Girl, 14, Killed Crossing Highway

A 14-year old DeWitt Perry Junior High School student was struck and killed by a car Saturday night as she attempted to cross Interstate 35E near the Ramada Inn in Farmers Branch.
Dead on arrival at Parkland Hospital in Dallas was Vicky Ann Barganier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barganier of 1803 Glengery St in Carrollton. She attended the 8th grade at DeWitt Perry.
The driver of the car, Paul Garica, 30, of Garland told police he did not see the girl until his car had struck her.  She was wearing a dark blue coat and blue jeans at the time of the accident.
According to a report by Officer L. C. Tribble of the Farmers Branch police, the girl was with several other teenagers crossing the highway from west to east about 9:30 p.m. and she was struck in the right northbound lane by Garcia's car.
She was knocked 141 feet by the impact Garcia told police he was driving about 45 miles per our at the time of the accident.
The girl was taken to Parkland by the Farmers Branch Fire Department ambulance and was pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m.
With her at the time of the accident, police reported were Sonnie Snider of 1441 Valley Hi Circle in Farmers Branch; Cynthia Colvin: 1938 Village Glenn, Dallas; and Carl Dungan, 2730 Fyke Road. Apt 133, Farmers Branch. There was no information on where the teenagers were headed when the accident occurred.
No charges have been placed against Garcia.
The fatality is the second of the year in Farmers Branch and also the second in eight days. Both occurred within a five hundred feet of each other on Interstate 35E. On Feb. 16, Porter W. Henderson, of Denton, a professor of economics at North Texas State University, was killed within his van struck a front-loader tractor being used for construction work on the highway.
Surviving Vickey are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barganier; brothers, Wathan Lamar and Robert Lloyd, sister, Debra Lynn, grandfather, James Barganier of River Falls. Alabama, grandmothers, Mrs. Daisy Lee Barganier of Winter Haven, Fla. and Mrs. George Hanna of Pensacola, Fla.
Services were held at 11 a.m. today at Rhoton-Weiland-Merritt. Burial was at Hilltop Memorial Park in Carrollton

Carrollton Daily Chronicle - Tuesday, February 27, 1973
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

VICKY ANN BARGANIER
Feb 11, 1959 - Feb 24, 1973

Hilltop Memorial Park, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas