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Schoolboy Struck by Car
Injuries suffered last Wednesday when stuck by an automobile proved fatal yesterday to a Kanawha County schoolboy.
Arnold Lee Hackney, 12. son of Mr and Mrs Otmer Hackney of Charleston Rt 4, died in Charleston General Hospital. He had compound fractures of both legs and a fractured skull. The boy had been near death since the time of the accident.
The Hackney residence is on Lakewood Drive, off US 21, eight miles north of Charleston.
An investigating state trooper said witnesses related Arnold Lee ran down Lakewood Drive and into Us 21 without looking in either direction as he started across the highway to a school bus stop. The driver of the car that struck him was not charged.
The boy was a seventh grace pupil at Sissonville Junior High school. His death is the 10th highway fatality of the year in Kanawha County.
Surviving besides the parents are three sisters, Valerie, Cathy and Carolyn and two brothers, David and Rodney, at home.
Funeral services wil be Tuesday at 2 pm in the Pocataligo Community Church on Lakewood Drive. The rev ray Jones and the Rev Bertram Young will officiate Burial will be in the John Beane Cemetery at Sissonville.
The body is at Long and Fisher Funeral Home here. It will be taken to the church an hour before services.
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