Adams, Rita
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Thibodaux Comet; Feb. 8, 1940, Thursday
Submitted by Cynthia F. Daigle

Rita Adams

(From Times-Pic Feb.8) Miss Rita Adams, 16 years old, Golden Meadow, died 
Wednesday in Charity hospital of head injuries received on January 29 when an 
automobile in which she was riding with four other persons skidded on ice on the 
Robert S. Maestri bridge over Lake Pontchartrain and crashed into a concrete 
pillar.
The death of Miss Adams increased to 9 the number of automobile accident 
fatalities in New Orleans since January 1. A sister, Miss Bertha Adams, 18, who 
was in the same accident, died January 31 of a skull fracture and cerebral 
hemorrhage.