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Cecil W. Colbert

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Cecil W. Colbert

Birth
Carroll County, Missouri, USA
Death
7 Jul 1955 (aged 50)
South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
U - 21
Memorial ID
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South Bend Man Killed
By NYC Passenger Train
MISHAWAKA, Ind. Cecil W.Colbert, 51,
South Bend, was killed Thursday when
he apparently walked into the side
of an eastbound New York Central
passenger locomotive at a crossing
on the South Bend-Mishawaka boundary.
Colbert was an employee of
Studebaker-Packard Corp. but had
been on sick leave three weeks,
according to his son, Cecil W. Colbert,
Jr., who identified the body.

Logansport Press July 8, 1955
South Bend Man Killed
By NYC Passenger Train
MISHAWAKA, Ind. Cecil W.Colbert, 51,
South Bend, was killed Thursday when
he apparently walked into the side
of an eastbound New York Central
passenger locomotive at a crossing
on the South Bend-Mishawaka boundary.
Colbert was an employee of
Studebaker-Packard Corp. but had
been on sick leave three weeks,
according to his son, Cecil W. Colbert,
Jr., who identified the body.

Logansport Press July 8, 1955


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