Kern County Obituaries

Alma Alberta Heaton

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 24 Apr 1952

Death Caused By Tire Blowout
A blowout was the cause of a head-on collision Saturday afternoon, resulting in 
death to one woman and major injuries to a father and infant son.
The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. on Highway 466 9˝ miles east of Mojave. A 
car driven by Neil E. Lance, Seattle went out of control after a tire blew out and 
swerved into the path of another car coming from the opposite direction driven by 
Adoniran Peake, accompanied by his wife and 3 small children of Lafayette, Calif.
The impact was so great that the engine of the Lance car was torn from its 
mountings and was found lying several yards away. Mrs. Peake was thrown from 
his car and found beside the road.
The other occupants of the Lance car were Miss Alberta Englehart, Lance's fiancé 
and her mother Mrs. Alma Alberta Heaton, both of Arlington, Calif.
All the persons involved were brought to the Mojave Hospital by the O'Donnell 
ambulance. Mrs. Heaton died there Tuesday morning at 9:30 A.M. from her 
injuries. Mr. Peake received treatment for a shattered heel bone and the smallest of 
the Peake children, John, 8 months, was found to have a broken thigh bone. The 
others received only minor injuries.
The Peake family have been sent to Oakland where father and son will be 
hospitalized for further treatment. Mr. Peake is employed in that city with the Kaiser 
Steel Corp.
Further injury to the Peake children was possibly avoided by the quick thinking of 
Mrs. Peake. On seeing they were going to crash, she turned and swept the children 
from the back seat onto the floor.	
 Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Heaton are pending at the O'Donnell Funeral 
Home. She is survived, in addition to her daughter, by her mother Mrs. George 
Heaton, also of Arlington.