RONALD J. VNUK
(1942 - 1961)
MANITOWOC BOY, 19, VICTIM OF SMASHUP
Ronald Vnuk, Former Lincoln Athlete, Dies
Robert Warrens, Passenger in Car, in Fair Condition
ROCKWOOD — A former Manitowoc Lincoln High School athlete was killed near here early Tuesday when the automobile he was driving failed to negotiate a slight curve.
The victim was Ronald J. Vnuk, 19, of 926 N. Ninth St., Manitowoc. Robert A. Warrens, 19, of 1225 S. 25th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the car, was confined to Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, with a fractured right should blade and collar bone, broken pelvis and a nerve injury with paralysis to the left arm. His condition originally was described as critical. A late morning report from his doctor indicated that Warrens was in ?fair? condition. His parents operate Warrens Restaurant on Washington Street in downtown Manitowoc.
Rolls Three Times
The accident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. a quarter mile south of this unincorporated village on Highway 141.
County traffic police said the southbound car went out of control on the left shoulder, slid across the highway through the west ditch, glanced off a power pole and rolled over three times in a hay field. Both driver and passenger were thrown from the 1955 model Oldsmobile, which was demolished.
Vnuk's death was attributed to severe head and crushing chest injuries. He died within minutes after the accident.
Investigation by Dr. Theodore Teitgen, county coroner, indicated that the youths had spent about an hour at the Rockwood Corner teenage bar prior to the accident. Their whereabouts earlier in the evening were not immediately known. Doctor Teitgen said there apparently would be no inquest unless subsequent investigation warrants such a hearing.
Clouds of Dust
William L. Taylor of 1034 Menasha Ave., Manitowoc, a truck driver for the Rockwell Lime Co., was first at the scene. Taylor was traveling north at the time and saw a cloud of dust raised by the car when it left the roadway, Doctor Teitgen said. Vnuk's death was the eighth traffic fatality reported in Manitowoc County so far in 1961. There were 17 road deaths at this point a year ago.
Funeral services will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Pfeffer Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and at 9 a.m. at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, the Rev. Anthony Steffel officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Ronald was born Sept 4, 1942, at Manitowoc, son of Marvin S. and Orlean Bartel Vnuk. He was graduated from Holy Innocents Parochial School and from Lincoln High School with the Class of 1960.
He was on both the baseball and basketball teams at Lincoln High School and also participated in cross country. He was well known as a baseball pitcher for Manitowoc City League. He was
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Smashup
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employed at Aluminum Specialty Co., Manitowoc.
List Survivors
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Richard, Thomas and James, and two sisters, Sandra and Sue Ann at home and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Jagodzinsky, of Manitowoc.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Wednesday where the Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 10, 1961 p. 1, 11
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(1942 - 1961)
MANITOWOC BOY, 19, VICTIM OF SMASHUP
Ronald Vnuk, Former Lincoln Athlete, Dies
Robert Warrens, Passenger in Car, in Fair Condition
ROCKWOOD — A former Manitowoc Lincoln High School athlete was killed near here early Tuesday when the automobile he was driving failed to negotiate a slight curve.
The victim was Ronald J. Vnuk, 19, of 926 N. Ninth St., Manitowoc. Robert A. Warrens, 19, of 1225 S. 25th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the car, was confined to Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, with a fractured right should blade and collar bone, broken pelvis and a nerve injury with paralysis to the left arm. His condition originally was described as critical. A late morning report from his doctor indicated that Warrens was in ?fair? condition. His parents operate Warrens Restaurant on Washington Street in downtown Manitowoc.
Rolls Three Times
The accident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. a quarter mile south of this unincorporated village on Highway 141.
County traffic police said the southbound car went out of control on the left shoulder, slid across the highway through the west ditch, glanced off a power pole and rolled over three times in a hay field. Both driver and passenger were thrown from the 1955 model Oldsmobile, which was demolished.
Vnuk's death was attributed to severe head and crushing chest injuries. He died within minutes after the accident.
Investigation by Dr. Theodore Teitgen, county coroner, indicated that the youths had spent about an hour at the Rockwood Corner teenage bar prior to the accident. Their whereabouts earlier in the evening were not immediately known. Doctor Teitgen said there apparently would be no inquest unless subsequent investigation warrants such a hearing.
Clouds of Dust
William L. Taylor of 1034 Menasha Ave., Manitowoc, a truck driver for the Rockwell Lime Co., was first at the scene. Taylor was traveling north at the time and saw a cloud of dust raised by the car when it left the roadway, Doctor Teitgen said. Vnuk's death was the eighth traffic fatality reported in Manitowoc County so far in 1961. There were 17 road deaths at this point a year ago.
Funeral services will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Pfeffer Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and at 9 a.m. at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, the Rev. Anthony Steffel officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Ronald was born Sept 4, 1942, at Manitowoc, son of Marvin S. and Orlean Bartel Vnuk. He was graduated from Holy Innocents Parochial School and from Lincoln High School with the Class of 1960.
He was on both the baseball and basketball teams at Lincoln High School and also participated in cross country. He was well known as a baseball pitcher for Manitowoc City League. He was
(Continued on Page T-3)
Smashup
(Continued From Page 1)
employed at Aluminum Specialty Co., Manitowoc.
List Survivors
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Richard, Thomas and James, and two sisters, Sandra and Sue Ann at home and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Jagodzinsky, of Manitowoc.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Wednesday where the Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 10, 1961 p. 1, 11
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RONALD J. VNUK
(1942 - 1961)
MANITOWOC BOY, 19, VICTIM OF SMASHUP
Ronald Vnuk, Former Lincoln Athlete, Dies
Robert Warrens, Passenger in Car, in Fair Condition
ROCKWOOD — A former Manitowoc Lincoln High School athlete was killed near here early Tuesday when the automobile he was driving failed to negotiate a slight curve.
The victim was Ronald J. Vnuk, 19, of 926 N. Ninth St., Manitowoc. Robert A. Warrens, 19, of 1225 S. 25th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the car, was confined to Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, with a fractured right should blade and collar bone, broken pelvis and a nerve injury with paralysis to the left arm. His condition originally was described as critical. A late morning report from his doctor indicated that Warrens was in ?fair? condition. His parents operate Warrens Restaurant on Washington Street in downtown Manitowoc.
Rolls Three Times
The accident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. a quarter mile south of this unincorporated village on Highway 141.
County traffic police said the southbound car went out of control on the left shoulder, slid across the highway through the west ditch, glanced off a power pole and rolled over three times in a hay field. Both driver and passenger were thrown from the 1955 model Oldsmobile, which was demolished.
Vnuk's death was attributed to severe head and crushing chest injuries. He died within minutes after the accident.
Investigation by Dr. Theodore Teitgen, county coroner, indicated that the youths had spent about an hour at the Rockwood Corner teenage bar prior to the accident. Their whereabouts earlier in the evening were not immediately known. Doctor Teitgen said there apparently would be no inquest unless subsequent investigation warrants such a hearing.
Clouds of Dust
William L. Taylor of 1034 Menasha Ave., Manitowoc, a truck driver for the Rockwell Lime Co., was first at the scene. Taylor was traveling north at the time and saw a cloud of dust raised by the car when it left the roadway, Doctor Teitgen said. Vnuk's death was the eighth traffic fatality reported in Manitowoc County so far in 1961. There were 17 road deaths at this point a year ago.
Funeral services will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Pfeffer Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and at 9 a.m. at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, the Rev. Anthony Steffel officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Ronald was born Sept 4, 1942, at Manitowoc, son of Marvin S. and Orlean Bartel Vnuk. He was graduated from Holy Innocents Parochial School and from Lincoln High School with the Class of 1960.
He was on both the baseball and basketball teams at Lincoln High School and also participated in cross country. He was well known as a baseball pitcher for Manitowoc City League. He was
(Continued on Page T-3)
Smashup
(Continued From Page 1)
employed at Aluminum Specialty Co., Manitowoc.
List Survivors
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Richard, Thomas and James, and two sisters, Sandra and Sue Ann at home and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Jagodzinsky, of Manitowoc.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Wednesday where the Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 10, 1961 p. 1, 11
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(1942 - 1961)
MANITOWOC BOY, 19, VICTIM OF SMASHUP
Ronald Vnuk, Former Lincoln Athlete, Dies
Robert Warrens, Passenger in Car, in Fair Condition
ROCKWOOD — A former Manitowoc Lincoln High School athlete was killed near here early Tuesday when the automobile he was driving failed to negotiate a slight curve.
The victim was Ronald J. Vnuk, 19, of 926 N. Ninth St., Manitowoc. Robert A. Warrens, 19, of 1225 S. 25th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the car, was confined to Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, with a fractured right should blade and collar bone, broken pelvis and a nerve injury with paralysis to the left arm. His condition originally was described as critical. A late morning report from his doctor indicated that Warrens was in ?fair? condition. His parents operate Warrens Restaurant on Washington Street in downtown Manitowoc.
Rolls Three Times
The accident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. a quarter mile south of this unincorporated village on Highway 141.
County traffic police said the southbound car went out of control on the left shoulder, slid across the highway through the west ditch, glanced off a power pole and rolled over three times in a hay field. Both driver and passenger were thrown from the 1955 model Oldsmobile, which was demolished.
Vnuk's death was attributed to severe head and crushing chest injuries. He died within minutes after the accident.
Investigation by Dr. Theodore Teitgen, county coroner, indicated that the youths had spent about an hour at the Rockwood Corner teenage bar prior to the accident. Their whereabouts earlier in the evening were not immediately known. Doctor Teitgen said there apparently would be no inquest unless subsequent investigation warrants such a hearing.
Clouds of Dust
William L. Taylor of 1034 Menasha Ave., Manitowoc, a truck driver for the Rockwell Lime Co., was first at the scene. Taylor was traveling north at the time and saw a cloud of dust raised by the car when it left the roadway, Doctor Teitgen said. Vnuk's death was the eighth traffic fatality reported in Manitowoc County so far in 1961. There were 17 road deaths at this point a year ago.
Funeral services will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Pfeffer Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and at 9 a.m. at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, the Rev. Anthony Steffel officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Ronald was born Sept 4, 1942, at Manitowoc, son of Marvin S. and Orlean Bartel Vnuk. He was graduated from Holy Innocents Parochial School and from Lincoln High School with the Class of 1960.
He was on both the baseball and basketball teams at Lincoln High School and also participated in cross country. He was well known as a baseball pitcher for Manitowoc City League. He was
(Continued on Page T-3)
Smashup
(Continued From Page 1)
employed at Aluminum Specialty Co., Manitowoc.
List Survivors
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Richard, Thomas and James, and two sisters, Sandra and Sue Ann at home and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Jagodzinsky, of Manitowoc.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Wednesday where the Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 10, 1961 p. 1, 11
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