The Rochester Sentinel 1970 - Fulton County Public Library

Clinton S. Onks
A young airman who was to be married soon to a Peru girl became Fulton county’s first
drowning victim since 1968 Friday.
Clinton Steven ONKS, 21, a member of the Civil Engineer Squadron at Grissom Air
Force Base, drowned at Maloney’s Beach, Nyona Lake, at 3:24 p.m. His body was recovered at
4:07 p.m. by two state police divers, Sgt. Jack RICH and Trooper James HOOVER.
The body was taken to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home, then to St. Joseph hospital
in Kokomo for an autopsy.
Miss Sharon IRWIN of Peru, Onks’ fiance, told Dr. F Richard WALTON, Fulton county
coroner, that the young man could not swim well. He had been using an inner tube in the water
and had taken it to a raft. He dived off the raft toward the inner tube, but missed it on the dive and
apparently panicked.
Witnesses told State Trooper Joe FOSTER of Rochester that Onks previously had been
going underwater, surfacing and yelling “help, help” as a joke.
An unidentified person noticed that Onks did not surface after the dive toward the inner
tube and notified Mrs. Lucille MALONEY, owner of the beach resort. She called state police.
Onks was the sixth person to die accidentally in Fulton county this year. The other five
persons were traffic victims.
The last previous drowning in Fulton county was Dec. 21, 1968 when a 10-year-old girl
drowned in Millark pond six miles southeast of Rochester.
The last previous drowning at Nyona Lake was June 1, 1965 when a fisherman drowned
after he fell out of his boat.
Ted Sadler
Ted SADLER, 79, prominent Grass Creek farmer and livestock dealer, died at 5:30 a.m.
today in Pulaski County Memorial hospital at Winamac. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at
the Harrison Garden Chapel at Kewanna. Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in
Kewanna after 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Monday, June 22, 1970
Ted Sadler
Rites were conducted this afternoon at the Harrison Garden Chapel in Kewanna for Ted
SADLER, 79, Grass Creek farmer and livestock dealer, who died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday in Pulaski
County Memorial hospital at Winamac.
Born Dec. 17, 1890 near Grass Creek, Mr. Sadler was the son of Cresswell and Mary
SADLER. He was married in 1923 to Detta HICKEY, who died in 1968. He was a member of
the Episcopal curch and Logansport Eagles No. 323.
Surviving are a son, Nelson [SADLER], R.R. 2, Kewanna; a sister, Mrs. Josephine
MANGOLD, St. Petersburg, Fla.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Two
brothers and a sister preceded in death.
The Rev. John REDDIX officiated at the last rits and burial was in the Kewanna I.O.O.F.
cemetery.
The family requests that donations be made in Mrs. Sadler’s memory to the Cancer Fund.