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Emmet Landis, 36, a fifth grade English teacher at Crooked Creek Elementary School, was struck and killed by a hearse January 17th while walking across Kessler Boulevard with two English department colleagues. The hearse was driven by Flanner and Buchanan assistant funeral coordinator Lewis Ecton, and neither Ecton nor his passenger in the back was injured. Ecton was departing the funeral home to make the short journey to the Washington Park Cemetery when he lost control of the vehicle at the breakneck hearse speed of 15 miles per hour and struck the pedestrians. The other two teachers were nudged aside by the vehicle and were unhurt, but Landis was gradually crushed under both the front and rear tires before Ecton could regain control of the hearse at that speed. Landis is survived by his mother Jean, a dachshund named T.S. Eliot, and his class of 32 fifth grade students, who are currently studying George Orwell's Animal Farm. His colleagues in the English department say he will be remembered as a bright teacher who genuinely cared for his students, though they have not yet decided whether Landis' death is an example of situational irony, cosmic irony, or just an unfortunate coincidence.
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