She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband which went out of control and off the right side of the roadway and crashed into a bridge abutment. The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Friday, 1.6 miles north of Newcomerstown.

The Frocks were traveling toward New Philadelphia at the time of the accident. Mr. Frock was treated for injuries at the office of a Newcomerstown physician. The automobile, a Comet, was badly damaged in the crash.

The New Philadelphia post of the Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating the accident.

Helen Virtue Frock was born September 14, 1914 in Guernsey County, a daughter of Charles and Nellie Montgomery Virtue and was married September 14, 1949 to Gene D. Frock, who survives. She belonged to the North Salem United Presbyterian Church.

A graduate of Muskingum College at New Concord, she took graduate work at Ohio State University. She had been teaching for 18 years, the last 11 years at Newcomerstown. The past year she taught seventh grade English.

Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the McCracken-Thorn Funeral Home in Cambridge with Dr. Chester Evans in charge. Burial will be in Northwood Cemetery in Cambridge, Ohio.

Visiting hours at the Cambridge funeral home will be Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Teacher, Pedestrian Killed
In County Traffic Mishaps

Daily Reporter: Saturday, June 10, 1967 - Tuscarawas County recorded its 10th and 11th traffic fatalities within 5 hours yesterday.

Mrs. Helen E. Frock, 53, of RD 1, Kimbolton, Ohio, a Newcomerstown High School teacher, was killed almost instantly at 4:30p.m. in a single-car accident near Newcomerstown and John F. McConnell, 88 of RD 2, Dover, Ohio, died of a crushed skull at 9:50 last night after struck by 2 autos while crossing Route 8, about 3 miles north of Dover.

Coroner Phillip Doughten, who made the fatality rulings, said Mrs. Frock died of a fractured skull.

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Mrs. Frock was a passenger in an auto driven by her husband, Gene D. Frock, 50. Patrolmen said it went off Route 21, 1 mile north of Newcomerstown, Ohio, and struck a bridge abutment. Mr. Frock suffered minor injuries and was treated by a physician.

Mrs. Frock taught 12 years in the Newcomerstown school system. Prior to that she taught in Cambridge schools 6 years. She instructed English and science classes.

Born in Guernsey County, Mrs. Frock was a daughter of the late Charles and Nettie Montgomery Virtue. A member of North Salem United Presbyterian Church, she was a graduate of Muskingum College and completed graduate work at Ohio State University.