The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Surviving, besides the wife, are one daughter, Mrs. Geraldine LANZ, Elkhart; two sons,
Robert and Boyd [STOUT], both of Akron; four grandchildren; his father and stepmother; three
sisters, Mrs. Odus CRAIG, Akron; Mrs. E. J. STEPHENS, Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. L. W. BINNA,
Modesto, Cal., and one brother, William [STOUT], Grand Ledge, Mich.
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Akron Methodist church with the
Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH, assisted by the Rev. Maurice KESSLER, officiating. Burial will be in
the Akron cemetery. Friends may call at the Tom Haupert funeral home in Akron and from 9:30
to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Wednesday, September 9, 1959
Ray Linn
Ray LINN, 64, Mentone, died of a heart attack in a Mentone grocery store at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday. He had lived in the Mentone community his entire life.
Born June 11, 1895, he was the son of John and Arena HEMINGER LINN. On Oct. 6,
1913, he was married to Hazel HUDSON, who survives.
Mr. Linn was an employee of the Elcar Coach company in Bourbon.
Surviving besides the widow are two sisters, Mrs. Gerald KLINKER, Akron, and Mrs.
Howard HUDSON, Etna Green; eleven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Johns funeral home at Mentone with the Rev.
Claude DODSON officiating. Burial will be in the Mentone cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
Nell Louise Burns
Nineteen-month-old Nell Louise BURNS was killed instantly Tuesday night when she
was thrown from a westbound car driven by her father, Ivan Roy BURNS, Jr., 36, R.R. 1, Akron,
after the car had gone out of control on Ind. 14 near the Erie railroad tracks 1 1/2 miles west of
Akron.
Both the father and the mother, Muriel [BURNS], 28, were injured critically and were
taken to Woodlawn hospital. They were thrown from the auto, also.
State police and the sheriff’s office said the tragedy happened about 9:30 p.m. when
Burns lost control of the car as he entered a sharp curve that leads to the railroad tracks.
The 1945 Plymouth four-door sedan skidded 100 feet and across the tracks went off the
highway on the south side, skidded back onto the road and turned over once in the middle of the
highway. The baby was thrown from the vehicle at this point.
The car skidded some more and turned over again, on the north side of the road, throwing
out both parents, then hit a Northern Indiana Public Service company utility pole broadside.
The infant was killed instantly by a skull fracture suffered when she landed on her head
on the highway, state police said.
The father suffered a possible skull fracture; a fractured clavical and bruises and
abrasions over his entire body.
The mother also received a possible skull fracture, a fractured jaw, chest injuries and
lacerations and abrasions on her head and legs.
State police estimated the speed of the car at 55-60 miles an hour, officers said.
The Burnses apparently were on their way to their home, which is only a short distance
west of the accident scene. Officers were advised of the crash by Mrs. Glen MERLEY, who lives
nearby.
Investigation disclosed that a westbound Erie train passed the crossing about five minutes