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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO FATAL DECEMBER CRASH By Hometown1
Jan 13, 2021 4:09 AM
State police say they are investigating a fatal accident in Cherryhill Township last month as a criminal matter.
The December 23
rd crash took the life of 14-year-old Brittany Eileen Keith of Penn Run, who was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 34-year-old William Shroyer of Penn Run. Shroyer swerved to try to avoid hitting a car driven by 31-year-old Jeremy Dixon of Northern Cambria, who had crossed the center line on Route 553 near the Route 422 intersection. The vehicles collided and Shroyer’s SUV left the road and hit a tree.
Jackie Korhut found herself in the eye of the COVID-19 hurricane in early December.
Inside a silent room at an otherwise empty bedside, the Indiana Regional Medical Center nurse said a prayer while holding her 80-year-old patientâs hand during his final moments.
Outside the hospital room, alarms were beeping during a âflood of sounds and emotionâ â co-workers rushing to treat an almost endless inbound wave of sick or fading patients, she said.
And just beyond those walls, her patientâs grandson stood alone in a waiting area, grappling with the reality that the man he cherished was dying.
âTo a lot of people right now, itâs easy to see these deaths as just a number,â she said. âBut itâs different when itâs someone you love, or someone you work so hard to take care of â only to watch them go to the other side. Weâre in here every single day doing whatever we can to save these people.â
But to those working on the front lines, itâs so much more than just a statistic.
Jackie Korhut, of East Conemaugh, is a nurse at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
âItâs different when itâs someone you love, or someone you work so hard to take care of â only to watch them go to the other side,â she said.
âWeâre in here every single day doing whatever we can to save these people.â
She described a situation in December, when she held the hand of an elderly patient as he was dying, while his grandson had to wait outside. In another case, a COVID patient arrived just hours before passing, with his family never getting the chance to say goodbye.
Dec 31, 2020 11:06 AM
Gerald “Gerry” E. Ready, 90, of Indiana, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
A son of Thomas and Nellie Eckenroth Ready, he was born May 18, 1930, in Reading.
Mr. Ready received an undergraduate degree from Albright College in Reading and a master’s degree from Millersville University in Millersville. Gerry was a veteran of the United States Army. During that time, he studied Polish for one year at the Army Language School in California so he could work in Military Intelligence in Germany. Following his discharge from the Army, he worked for the Unemployment Office in Reading and for Aetna Insurance in the Casualty Department. He then started teaching German through FLES (Foreign Language Elementary School) in Reading, later moving to Indiana and teaching German at the Indiana Junior High, Indiana Senior High and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Gerry had a great love for learning, having participated in 301 Roa