WOMAN KILLED IN CAR-BUS CRASH
JOHANNA NASH
VICTIM; NINE
OTHERS INJURED
FOUR PORT EDWARDS
TEACHERS AMONG INJURED;
WORST ACCIDENT
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
THIS YEAR.
A Nekoosa woman was killed,
two small children were
seriously injured, and seven
other people — four of them
Port Edwards school teachers
— sustained varied fractures,
lacerations and shock in a
head-on crash between an aux-
iliary "400" bus and a car on
Highway 13 near Big Flats,
Adams county, about 5:40 p.
m. Friday.
Miss Johanna Nash, 33, Ne-
koosa stenographer, sustained
a skull fracture and broken neck,
dying almost at once...
She had been a resident of Ne-
koosa all her life. She was born at
Nekoosa May 31, 1904, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John P.
Nash. She was graduated from Sac-
red Heart parochial school and from
Alexander high school in 1922. She
was an office employe of the Grode-
Nash Paper company at Nekoosa,
and had made her home with her
sisters Margaret and Mildred Nash,
who survive with another sister,
Mrs. Carl F. Simon, Wisconsin Rap-
ids.
--excerpt from Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; March 5, 1938
The auxiliary bus was used to take passengers to the North Western's '400' train in Adams when the regular bus was full.
1910 Census:
Home in 1910: Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
John P Nash 49 Head
Johanna Nash 44 Wife
Margaret Nash 23 Daughter
Elizabeth Nash 17 Daughter
Mildred Nash 13 Daughter
Johanna Nash 5 Daughter
JOHANNA NASH
VICTIM; NINE
OTHERS INJURED
FOUR PORT EDWARDS
TEACHERS AMONG INJURED;
WORST ACCIDENT
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
THIS YEAR.
A Nekoosa woman was killed,
two small children were
seriously injured, and seven
other people — four of them
Port Edwards school teachers
— sustained varied fractures,
lacerations and shock in a
head-on crash between an aux-
iliary "400" bus and a car on
Highway 13 near Big Flats,
Adams county, about 5:40 p.
m. Friday.
Miss Johanna Nash, 33, Ne-
koosa stenographer, sustained
a skull fracture and broken neck,
dying almost at once...
She had been a resident of Ne-
koosa all her life. She was born at
Nekoosa May 31, 1904, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John P.
Nash. She was graduated from Sac-
red Heart parochial school and from
Alexander high school in 1922. She
was an office employe of the Grode-
Nash Paper company at Nekoosa,
and had made her home with her
sisters Margaret and Mildred Nash,
who survive with another sister,
Mrs. Carl F. Simon, Wisconsin Rap-
ids.
--excerpt from Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; March 5, 1938
The auxiliary bus was used to take passengers to the North Western's '400' train in Adams when the regular bus was full.
1910 Census:
Home in 1910: Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
John P Nash 49 Head
Johanna Nash 44 Wife
Margaret Nash 23 Daughter
Elizabeth Nash 17 Daughter
Mildred Nash 13 Daughter
Johanna Nash 5 Daughter
WOMAN KILLED IN CAR-BUS CRASH
JOHANNA NASH
VICTIM; NINE
OTHERS INJURED
FOUR PORT EDWARDS
TEACHERS AMONG INJURED;
WORST ACCIDENT
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
THIS YEAR.
A Nekoosa woman was killed,
two small children were
seriously injured, and seven
other people — four of them
Port Edwards school teachers
— sustained varied fractures,
lacerations and shock in a
head-on crash between an aux-
iliary "400" bus and a car on
Highway 13 near Big Flats,
Adams county, about 5:40 p.
m. Friday.
Miss Johanna Nash, 33, Ne-
koosa stenographer, sustained
a skull fracture and broken neck,
dying almost at once...
She had been a resident of Ne-
koosa all her life. She was born at
Nekoosa May 31, 1904, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John P.
Nash. She was graduated from Sac-
red Heart parochial school and from
Alexander high school in 1922. She
was an office employe of the Grode-
Nash Paper company at Nekoosa,
and had made her home with her
sisters Margaret and Mildred Nash,
who survive with another sister,
Mrs. Carl F. Simon, Wisconsin Rap-
ids.
--excerpt from Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; March 5, 1938
The auxiliary bus was used to take passengers to the North Western's '400' train in Adams when the regular bus was full.
1910 Census:
Home in 1910: Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
John P Nash 49 Head
Johanna Nash 44 Wife
Margaret Nash 23 Daughter
Elizabeth Nash 17 Daughter
Mildred Nash 13 Daughter
Johanna Nash 5 Daughter
JOHANNA NASH
VICTIM; NINE
OTHERS INJURED
FOUR PORT EDWARDS
TEACHERS AMONG INJURED;
WORST ACCIDENT
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
THIS YEAR.
A Nekoosa woman was killed,
two small children were
seriously injured, and seven
other people — four of them
Port Edwards school teachers
— sustained varied fractures,
lacerations and shock in a
head-on crash between an aux-
iliary "400" bus and a car on
Highway 13 near Big Flats,
Adams county, about 5:40 p.
m. Friday.
Miss Johanna Nash, 33, Ne-
koosa stenographer, sustained
a skull fracture and broken neck,
dying almost at once...
She had been a resident of Ne-
koosa all her life. She was born at
Nekoosa May 31, 1904, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John P.
Nash. She was graduated from Sac-
red Heart parochial school and from
Alexander high school in 1922. She
was an office employe of the Grode-
Nash Paper company at Nekoosa,
and had made her home with her
sisters Margaret and Mildred Nash,
who survive with another sister,
Mrs. Carl F. Simon, Wisconsin Rap-
ids.
--excerpt from Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune; March 5, 1938
The auxiliary bus was used to take passengers to the North Western's '400' train in Adams when the regular bus was full.
1910 Census:
Home in 1910: Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
John P Nash 49 Head
Johanna Nash 44 Wife
Margaret Nash 23 Daughter
Elizabeth Nash 17 Daughter
Mildred Nash 13 Daughter
Johanna Nash 5 Daughter
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