- Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio)
Killed scraping the windshield on his mother's car when a car slid into it and jack knifed pinning him
The Xenia Daily Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, Wednesday, December 24, 1969
Front Page Headline reads: 'Boy, 14, Killed While Scraping Car Windshield'
A Loveland boy was killed Tuesday when a car crushed him against his mother's car on U. S. Route 68, about seven miles south of Xenia. Gabriel E. Drollinger Jr., 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel E. Drollinger, 1522 Columbia Rd., Loveland, was killed when hit as he stood on the driver's side of the car, scraping the windshield. The car of Mrs. Jennie McMillan, 36, of 533 N. Wood St., Wilmington, approaching from behind, slid into the parked Drollinger car, hit it in the rear, and jackknifed around, pinning the youth, reported Xenia Post, State Highway Patrol.
Young Drollinger was pronounced dead at Greene Memorial Hospital, where he and his mother were taken by Greene County Rescue. Mrs. Drollinger was treated for minor injury.
Obituaries
Gabriel Drollinger
CINCINNATI --Mass of the Resurrection will be sung Saturday at 10 a.m. at Summit Chapel for Gabriel E. (Chip) Drollinger Jr., 14, who was killed on U. S. Route 68 south of Xenia Tuesday.
The boy was cleaning the windshield of his mother's car when the auto was struck by another auto.
He was the son of Gabriel E. and Cecilia Conrey Drollinger of 1522 Columbia Rd., Loveland.
Calling hours will be this evening at Gilligan Funeral Home, Montgomery and Galbraith Rds.
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1955 - 1969 (14 years)
