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Press Gazette Hillsboro, Ohio August 25, 1958 Tavern Owner Is Killed in Wreck Friday Evening Rites for Mrs. Ada Whitley Sonner Are Held at Greenfield A Greenfield tavern operator, Mrs. Ada Whitley Sooner, 60, was killed in an auto accident on Route 70 just south of the Fayette-Madison County line about 7:45 P. M. Friday. Mrs. Sonner, until recently the owner of Ada’s Place in Greenfield, suffered a crushed chest, fractured jaw and other injuries when the car she was driving left the road on a curve and overturned, pinning her under the vehicle. She was alone at the time. Dr. Hugh Payton, acting Fayette County coroner, pronounced her dead at the scene of the crash, which was about 1,000 feet south of the Fayette-Madison line. Sheriff Orland Hayes, who investigated, said Mrs. Sonner apparently lost control on her car as it rounded a curve. She was thrown from the car and crushed beneath it as it rolled into the ditch. A tractor was used to remove the auto so her body could be released. The sheriff said all the windshield of the auto was missing and all other glass was shattered. The car was virtually demolished. Mrs. Sonner, better known as Ada Whitley, her business name, was returning from Urbana when the crash occurred. She recently sold her business in Greenfield and had purchased the Shamrock Tavern in Urbana. She still lived just north of Greenfield, however, with her husband Wilber J. (Joe) Sonner, whom she married last March. Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary Ross, Greenfield, one brother Charles Ross, Otway, sever sisters, Mrs. Allie Cox, Otway, Mrs. Ella Carter, Greenfield, Mrs. Lucille Baldwin, Bellefontaine, Mrs. Janie Cox, Lyndon, Mrs. Roma Dunlap, Greenfield, Mrs. Oakie Gillie, Otway, and Mrs. Abbie Mattie, Rarden. Services were held Monday at 2 P.M. at the Murray funeral home in Greenfield, with Dr. Paul Jones officiating and interment following in the New Market Baptist cemetery.  |