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Fannon that it would not be feasible to do.
Mr. Moore said that when the bridge was being built, VDOT was faced with getting the road back open, as a lot of residents must use the road every day to get back and forth. At that time, he said, to negotiate with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (who holds the easement) and property owners did not seem the best thing to do. However, looking ahead, said Mr. Moore, that would be a good project.
VDOT is also looking at cutting down some of the trees along Route 729. John Bechtold, the property owner on whose land the walnut tree stood, is in favor of some of the trees being cut. “At least if they (drivers) go into my field they will have a chance,” he said.
Following Mary Beth’s funeral on Saturday, several of her friends cut down the walnut tree, which since the accident had been decorated with armloads of flowers and notes written on the trunk in memory of the girls.
Some family friends are now trying to establish a scholarship in memory of Mary Beth to be given to a Rappahannock High School senior for the purpose of continuing study in the field of- agriculture. Mrs. Thomas Estham, 675-3550 and Norma Jean Shaw, 869-5517 are organizing the effort.
The Rappahannock 4-H Livestock Club has set up a memorial fund in memory of Mary Beth. Anyone wishing to contribute should make checks payable to Mary Beth Williams Memorial Fund, Virginia Cooperative Extension-Rappahannock County, P.O. Box 119, Washington, Va. 22747.
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