Woman wrongly declared dead as a child in 1930 dies at 94

DELANCO, N.J. >> A New Jersey woman who was hit by a car and was wrongly declared dead as a child in 1930 has died at age 94.

A worker at Sweeney Funeral Home in Riverside says Margaret Gatti died Saturday at a Wilmington, Delaware, assisted-living facility.

Gatti’s daughter tells Philly.com (http://bit. ly/2bAQLnt ) Gatti was the victim of a hit-and-run in Delanco when she was 9 years old. Gatti had a fractured skull, a crushed pelvis and a broken leg.

Daughter Mary Girifalco says Gatti was pronounced dead by a physician and was taken to a morgue, where someone noticed the sheet over her face moving up and down with her breath.