 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas  Harry C. McHanny 1940 - 1975 Mesha J. McHanny 1965 - 1975 Gevonna N. McHanny 1967 - 1975 Byron K. McHanny 1971 - 1975 Essie J. McHanny 1948 - 1975 The Paris News
Monday, December 22, 1975 pg.14 CRASH KILLS SEVEN Whitewright, Texas (AP) - All seven occupants died Sunday as a car jumped a ditch and rammed into an embankment near here in North Texas. "The car was going south on (Texas) 160, a state police spokesman said. Apparently it just went off the road and over the ditch." The accident happened three miles south of Whitewright soon after 5 p.m. All the dead were from nearby Sherman, which is about 80 miles north of Dallas. Officers listed them as Fred McHanny, 59; Jean McHanny, 27; Harry McHanny, 35; Byron Keith McHanny, 4; Mesha McHanny, 10; Gevonna McHanny, 8; and Kevin Brisco, 11. The three McHanny youngsters were the children of Harry and Jean McHanny, authorities said. Denton Record-Chronicle Tuesday, December 23, 1975 pg.2 BOY WHO LOST FAMILY WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS Sherman, Texas (UPI) - Relatives of Landrus Lee McHanny, a 9-year-old boy who lost all of his immediate family in a weekend car crash, are going to try to make the best of Christmas. "We're going to try to go ahead with Christmas, but it's gonna be hard," said the boy's aunt, who asked to remain unidentified. "He's a strong little boy and he's taking it pretty good." But the aunt said things won't be the same without her brother, Harry, 35, and his family. "Without him it will be hard." she said. "He was always the life of the family. But, I'm quite sure Landrus Lee will have a good Christmas." While Landrus went to a Christmas program with his grandmother Sunday, his parents, brother, two sisters and two friends went for a drive through the dry farmlands of North Texas. The car ran off the road, careened across a creek and crashed into an embankment, killing all seven occupants. McHanny worked on an assembly line at a tool company, and kept some livestock, pigs and cows, on rented land in the county. "They were coming back to Sherman, I'm quite sure." the aunt said. "All I know is my brother was going down to Whitewright to get some hay for his cows. He kind of took the family along as an outing." West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2017 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |