"Published Monday, February 18, 2008
Funeral arrangements have been planned for one of four area teenagers killed in a single-vehicle accident near Middletown late Friday.
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The victims had ties to Lincoln Community High School or Springfield College in Illinois/Benedictine University.
Katelyn “Katie” A. McCarty, 19, of Taylorville was pronounced dead at 12:40 a.m. Saturday at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, her obituary said.
The State Journal-Register on Sunday also received partial obituaries for two boys who died in the accident — Ross B. Conrady, 18, of Elkhart, a senior at Lincoln Community High School, and Christopher J. McGlasson, 19, a 2006 graduate of LCHS.
Friends and community members have identified the fourth victim as Katie Carpentier, a Lincoln Community High sophomore.
McCarty, a 2007 graduate of Taylorville High School, was a freshman at SCI/Benedictine and worked as a nursing technician at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. She was Miss Teen Illinois American Queen 2005.
Her visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Taylorville, followed by a funeral service at the church at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Conrady was a member of LCHS’s FFA chapter and won many blue ribbons in livestock competitions at the Illinois State Fair over the years, according to newspaper archives.
High school classmates of McGlasson said he always had a smile on his face and loved to joke around. They said he hoped to own his own farm.
Funeral arrangements for Conrady and McGlasson are pending at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, the obituaries said.
The four teens were killed when the pickup they were in hit a tree and caught fire at the bottom of a curved stretch of road near where 1300th Street crosses Polecat Hill just east of Middletown.
Two other teenage boys survived.
LCHS graduates Zach Rickord and Clark Schoonover, also students at SCI/Benedictine, were taken to Memorial Medical Center. Rickord was listed in serious condition Sunday night while Schoonover was in fair condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A blog created to remember the three victims associated with LCHS asks students to wear yellow, pink and blue colors to school Tuesday in memory of Carpentier. It also features slideshows of Carpentier and the others involved in the crash.
Counselors and ministers will be at LCHS when classes resume Tuesday. "
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