Prom photo of Patricia Ladner and William Smith and family photo of Patricia and Cody Ladner (family photos)
GULF COAST -- The last of three Pass Christian teenagers involved in a fatal two-vehicle wreck just days prior to high school graduation is among young people who passed away this month.
Patricia Ladner died Sunday, May 25, at USA Medical Center in Mobile.
The 18-year-old was riding in a SUV driven by her boyfriend, William Smith, when a pickup struck their vehicle as Smith was leaving the driveway of a friend on Cunningham Road. Smith 19, and Ladner's brother, Cody, 16, who was in the back seat, died the day of the accident, May 19.
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JOSEPH SCHMIDT, 8, of New Orleans also died Memorial Day, May 26, while tubing with his brother on the Wolf River.
Authories said his father was pulling him and his older sibling on a tube that swung wide and hit a tree. The boy suffered blows to his head and neck, and his brother suffered minor injuries.
Joseph was pronounced dead at Garden Park Hospital in Gulfport, according to news reports.
Wolf River tubing accident kills 8-year-old Louisiana boy
