Newspaper clippings about the death of Harriet Wokasch and her daughter Delores Wokasch. 
2 Fairmont Women Die In Car-Truck Collision
MANKATO, Minn. (AP)—Two Fairmont, Minn., women, mother and daughter, were killed today in the grinding headon collision of their car and a heavily loaded truck. Killed were Delores A. Wokasch, 34, a Fairmont telephone operator, and her mother, Harriet, 53. Mrs. Floyd Wokasch.
The two had spent the night in St. Peter, Minn., and left for Fairmont early in the morning, with the daughter driving. Miss Wokasch, a telephone worker for 16 years, was due at her switchboard at 7 a.m. — about 1 1/2 hours after the crash occurred.
The women had driven to St. Peter Wednesday. Miss Wokasch’s birthday, and had decorated graves for Memorial Day.
They stayed overnight at the St. Peter home of Mrs. Wokasch’s sister, Mrs. Harold Hudson.
Their car, and a truck carrying 44,000 pounds of watermelons collided about 5-20 a.m. on Highway 60 about a half mile southwest of the Highway 169 intersection.
The truck driver, Robert F. Agard, 31, Haines City, Fla., escaped injury.
Coroner Wallace E. Mathews said Delores Wokasch was pinned in the wreckage. Police said the Wokasch car was hurled back 82 feet by the impact and landed in the ditch.
The truck trailer crashed in the ditch on one side of the road and the tractor section plunged into the ditch on the opposite side. The car was traveling southwest, apparently headed for Fairmont.
The deaths raised the Minnesota highway toll to 282, compared with 270 through this date a year ago.
1964 May 28, The Evening Tribune.
Two are killed near Mankato
MANKATO, “Minn. (AP) – Harriet Wokasch, 63, and Delores Wokasch, 34, of Fairmont Minn., were killed Thursday in a car-truck collision five mile; south of here on Highway 60.The truck, loaded with 44,000 pounds of watermelons, was driven by Robert Agard, 31, of Florida. He was not hurt.
1964 May 28 – Mason City Globe
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) – An Oklahoma truck driver was acquitted
Wednesday of an proper highway lane use charge growing out of a fatal accident near Mankato.A municipal court jury deliberated 30 minutes before bringing in an innocent verdict for Robert F. Agard, 31, Muskogee, Okla.
Agard drove a semitrailer truck that collided with a car last Friday. Mrs. Floyd Wokasch, 53, Fairmont, and her daughter, Delores, 34, were killed.
Agard testified he crossed the center line only after seeing the Wokasch car coming directly at him in his lane.
1964 June 05 – Winona Daily News – Driver cleared in Mankato Crash