Anna Laura Goble

Anna Laura Goble

Birth
Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Death
28 Feb 1958 (aged 9)
Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Ivel, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.


For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.


27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.


Anna along with her brothers James and John Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning. Anna was a fourth grader at Prestonsburg Elementary School.

On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.


For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.


27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.


Anna along with her brothers James and John Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning. Anna was a fourth grader at Prestonsburg Elementary School.


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