Mabel Adair

Sunday Journal Lincoln NE. September 10, 1933, Page 1, col. 2.

Young Woman Killed Nine Others Injured

Mabel Adair Meets Death in Journey to 'Surprise' Her Mother.

North Platte (AP) Planning a surprise visit to her mother in Detroit, Miss Mabel Adair about 30 years old of Colton, California, was killed in a collision Saturday. Nine other persons were injured, one seriously, but the physicians expected them to recover.

After the accident near Herdhey, Neb. spectators pulled a large nail from a tire on Miss Adair's automobile and supposed that a blowout had caused it to crash into a car occupied by Lee Geddart and his companions went to a Sutherland hospital. Miss Anna McSweeney was the most seriously  injured.

With Miss Adair were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris of Los Angeles who said she was planning the surprise visit to her mother. They suffered bruises and cuts and were brought to a hospital here. Authorities were trying tp locate her mother, whose name and addresses the Harris's did not recall.

By Mary Bishop

Mabel Adair is the daughter of Charles T. Adair & Eunice McClure Hendy and the Granddaughter of Dr. John Jackson Adair & Sallie Ewalt Adair