Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-22
From Same Town


from the rutty dirt road.
From Same Town
The two families - the
VenableS and the Fellers - are
both from Greeneville. Tenn.
They moved into Laurel about
seven years ago, but met one an
other there for the first time.
Two years ago, the Fellers tried
Florida for a while but returned
to Maryland last year.
1t was ON Tuesday, May 30,
they moved into the home on the
boulevard from larger home
in Cottage City.
It was on this same Tuesday
that something of a wise began
to close on these people; a wise
that closed for no particular
reason, squeezing them for all
their worth and closing, finally
with the CALLING prospect of
raising money to bury their two
daughters.
Bonnie Faye Myers. 3. niece
of Mary Elizabeth, reached up
that day in her home in Laurel
and turned a pot Of scalding
water over her face about the
time the Fellers were settling in
their new home.
According to the family, the
two girls had planned to visit
the baby the night of June l at
Prince Georges General Hospital.
They never made it.
The other day, at the North
Laurel home, Bonnie Faye was
asleep on the sofa, her left arm
caked with scabS. Mark Venable,
round, little man with big sad
eyes, sat across the room trying
to quiet his 6-month-old son. His
three daughters. ages IA. IL and
10. wandered in and out. Mrs.
Erwin Fellers was there along
with her daughter, Mrs. Mildred
Myers, the mother of Bonnie
Faye. Since the two girls van
ished, the Fellers have spent
most of their time at the Venable
home.
Can Cry No More
Mrs. Venable, a tall, dark
haired woman. was speaking.
I've told everything / can tell
You couldn't get nobody inter-
ested when l knew something
had happened to those girls. The
police laughed at me and told me
they'd come back married.
called the newspapers and the
radio and the television. Nobody
was interested. Now everybody
wants to know something.
II can't cry any more. just
ache inside.
you go into town and ask
anybody about my girl" she con-
tinued after a period of silence
they'll tell you she was a good
girl
"Why she hardly ever went
out. And when she did shed
bring the boy around here ano
he'd SIT right here in this house
where Mark and I could see
him.
MY girl was a good girl. She
always told me where she had
been. She used to bring the boys
by to meet me. She never went
out with anybody she didn't
bring around to meet me. She
wouldn't have got in that Cal
unless she knowed who was in
It,"
The two mothers talked about
how the girls would come home
at night and describe the boys
they had danced with.
Danced Together
And they gestured to the rug
less floor and said the two girls
- fast friends from the first
time they had met used to
dance in front OF the 21-inch
television with one another
Sometimes. it was said. they'c
stop and pull one Of their moth
ers UP and get them to dance
A little later, standing in the
rain outside, Mark VenablI
seemed to be trying to under
stand why. after he had worked
hard every day. this thing haC
to happen to him. He haC
worked hard operating a Gran,
in Riverdale and at nights. {
few years. back. he had bull
the house his family lived IL
largely by himself. He looked a
The ground and softly cried. X