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- Linn County crash kills teen.
A 19-year-old Browning man was killed in Linn County shortly after midnight last night when the car he was driving overturned, pinning him in the vehicle.
Pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner Wesley Rhodes was Clinton Dee Britton.
The State Highway Patrol said Britton was traveling east on Route O in Browning at the Linn-Sullivan county line when his 1969 Dodge swerved off the north side of the road.
The vehicle came back across the road, hit a concrete culvert, overturned in a ditch on the south side of the road, pinning Britton in the vehicle. The car was demolished.
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Clinton D. Britton was born April 25, 1960, the son of Nelson and Marjorie Woodside Britton. He attended school at the Linn County R-1 school in Browning.
Funeral service will at at 2 o'clock Monday at the Browning Baptist Church with the Rev Clarence Barker officiating. Burial will be in the Purdin cemetery under the direction of the Wade Funeral Home in Browning.
Survivors include his parents of the home, a twin brother, Charles, Browning; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lenna Woodside, Browning; and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Britton, Browning.
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune. 24 Nov 1979. Page 1.
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