Janice Patricia Reilly (abt. 1938 - 1960)

Born about 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Died 20 Jul 1960 at about age 22 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

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Biography

Jan died while travelling overseas with three friends in a car accident in Germany in 1960. The other three survived. She was the only one killed. She is my cousin. I remember the day we were told she died. Her family lived around the corner from my family. My father told me that his sister, Jan's mother, was advised of her death by a newspaper reporter telling her after knocking on her door.

Sources

• GIRL DIES

IN CRASH FRANKFURT (West Ger many), Wednesday (A.A.P.). -Four Australian girls were Fix this textinjured, one fatally, when their car smashed into a pole on a road outside Frankfurt Janice Patricia Reilly, 22. of Sydney, was killed in the smash. Her companions Pamela Bennett, Brisbane and Sydney girls Patricia Pearson and Beverley Hoop', er, were unconscious in a Frankfurt Hospital last night, A. doctor, however, said that none was in a; critical condi tion.

The Canberra Times, Thu 21 July 1960, page 21

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137119186?searchTerm=janice%20reilly