The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Tuesday, November 24, 1959
Fred Leiter
Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home
here for Fred LEITER, 77, 715 Pontiac street, who died in Woodlawn hospital at 6:30 p.m.
Monday not long after his admission there.
The Rev. Ray MILLS will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Leiter had been in failing health but had not been considered seriously ill. He
suffered from a heart ailment.
He was born in Rochester on Feb. 28, 1882, the son of William J. and Eliza A.
HICKMAN LEITER. He operated the Erie elevator in this city until it was sold to the Fulton
County Farm Bureau Co-op.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss Dalla LEITER, Rochester, and Mrs. Jennie L.
GREENSTREET, Lewisville, Ind.; one brother, Charles [LEITER], Oakland, Cal., and five nieces
and nephews.
As a young man, Mr. Leiter was a regular outfielder and leading hitter of the Rochester
Red Fellows baseball team, which played the top independent teams of the area around the turn of
the century. He also was an expert 18.2 balkline billiard player and competed in many state
tournaments.
Wednesday, November 25, 1959
Don Music
A 29-year-old Rochester man was killed instantly Tuesday night when his car smashed
broadside into a tree near the Nyona Lake bridge. Two passengers--one a four-year-old boy--were
injured and taken to Woodlawn hospital.
Dead is Don MUSIC, 104 East Sixth street, who suffered a crushed skull and a broken
ankle. In “fair” condition at the hospital are Mrs. Paul (Rosanna) EYTCHESON, 21, 128 East
Fourth street, with six fractured ribs and her son, Gary Lee [EYTCHESON], with bumps and
bruises.
The accident happened at 9:16 o’clock Tuesday just after Music, driving a 1951
Chevrolet east on a county road, had crossed the Nyona Lake bridge. The road curves to the right
slightly after the bridge. Music turned his car to the right and lost control. The car spun to the
right and hit the tree--on the right side of the road--broadside on the driver’s side.
Music was pinned in the wreckage. Mrs. Eytcheson, sitting in the right front sear, was
thrown through the windshield and landed on the ground near the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
WELLS, R.R. 1, Macy. The boy in the back seat was knocked against the inside top of the car.
The Wellses heard the crash and rushed to the scene. They carried the boy and helped
Mrs. Eytcheson to their home, then called the sheriff’s office and state police. Dr. Howard
ROWE, county coroner, also investigated.
It took officers considerable time to free Music from the car, since most of its left side
was caved in. A wrecker was used to pull the car apart.
The sheriff’s office said the car was taaveling at a high rate of speed when it crossed the
bridge and that Music lost control of it when he tried to negotiate the curve in the road. Officers
said the bridge floor was damp, but apparently was not icy or snowy.
Mrs. Eytcheson told the sheriff’s office that Music had been drinking shortly before the
crash. The three apparently were on their way to Rochester after having been in Nyona Lake