That's how Tillie Tooter maintained the will to live while trapped in her car for 78 steamy August hours. That's what people saw after she was rescued from the mangroves, speaking from a hospital bed, ...
It was a sweltering August night at the turn of the century when something strange happened in Pond Apple Slough. An 83-year-old woman took a dive off Interstate-595. Tillie Tooter insisted on driving ...
Tillie Tooter, who survived 78 steamy August hours trapped in her car after plunging off an Interstate 595 ramp, died at 98 on Saturday. Her grandson, Eric Simms of West Freehold, N.J., confirmed her ...