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The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

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maternal grandparents, who reside in New York.<br />

Winamac, Feb. 16. -- Two car-train crashes at the Beardstown crossing of the C. and O. railroad on<br />

state road 29 shortly after midnight Sunday left two youths dead and two young women and another youth<br />

injured.<br />

<strong>The</strong> dead are Everett MORTON, 23, Rensselaer, who died at 9:40 o’clock Monday mo rning, eight<br />

hours after the crash, at Carneal hospital, and John MUNSON, 28, Winamac, filling station operator, killed<br />

instantly.<br />

<strong>The</strong> injured are Miss Edith BURNS, 21, Winamac, fractured humerus, now at St. Joseph’s hospital,<br />

Logansport; Miss Irene POLEN, 20, Winamac, taken to the home of her mother, Mrs. Ted TULEY, here,<br />

and Burton HENRY, 22, Rensselaer, cut and bruised.<br />

Morton and Miss Polen, with Henry, in the rumble seat of their car drove into the tender of the westbound<br />

train at 12:32. As trainmen were extricating the victims, headed for Winamac, and Dr. H. J.<br />

HALLECK, called by Station Agents MOORE and Fred LONG, was treating them here, the Munson car<br />

struck the train in the same manner.<br />

Munson was instantly killed and the car a total wreck. Miss Burns was attended by Dr. Halleck, who<br />

was still there, and was taken at once to St. Joseph’s hospital in the Fry and Lange ambulance. Munson was<br />

brought to the Fry and Lange funeral home in the Kennedy ambulance.<br />

Morton’s body was removed to his home in Rensselaer Monday morning.<br />

Funeral services for John MUNSON will be held at the M.E. church at 9:30 Wednesday morning with<br />

Rev. C. C. JORDAN officiating, and the body will be taken to Pontiac, Ill., for burial.<br />

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Elsie MUNSON, two brothers, Harold [MUNSON] of LaCrosse<br />

and Richard [MUNSON] at home, and four sisters, Mrs. Vera AUSTIN of Chicago, and the Misses Ethel<br />

[MUNSON], Jane [MUNSON] and Rachel [MUNSON] at home.<br />

Fern POPEJOY, aged nine years, of Kewanna, Ind., passed away Monday evening, 8 o’clock at<br />

Woodlawn hospital, this city. Death resulted from complications which came in the wake of an appendix<br />

operation which was performed several days ago.<br />

Fern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin POPEJOY was born in Kewanna on March 13th, 1928, and<br />

had resided in that community all of her life. <strong>The</strong> little girl is survived by her mother, Mrs. Bert<br />

BERRIMAN, two sisters, Racheal [POPEJOY], of Fairbury, Ill.; Lois [POPEJOY], at home, and a brother,<br />

Phillip [POPEJOY], at home. Her father preceded in death several years ago.<br />

Funeral services will be conducted at the Berriman home Thursday afternoon with Rev. B. M.<br />

FRANKLIN in charge. Interment will be made in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery.<br />

Plymouth, Ind., Feb. 16, (UP) -- Roy HOUSER, 43, well known veterinarian, residing near Bourbon,<br />

committed suicide early today. Houser cut the telephone line and broke the electric meter before<br />

swallowing an overdose of morphine. After taking the deadly dose, he summoned his wife. He passed away<br />

a few moments later. He is survived by his widow and four children all between the ages of 12 and 20<br />

years.<br />

Funeral services for Lee Roscoe SULLIVAN, who died at his home in Richland township Monday will<br />

be held from the STRECKER residence in Delong at 2 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. M. W. CRIDER of<br />

Leiters Ford in charge. Burial will be made in the cemetery at Leiters

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