(11/19/40 - 01/18/58)

    Tragedy on an icy stretch of highway ended a post skating party auto ride Friday evening about 10:35 p.m.  One youth was killed, and six companions injured as their car spun around on a slick spot on the Marietta Pike and slammed into a tree.    

    Fatally injured was Larry DeLong, 17, a junior at Chillicothe High School, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeLong of 558 Vine Street.  He died at 1:35 a.m. in Chillicothe Hospital. 

    Larry Prior DeLong was born in this city on November 19, 1940, the son of H. Frank and Beulah DeBord DeLong.  A junior in Chillicothe High School he was president of the Golden Eagles Junior Hi-Y and was a member of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church.

    Surviving in addition to his parents are six sisters, Mrs. Russell Drummond, Mrs. Spencer Dixon, and Mrs. Jack Barrows all of Chillicothe; Mrs. Robert Page, Federal Reservation; and Mrs. June Rinehart and Mrs. Evelyn Arledge, both at home; and one brother, Nolan DeLong, Athens.

    Service will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Ware Funeral Home with the Rev. Raymond Welch officiating.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home after Sunday noon.

    [The above information was taken from the January 18, 1958 Chillicothe Gazette article concerning the automobile accident.  Below is the Funeral Notice for Larry which was published in the January 21, 1958 edition of the Chillicothe Gazette.]

    Service for Larry P. DeLong was at 2 p.m. Monday at the Ware Funeral Home with the Rev. Raymond Welch officiating.  Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery.

    Pallbearers were Thomas Dixon, James Lungo, David Evans, Robert Lanzer, David Hirsch, Jim Burrus, and David DeLong.