Anderson County but had not been heard, court records show. She was married at 14. In addition to night club singing Mrs. Bracken was a clerk for Clinton Roofers in South Clinton.She also was preparing to cut a record with another band. The Details, on a Consolidated Artists label. Friends said she had sung county blues since she was a child. Echnoz had just returned from the Army in Vietnam and works with John Cole Construction Co. in Clinton. He lives with his mother, Mrs. Clara Echnoz, at 315 Broad St. State Trooper David E. Davenport said Echnoz was driving east toward Clinton when he lost control of his car, struck a guard rail on the right, traveled 238 feet, crossed the highway and crashed into the rock enbankment on the left side of the highway.The car was demolished. The trooper said Echnoz was traveling at a high rate of speed. Mrs. Bracken was killed at the same location at which four person, three of whom were Morgan County sisters, were killed Aug. 5, 1969. The Clinch River is on one side of the Highway 61 and the steep rock enbankment is on the other. The trooper said Mrs. Bracken and Echnoz were alone. The accident was witnessed by Ronnie Hensley of Norris who was behind the Echnoz car, the officer said. Mrs. Bracken attended Clinton Senior High until she dropped out in late 1968 to get married, relatives said. She was born in Lake City and was adopted and raised by her grandmother, Mrs. Sylvia Huckaby. Since she left her husband, Mrs. Bracken had been living with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother in Clinton. Mrs. Bracken is survived by her mother, Mrs. Shirley Braden Willis Parton, grandmother, Mrs. Huckaby and great-grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Stocks, all of Clinton, father, Floyd Braden Jr. of Lake City, and several half- sisters and brothers. Mrs. Bracken was a member of Big Creek Baptist Church at Lafollette but attended North Clinton Baptist Church. Services were held at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Martin Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev. R.L. Lovette officiating.The Playmates and The Details served as pallbearers. Burial was in Anderson Memorial Gardens on Highway 61 west of Clinton.