Memories of a Sister......................
Tynia was a friendly, free spirit, a die hard Steelers fan and a had a love of Christmas. Giving small simple gifts with a loving meaning behind them. Tynia was one of a kind, with strawberry blond hair and bright blue eyes. A zest for life and a hometown smile that lit up the room, she was a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Granddaughter and she will be sorely missed.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, died Nov. 25, 1994, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville from injuries she received in an automobile accident Thursday evening.
She was born March 11, 1968, in Laurel, Md., and was the daughter of Patricia Hill Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford, and Larry Leroy Wilburn, Dayton.
She graduated from Turner Ashby High School and attended the Church of God. She was employed by Owens Brockway in Harrisonburg.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by three children, Karen R., Jennifer Marie and Timothy James Warner Jr ., all of Hinton; A brother, Larry Leroy Wilburn III, Staunton, and one half brother, John Wayne Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; two half sisters, Holly Michelle Wilburn, and Stefanie Tessa Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; grandparents, James and Annie Hill, Lothian, Md., and Leroy and Lucille Wilburn, Penn Laird; and a great grandmother, Pearl Talbot, Lanham, Md.
The Rev. Robert E. Mitzelfelt will conduct the funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lindsey Harrisonburg Funeral Home.
Burial will follow in the Mount Clinton Mennonite Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends 7-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
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Woman Dies
After Car Crash
A Keezletown woman died Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after apparently being a passenger in a automobile drag race Thanksgiving Day, a Virginia State Police dispatcher said.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, was a passenger in a 1987 Ford Mustang driven by Robert Clifford Landes, the dispatcher said, reading from a fatality report by Trooper G.S. Cooper. Landes was apparently drag-racing another vehicle at 11:40 p.m. in Rockingham County, the dispatcher said. The cars were moving west on Va. 257 about four/ tenths of a mile west of Va. 604, the dispatcher said.
The Mustang went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole and went over an embankment, the dispatcher said.
Warner was taken to U.Va. Medical Center, where she died 4:30 a.m. Friday, the dispatcher said.
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Charges will be filed following an investigation into a drag racing accident Thanksgiving Day west of Briery Branch, State Trooper G.S. Cooper said Monday.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, a passenger, in one of two vehicles racing down a mile-long straightaway on Va. 257 west of Va. 604, was fatally injured when the car in which she was riding couldn't negotiate a slight turn at the end of the course, Cooper said.
The driver of the 1987 Ford Mustang, Robert Clifford Landes, 20, Harrisonburg, was not wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the vehicle, Cooper said.
Landes was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released the next day, he said.
Warner, who was wearing her seatbelt, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville about five hours after the 11:40 p.m. crash.
Cooper said he will interview Landes and Johnny Berry, 35, Dayton, driver of the 1982 Mustang racing Landes, before discussing charges with Commonwealth's Attorney Douglas T. Stark. Cooper anticipated filing as many as five charges against two people, whom he would not name.
Filing charges could take at least a week. Riding in Berry's car were Landes' brother and a woman, Cooper said.
Landes and Warner were the only occupants of the wrecked car. Cooper said all five worked together, but did not say where.
An obituary for Warner said she was employed by Owens Brockway Plastics Inc. in Harrisonburg.
According to Cooper, Berry won the drag race and slowed down at the end of a mile stretch. Landes, perhaps thinking the race was not over, passed Berry at a high rate of speed and could not contend with a slight curve in the road, Cooper said.
There was apparently no physical contact between the cars, Cooper said. Landes' went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole, and went over an embankment.
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RACING DISTINCTIONS
After reading the article entitled "Charges Due In Drag Racing Death" in your Tuesday, November 29th edition of the Daily News-Record, I feel compelled to clear up an all too common misconception.
The death of Ms, Tynia Luann Warner was surely tragic, but her death was the result of a street racing accident, and not that of a drag racing accident. Drag racing is a nationally sanctioned sport which operates under the strictest of safety guidelines. To confuse the senseless death of Ms. Warner with the sport is unfair to her as well as to all the legally licensed drag racers in this country. As a professional drag racer for four years, I feel it necessary to inform your readers of the dangers of this type of action on our highways. Drag racing is performed in cars with highly specified roll cages and bodies to protect the drivers in crashes that may occur at speeds exceeding 250 to 300 miles per hour. Anyone who has not been trained to handle a car at excessive speeds should not attempt any type of racing on or off the track. I extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Ms. Warner.
Lauren D. Webb
Harrisonburg
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Charges of man slaughter were eventually filed for him and he really got out of it all. He had to go to jail and got out everyday on work release, so he served NO real time for taking a life so wrecklessly. He was also drinking at the time of the accident.
Tynia was a friendly, free spirit, a die hard Steelers fan and a had a love of Christmas. Giving small simple gifts with a loving meaning behind them. Tynia was one of a kind, with strawberry blond hair and bright blue eyes. A zest for life and a hometown smile that lit up the room, she was a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Granddaughter and she will be sorely missed.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, died Nov. 25, 1994, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville from injuries she received in an automobile accident Thursday evening.
She was born March 11, 1968, in Laurel, Md., and was the daughter of Patricia Hill Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford, and Larry Leroy Wilburn, Dayton.
She graduated from Turner Ashby High School and attended the Church of God. She was employed by Owens Brockway in Harrisonburg.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by three children, Karen R., Jennifer Marie and Timothy James Warner Jr ., all of Hinton; A brother, Larry Leroy Wilburn III, Staunton, and one half brother, John Wayne Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; two half sisters, Holly Michelle Wilburn, and Stefanie Tessa Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; grandparents, James and Annie Hill, Lothian, Md., and Leroy and Lucille Wilburn, Penn Laird; and a great grandmother, Pearl Talbot, Lanham, Md.
The Rev. Robert E. Mitzelfelt will conduct the funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lindsey Harrisonburg Funeral Home.
Burial will follow in the Mount Clinton Mennonite Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends 7-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
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Woman Dies
After Car Crash
A Keezletown woman died Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after apparently being a passenger in a automobile drag race Thanksgiving Day, a Virginia State Police dispatcher said.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, was a passenger in a 1987 Ford Mustang driven by Robert Clifford Landes, the dispatcher said, reading from a fatality report by Trooper G.S. Cooper. Landes was apparently drag-racing another vehicle at 11:40 p.m. in Rockingham County, the dispatcher said. The cars were moving west on Va. 257 about four/ tenths of a mile west of Va. 604, the dispatcher said.
The Mustang went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole and went over an embankment, the dispatcher said.
Warner was taken to U.Va. Medical Center, where she died 4:30 a.m. Friday, the dispatcher said.
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Charges will be filed following an investigation into a drag racing accident Thanksgiving Day west of Briery Branch, State Trooper G.S. Cooper said Monday.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, a passenger, in one of two vehicles racing down a mile-long straightaway on Va. 257 west of Va. 604, was fatally injured when the car in which she was riding couldn't negotiate a slight turn at the end of the course, Cooper said.
The driver of the 1987 Ford Mustang, Robert Clifford Landes, 20, Harrisonburg, was not wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the vehicle, Cooper said.
Landes was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released the next day, he said.
Warner, who was wearing her seatbelt, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville about five hours after the 11:40 p.m. crash.
Cooper said he will interview Landes and Johnny Berry, 35, Dayton, driver of the 1982 Mustang racing Landes, before discussing charges with Commonwealth's Attorney Douglas T. Stark. Cooper anticipated filing as many as five charges against two people, whom he would not name.
Filing charges could take at least a week. Riding in Berry's car were Landes' brother and a woman, Cooper said.
Landes and Warner were the only occupants of the wrecked car. Cooper said all five worked together, but did not say where.
An obituary for Warner said she was employed by Owens Brockway Plastics Inc. in Harrisonburg.
According to Cooper, Berry won the drag race and slowed down at the end of a mile stretch. Landes, perhaps thinking the race was not over, passed Berry at a high rate of speed and could not contend with a slight curve in the road, Cooper said.
There was apparently no physical contact between the cars, Cooper said. Landes' went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole, and went over an embankment.
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RACING DISTINCTIONS
After reading the article entitled "Charges Due In Drag Racing Death" in your Tuesday, November 29th edition of the Daily News-Record, I feel compelled to clear up an all too common misconception.
The death of Ms, Tynia Luann Warner was surely tragic, but her death was the result of a street racing accident, and not that of a drag racing accident. Drag racing is a nationally sanctioned sport which operates under the strictest of safety guidelines. To confuse the senseless death of Ms. Warner with the sport is unfair to her as well as to all the legally licensed drag racers in this country. As a professional drag racer for four years, I feel it necessary to inform your readers of the dangers of this type of action on our highways. Drag racing is performed in cars with highly specified roll cages and bodies to protect the drivers in crashes that may occur at speeds exceeding 250 to 300 miles per hour. Anyone who has not been trained to handle a car at excessive speeds should not attempt any type of racing on or off the track. I extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Ms. Warner.
Lauren D. Webb
Harrisonburg
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Charges of man slaughter were eventually filed for him and he really got out of it all. He had to go to jail and got out everyday on work release, so he served NO real time for taking a life so wrecklessly. He was also drinking at the time of the accident.
Memories of a Sister......................
Tynia was a friendly, free spirit, a die hard Steelers fan and a had a love of Christmas. Giving small simple gifts with a loving meaning behind them. Tynia was one of a kind, with strawberry blond hair and bright blue eyes. A zest for life and a hometown smile that lit up the room, she was a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Granddaughter and she will be sorely missed.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, died Nov. 25, 1994, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville from injuries she received in an automobile accident Thursday evening.
She was born March 11, 1968, in Laurel, Md., and was the daughter of Patricia Hill Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford, and Larry Leroy Wilburn, Dayton.
She graduated from Turner Ashby High School and attended the Church of God. She was employed by Owens Brockway in Harrisonburg.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by three children, Karen R., Jennifer Marie and Timothy James Warner Jr ., all of Hinton; A brother, Larry Leroy Wilburn III, Staunton, and one half brother, John Wayne Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; two half sisters, Holly Michelle Wilburn, and Stefanie Tessa Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; grandparents, James and Annie Hill, Lothian, Md., and Leroy and Lucille Wilburn, Penn Laird; and a great grandmother, Pearl Talbot, Lanham, Md.
The Rev. Robert E. Mitzelfelt will conduct the funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lindsey Harrisonburg Funeral Home.
Burial will follow in the Mount Clinton Mennonite Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends 7-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
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Woman Dies
After Car Crash
A Keezletown woman died Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after apparently being a passenger in a automobile drag race Thanksgiving Day, a Virginia State Police dispatcher said.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, was a passenger in a 1987 Ford Mustang driven by Robert Clifford Landes, the dispatcher said, reading from a fatality report by Trooper G.S. Cooper. Landes was apparently drag-racing another vehicle at 11:40 p.m. in Rockingham County, the dispatcher said. The cars were moving west on Va. 257 about four/ tenths of a mile west of Va. 604, the dispatcher said.
The Mustang went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole and went over an embankment, the dispatcher said.
Warner was taken to U.Va. Medical Center, where she died 4:30 a.m. Friday, the dispatcher said.
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Charges will be filed following an investigation into a drag racing accident Thanksgiving Day west of Briery Branch, State Trooper G.S. Cooper said Monday.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, a passenger, in one of two vehicles racing down a mile-long straightaway on Va. 257 west of Va. 604, was fatally injured when the car in which she was riding couldn't negotiate a slight turn at the end of the course, Cooper said.
The driver of the 1987 Ford Mustang, Robert Clifford Landes, 20, Harrisonburg, was not wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the vehicle, Cooper said.
Landes was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released the next day, he said.
Warner, who was wearing her seatbelt, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville about five hours after the 11:40 p.m. crash.
Cooper said he will interview Landes and Johnny Berry, 35, Dayton, driver of the 1982 Mustang racing Landes, before discussing charges with Commonwealth's Attorney Douglas T. Stark. Cooper anticipated filing as many as five charges against two people, whom he would not name.
Filing charges could take at least a week. Riding in Berry's car were Landes' brother and a woman, Cooper said.
Landes and Warner were the only occupants of the wrecked car. Cooper said all five worked together, but did not say where.
An obituary for Warner said she was employed by Owens Brockway Plastics Inc. in Harrisonburg.
According to Cooper, Berry won the drag race and slowed down at the end of a mile stretch. Landes, perhaps thinking the race was not over, passed Berry at a high rate of speed and could not contend with a slight curve in the road, Cooper said.
There was apparently no physical contact between the cars, Cooper said. Landes' went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole, and went over an embankment.
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RACING DISTINCTIONS
After reading the article entitled "Charges Due In Drag Racing Death" in your Tuesday, November 29th edition of the Daily News-Record, I feel compelled to clear up an all too common misconception.
The death of Ms, Tynia Luann Warner was surely tragic, but her death was the result of a street racing accident, and not that of a drag racing accident. Drag racing is a nationally sanctioned sport which operates under the strictest of safety guidelines. To confuse the senseless death of Ms. Warner with the sport is unfair to her as well as to all the legally licensed drag racers in this country. As a professional drag racer for four years, I feel it necessary to inform your readers of the dangers of this type of action on our highways. Drag racing is performed in cars with highly specified roll cages and bodies to protect the drivers in crashes that may occur at speeds exceeding 250 to 300 miles per hour. Anyone who has not been trained to handle a car at excessive speeds should not attempt any type of racing on or off the track. I extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Ms. Warner.
Lauren D. Webb
Harrisonburg
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Charges of man slaughter were eventually filed for him and he really got out of it all. He had to go to jail and got out everyday on work release, so he served NO real time for taking a life so wrecklessly. He was also drinking at the time of the accident.
Tynia was a friendly, free spirit, a die hard Steelers fan and a had a love of Christmas. Giving small simple gifts with a loving meaning behind them. Tynia was one of a kind, with strawberry blond hair and bright blue eyes. A zest for life and a hometown smile that lit up the room, she was a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Granddaughter and she will be sorely missed.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, died Nov. 25, 1994, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville from injuries she received in an automobile accident Thursday evening.
She was born March 11, 1968, in Laurel, Md., and was the daughter of Patricia Hill Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford, and Larry Leroy Wilburn, Dayton.
She graduated from Turner Ashby High School and attended the Church of God. She was employed by Owens Brockway in Harrisonburg.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by three children, Karen R., Jennifer Marie and Timothy James Warner Jr ., all of Hinton; A brother, Larry Leroy Wilburn III, Staunton, and one half brother, John Wayne Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; two half sisters, Holly Michelle Wilburn, and Stefanie Tessa Allen, Route 2, Mount Crawford; grandparents, James and Annie Hill, Lothian, Md., and Leroy and Lucille Wilburn, Penn Laird; and a great grandmother, Pearl Talbot, Lanham, Md.
The Rev. Robert E. Mitzelfelt will conduct the funeral at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Lindsey Harrisonburg Funeral Home.
Burial will follow in the Mount Clinton Mennonite Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends 7-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
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Woman Dies
After Car Crash
A Keezletown woman died Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after apparently being a passenger in a automobile drag race Thanksgiving Day, a Virginia State Police dispatcher said.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, was a passenger in a 1987 Ford Mustang driven by Robert Clifford Landes, the dispatcher said, reading from a fatality report by Trooper G.S. Cooper. Landes was apparently drag-racing another vehicle at 11:40 p.m. in Rockingham County, the dispatcher said. The cars were moving west on Va. 257 about four/ tenths of a mile west of Va. 604, the dispatcher said.
The Mustang went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole and went over an embankment, the dispatcher said.
Warner was taken to U.Va. Medical Center, where she died 4:30 a.m. Friday, the dispatcher said.
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Charges will be filed following an investigation into a drag racing accident Thanksgiving Day west of Briery Branch, State Trooper G.S. Cooper said Monday.
Tynia Luann Warner, 26, Keezletown, a passenger, in one of two vehicles racing down a mile-long straightaway on Va. 257 west of Va. 604, was fatally injured when the car in which she was riding couldn't negotiate a slight turn at the end of the course, Cooper said.
The driver of the 1987 Ford Mustang, Robert Clifford Landes, 20, Harrisonburg, was not wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the vehicle, Cooper said.
Landes was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released the next day, he said.
Warner, who was wearing her seatbelt, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville about five hours after the 11:40 p.m. crash.
Cooper said he will interview Landes and Johnny Berry, 35, Dayton, driver of the 1982 Mustang racing Landes, before discussing charges with Commonwealth's Attorney Douglas T. Stark. Cooper anticipated filing as many as five charges against two people, whom he would not name.
Filing charges could take at least a week. Riding in Berry's car were Landes' brother and a woman, Cooper said.
Landes and Warner were the only occupants of the wrecked car. Cooper said all five worked together, but did not say where.
An obituary for Warner said she was employed by Owens Brockway Plastics Inc. in Harrisonburg.
According to Cooper, Berry won the drag race and slowed down at the end of a mile stretch. Landes, perhaps thinking the race was not over, passed Berry at a high rate of speed and could not contend with a slight curve in the road, Cooper said.
There was apparently no physical contact between the cars, Cooper said. Landes' went off the side of the road, hit a utility pole, and went over an embankment.
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RACING DISTINCTIONS
After reading the article entitled "Charges Due In Drag Racing Death" in your Tuesday, November 29th edition of the Daily News-Record, I feel compelled to clear up an all too common misconception.
The death of Ms, Tynia Luann Warner was surely tragic, but her death was the result of a street racing accident, and not that of a drag racing accident. Drag racing is a nationally sanctioned sport which operates under the strictest of safety guidelines. To confuse the senseless death of Ms. Warner with the sport is unfair to her as well as to all the legally licensed drag racers in this country. As a professional drag racer for four years, I feel it necessary to inform your readers of the dangers of this type of action on our highways. Drag racing is performed in cars with highly specified roll cages and bodies to protect the drivers in crashes that may occur at speeds exceeding 250 to 300 miles per hour. Anyone who has not been trained to handle a car at excessive speeds should not attempt any type of racing on or off the track. I extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Ms. Warner.
Lauren D. Webb
Harrisonburg
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Charges of man slaughter were eventually filed for him and he really got out of it all. He had to go to jail and got out everyday on work release, so he served NO real time for taking a life so wrecklessly. He was also drinking at the time of the accident.
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