DELAWARE--A former Marion man lost his life Tuesday as he was attempting to walk across a busy four-lane highway about 2 1/2 miles north of here, local highway patrolmen reported today.
Dead is R. Walter Yeagle, 81, of RR 1, Deleware. He is the country's ninth highway fatality.
Officers said that a car driven by Vera McDanel, 58, of RR 6, Marion, was traveling north on Rt. 23 about 6:30 p.m. when the elderly man, walking toward the west, appeared in the path of her car. She not stop in time and her car struck Yeagle.
He was taken to Jane Case Hospital here, suffering from abrasions and contusions and internal injuries. He died at the hospital at 10:25 p.m. HIs body was taken to the Doty Funeral Home.
No charges were filed against the McDanel woman, patrolmen said.
Mr. Yeagle was born March 23, 1883, at Minford, a son of Philip and Mary Jane Bennett Yeagle. An Erie Railroad carman 32 years, he had resided in Delaware 16 years after leaving Marion. He was a member of Oakland EUB Church here, Woodmen of the World Lodge and Erie Lodge 1008.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Zilla Veach Yeagle; a son, Marion L. of Crystal Lake, Ill.; a daughter Mrs. Maurita Jaycox of Pennsylvania; three grandchildren; two brothers, Jess of Portsmouth and John of Minford, and a sister Mrs. Mary Brock of Sciotoville. Four brothers and two sisters are deceased.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the Boyd Funeral Home. Burial will be in Marion Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday and Friday from 7:30 to 9 p.m.