THOMAS R. MCELLIGOTT

McElligott Dies of Car Injuries
3rd Victim of Crash at Oshkosh Saturday
OSHKOSH—Death toll in a truck-car collision at the junction of Highway 41 and
a county trunk two miles outside the city Saturday night rose to three early
Thursday with the death in Mercy Hospital of Thomas R. McElligott, 25, son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McElligott, Waldo Boulevard, Manitowoc.
Killed outright in the crash was Dr. L. E. Lerdall, 28, Beaver Dam optometrist.
Thomas J. Simkins, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Simkins, of 912 North 12th
St., Manitowoc, died a few hours after the accident at Mercy Hospital.
McElligott never regained consciousness after the crash. He suffered severe
head and chest injuries.
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Funeral services for McElligott will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Pfeffer
Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and at 9 o’clock at the Holy Innocents Church, Manitowoc.
The Rev. E. A. Radey will officiate and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery,
Manitowoc.
Attended Marquette
McElligott was born in Minneapolis in 1972. The family moved to Manitowoc in 1940
where he attended Wilson Junior High School and was graduated from Lincoln High
School in 1945. Enlisting in the Navy, he served four years aboard the U.S.S.
McCaffrey in Far Eastern waters as a fire controlman.
Following his discharge from the service he attended Marquette University, Milwaukee,
for two years and took a position as a draftsman at the Aluminum Specialty Company
in Manitowoc. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the Young Republican Club.
Survivors are his parents of Manitowoc; four brothers, James of Capitaux, France,
William, a civilian employe with the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Robert, an air cadet at
Pensacola, Fla., and Patrick at home; and a sister, Mrs. Stephen Castellano of
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Friday, where the rosary will be
recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday by the Knights of Columbus.
Manitowoc Herald Times, April 30, 1953 P. 1
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[bur. on T.J. McElligott lot]