Plane, Automobile Crashes Claim Lives of Two MTSC Students

You’re reading a story from Sidelines 100, a project showcasing a century of student storytelling at Middle Tennessee State University. Sidelines 100 plans to highlight 100 stories from the newspaper archives this fall and spring.

Two Middle Tennessee State College students lost their lives in separate accidents during the Christmas holiday. Bobbye Faye Snoddy. 22 year-old senior of Hendersonville, died in a motor car crash near Lafayette December 19. Maurice R. Evans. 20, a special student from Donelson died when the airplane which he was riding crashed six miles east of the campus just off the Hall’s Hill road Saturday. January 7.

Mr. Snoddy was killed and his 19 year old brother. Larry Snoddy was injured when the car he was driving en route to LaFayette to a basketball game collided with a car driven by Doyle Waston, 41, of LaFayette…

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