Edwin Barboza 18, Loses Life When Rowboat is Overturned on Pond The second Falmouth drowning accident in less' than A week occurred Tuesday afternoon when Edwin- C. Barboza, 18, son of—Mrs and Mrs. Anthony Barboza, drowned in Spectacle Pond, Teaticket, after a rowboat capsized. Charles A. White, employed in the town survey office, recovered the body from about 12 feet of water a half-hour after the accident. A requiem mass was celebrated this morning at 8 A. M. at St. Anthony's Church, East Falmouth. Burial was at St. Anthony's cemetery. ' . The youthful Teaticket victim was rowing in a flat-bottom boat with friends. As they neared the shore a young friend lost his balance when he made a too-strenuous lunge with his oar and fell in the water. The sudden movement caused the boat to overturn, throwing in his companions,also.
Edwin Barboza 18, Loses Life When Rowboat is Overturned on Pond The second Falmouth drowning accident in less' than A week occurred Tuesday afternoon when Edwin- C. Barboza, 18, son of—Mrs and Mrs. Anthony Barboza, drowned in Spectacle Pond, Teaticket, after a rowboat capsized. Charles A. White, employed in the town survey office, recovered the body from about 12 feet of water a half-hour after the accident. A requiem mass was celebrated this morning at 8 A. M. at St. Anthony's Church, East Falmouth. Burial was at St. Anthony's cemetery. ' . The youthful Teaticket victim was rowing in a flat-bottom boat with friends. As they neared the shore a young friend lost his balance when he made a too-strenuous lunge with his oar and fell in the water. The sudden movement caused the boat to overturn, throwing in his companions,also.
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