Extracted from The Kerrville Times (Kerrville, TX)
Sunday, July 26, 1953

Mrs. T. M. Hyde, 72, Fatally Injured And Six Hurt In Crash At Garven's Store Friday Night

A highway collision of two automobiles in front of Garven's Store between Rock Springs and Mountain Home Friday night claimed the life of Mrs. T. M. Hyde, 72, prominent Divide ranch woman, and sent six other persons to the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital with injuries.

Injured were Mrs. Hyde's daughter, Mrs. Ervin Ahrens of Kerrville and the three Ahrens children. Injured in the other car involved in the accident, were Johnny Juensky of Odessa, and a passenger, Billy McSwain, a Marine from Camp Pendleton, Calif.

McSwain was transferred to the Veterans Administration Hospital at Legion Saturday morning for continued treatment to his injuries.

The accident occurred in the early darkness as the automobile carrying Mrs. Hyde and the Ahrens family pulled across the highway from Garven's Store towards a community gathering. Mack Hyde, who had been a passenger in the ill-fated car a few moments before, escaped injury when he decided to walk to the assembly grounds from the store where they had stopped briefly.

Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Smith Funeral Home, and burial will be in the Sunset Cemetery near Mountain Home. Time of the rites are pending contact with a sister who is visiting in Montana.

Mrs. Carrie Emaline Hyde was a native of Kerr County, born October 15, 1880. She had lived all her life in her beloved Hill Country, where she gained the love, devotion, and respect of her family and friends with a constant outpouring of understanding and service to an ever-widening circle of acquaintances.

She is survived by her husband, T. M. Hyde of Mountain Home; four children, Clarence Hyde of Mountain Home, Mrs. Burnett Lee of Hunt, Mrs. Chase Heffernan of Junction and Mrs. Ervin Ahrens of Kerrville; three sisters, Mrs. Mills Stansell of Raton, New Mexico, and Mrs. Hazel Sumpter and Mrs. Mattie Riggs, both of Shafter, California. Ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also mourn her passing.