Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

2008-02-23
Collection: 2008

Title

2008-02-23

Subject

Garcia, Tegan D.

Mendoza, Michelle

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas

http://augustahistoricalsociety.com

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

2008-02-26

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

b13#24 2008



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2008-02-23,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1743.
Text

Tegan D. Garcia

Arrangements entrusted to Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta.
Tegan D. Garcia, 18, was born Nov. 26, 1989 in Augusta and passed away Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008 in Wichita, as a result of an automobile accident.
Viewing 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, with family to greet friends from 6-8 p.m.; service at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, all at Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta.
Tegan attended Augusta schools and worked at Green Lantern car wash in Wichita. She was the beloved daughter of Diana Schroff of Augusta and Troy Garcia of Benton.
Other survivors include; her step-father, Robert Schroff of Augusta; one sister, Tessa Garcia of Benton, Tegan s grandparents, Arlene McClure of Newton, Lee and Julie Wilkinson of Ark City, and Barbara Ratley of Newton; her great-grandma, Verl Conroy of Ark City, and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends will all miss her.
She loved her red Blackberry pearl cell phone as well as her guitars and music. She also loved her friends and her cats, Simba and Joey. Troy, her dad, said, Tegan enjoyed life, played her guitars and would spend time with her friends who will miss her beautiful smile."

Two women died in unrelated traffic accidents in Butler County Saturday night.
Tegan Garcia, 18, died from injuries suffered in a two-car collision on Northwest Butler Road. This accident
happened around 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Forty-seven-year-old Michelle Mendoza, was killed in a car-truck collision on Highway 77. This accident happened around 7 p.m. Saturday.
Weather conditions were cited as a factor in both fatal crashes. After a rainy day, Butler County received snowfall during the evening hours.
Both accidents were investigated by officers of the Butler County Sheriffs Office.
Sheriff Craig Murphy said Tegan Garcia was a passenger in a soutbound Dodge Neon operated by her father Todd Garcia
Sheriff Murphy said the elder Garcia lost control of his car and was struck by a northbound in the 3500 block of NW Butler Road.
Kimberly Stanfield of Benton was reported as driver of the northbound Toyota SUV.
She and Mr. Garcia escaped serious injury, Mendoza was driving a Dodge Neon which went out of control on the Walnut River bridge just south of Augusta.
She lost control of her car and crashed into a northbound Ford pickup truck operated by Brendan Decker of Douglass. Decker and his wife Mickey escaped serious injury.

Original Format

Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page