Thursday, March 27, 1997
Watt Matthews and employee in stable condition
ALBANY - Famed rancher Watt Matthews and an employee both were
listed in stable condition Wednesday, six days after they were
injured in a one-vehicle rollover on Matthews' ranch.
Matthews, 98, is in Stephens Memorial Hospital in Breckenridge.
He suffered three broken ribs, plus cuts and bruises.
His attendant, Barbara Ledbetter, was moved out of the surgical
intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Lubbock and
into a private room.
Friends said she will not require surgery for a fracture in
her spine. She is being fitted for a back and neck brace that
will immobilize the spine, and is due to return home in a few
days.
Ledbetter was driving Matthews' Ford Explorer when it went
out of control on a bumpy ranch road.
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