GLADYS L. HETTMANN
(1925 - 1946)
Two Killed, One Hurt, Auto and Truck Collided
Vehicles Meet Head On Near Rapids Village
Accident Occurred Early Sunday; Car Driver Hospitalized
A 20-year-old Manitowoc Rapids girl and a 38-year-old Sheboygan truck driver were killed in the crash of a small coupe and a truck on highway 119, just north of the village of Rapids at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The dead:
Gladys Hettmann, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettman of Manitowoc Rapids.
Henry Petersohn Jr., 38, of 2033 New Jersey avenue, Sheboygan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2, Manitowoc.
The injured:
George Nicholson, 23, of Manitowoc Rapids, driver of the car in which Miss Hettmann was a passenger, brain concussion and broken left arm.
According to Coroner Theodore Teitgen and Sheriff Arthur Truttscheel, who were called to the accident, Nicholson and Miss Hettmann were returning to Manitowoc Rapids from Club 10, at Branch, where they had stopped after attending a theater in this city earlier in the evening. The car was southbound on highway 119. Petersohn, oil burner service man for the Wingrove Oil company of Sheboygan, and driving a small pickup truck, was enroute to visit his parents near Francis Creek and was northbound.
County Traffic Officers Henry Pleuss and William Falvey, who also answered the accident call, said the couple, which Nicholson had borrowed from Edmund Kugler, Rapids tavern operator, by whom Miss Hettmann was employed, had swerved to the east side of the highway just before the impact. Track marks indicated that Petersohn had swung to the right side of the highway. The two vehicles met almost head-on.
Plan Inquest
Petersohn, who sustained a broken neck, fractured skull and broken right leg, when he was pitched forward into the windshield, was dead before he could be taken from the truck cab. Miss Hettmann, who sustained a fractured skull, and broken neck, was placed in an ambulance and brought to the Holy Family hospital in this city. She was pronounced dead on entrance.
Nicholson, suffering from a slight concussion and a broken arm, was also brought to the hospital.
Coroner Teitgen announced there will probably be an inquest.
The two fatalities Sunday brought the number of highway deaths in Manitowoc county so far this year to four.
According to the sheriff, it was a couple of hours after the accident before the identity of the Sheboygan truck driver was established. All that was found on his person was a small amount of change in his pocket and a slip of paper bearing the name "Konrad Testwuide, 1719 15th street, Sheboygan." A telephone call to the sheriff there sent that officer to this address. He found that party in bed.
Further inquiry at Sheboygan when the name of the truck driver's employer, the Wingrove Oil company, South Commerce and Illinois street, Sheboygan, was learned, brought the information
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that the dead driver was Petersohn.
Crash at the Top of Hill
Authorities learned that Nicholson and Miss Hettmann left Rapids to attend a movie in Manitowoc shortly before 9 o'clock Saturday night. Parents of Henry Petersohn said their son had advised them earlier in the week that he would visit them Saturday night, but they figured he had abandoned this visit when he did not reach the home near Francis Creek by midnight.
Nicholson, who was in the armed services in the war, has been employed at the ship yards in this city since he was discharged.
The scene of the crash is at the top of a hill on highway 119, north of the village of Rapid, just before the highway joins highways 10 and 141, at the west end of Waldo boulevard.
Henry Petersohn, father of four children, was born in Siberia in 1907 and when a boy accompanied his parents to this county, in 1912. When a young man he moved to Sheboygan and was employed for 16 years by the Badger State tannery in that city. Last October he became a service man for the Wingrove Oil company in Sheboygan.
In 1927 he married Miss Irene Matheys. She survives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2 Manitowoc two daughters, Delores, 16, and Gloria Ann, 12, of Sheboygan; two sons, Eugene, with the armed forces at Scott Field, Ill., and Ronald, 8, of Sheboygan; six brothers, Alex of Manitowoc Rapids, Andrew, Leonard, Emil and George of route 2, Manitowoc, Louis with the armed forces in Japan; and three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Eslinger of Sheboygan, Mrs. William Behnke and Mrs. Archie Reynolds of Manitowoc.
Funerals Wednesday
The body will lie in state at the Pfeffer funeral home until Tuesday morning, when it will be moved to the Steffen funeral home in Sheboygan. Services will be held there at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Wildwood cemetery in this city.
Miss Hettmann, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettmann of Manitowoc Rapids, attended the St. Paul's Catholic church in this city and had recently been employed at the Kugler store and tavern in Rapids. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Adeline, 23, of Eagle Rock, Calif., and Celia, 13, at home; and a brother Clarence, 15, at home.
Funeral services for Miss Hettmann will be held at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Shimek and Schwartz funeral home and at 9 o'clock at the St. Paul's Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight at the funeral home.
The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis., May 20, 1946 pp 1-2
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(1925 - 1946)
Two Killed, One Hurt, Auto and Truck Collided
Vehicles Meet Head On Near Rapids Village
Accident Occurred Early Sunday; Car Driver Hospitalized
A 20-year-old Manitowoc Rapids girl and a 38-year-old Sheboygan truck driver were killed in the crash of a small coupe and a truck on highway 119, just north of the village of Rapids at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The dead:
Gladys Hettmann, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettman of Manitowoc Rapids.
Henry Petersohn Jr., 38, of 2033 New Jersey avenue, Sheboygan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2, Manitowoc.
The injured:
George Nicholson, 23, of Manitowoc Rapids, driver of the car in which Miss Hettmann was a passenger, brain concussion and broken left arm.
According to Coroner Theodore Teitgen and Sheriff Arthur Truttscheel, who were called to the accident, Nicholson and Miss Hettmann were returning to Manitowoc Rapids from Club 10, at Branch, where they had stopped after attending a theater in this city earlier in the evening. The car was southbound on highway 119. Petersohn, oil burner service man for the Wingrove Oil company of Sheboygan, and driving a small pickup truck, was enroute to visit his parents near Francis Creek and was northbound.
County Traffic Officers Henry Pleuss and William Falvey, who also answered the accident call, said the couple, which Nicholson had borrowed from Edmund Kugler, Rapids tavern operator, by whom Miss Hettmann was employed, had swerved to the east side of the highway just before the impact. Track marks indicated that Petersohn had swung to the right side of the highway. The two vehicles met almost head-on.
Plan Inquest
Petersohn, who sustained a broken neck, fractured skull and broken right leg, when he was pitched forward into the windshield, was dead before he could be taken from the truck cab. Miss Hettmann, who sustained a fractured skull, and broken neck, was placed in an ambulance and brought to the Holy Family hospital in this city. She was pronounced dead on entrance.
Nicholson, suffering from a slight concussion and a broken arm, was also brought to the hospital.
Coroner Teitgen announced there will probably be an inquest.
The two fatalities Sunday brought the number of highway deaths in Manitowoc county so far this year to four.
According to the sheriff, it was a couple of hours after the accident before the identity of the Sheboygan truck driver was established. All that was found on his person was a small amount of change in his pocket and a slip of paper bearing the name "Konrad Testwuide, 1719 15th street, Sheboygan." A telephone call to the sheriff there sent that officer to this address. He found that party in bed.
Further inquiry at Sheboygan when the name of the truck driver's employer, the Wingrove Oil company, South Commerce and Illinois street, Sheboygan, was learned, brought the information
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that the dead driver was Petersohn.
Crash at the Top of Hill
Authorities learned that Nicholson and Miss Hettmann left Rapids to attend a movie in Manitowoc shortly before 9 o'clock Saturday night. Parents of Henry Petersohn said their son had advised them earlier in the week that he would visit them Saturday night, but they figured he had abandoned this visit when he did not reach the home near Francis Creek by midnight.
Nicholson, who was in the armed services in the war, has been employed at the ship yards in this city since he was discharged.
The scene of the crash is at the top of a hill on highway 119, north of the village of Rapid, just before the highway joins highways 10 and 141, at the west end of Waldo boulevard.
Henry Petersohn, father of four children, was born in Siberia in 1907 and when a boy accompanied his parents to this county, in 1912. When a young man he moved to Sheboygan and was employed for 16 years by the Badger State tannery in that city. Last October he became a service man for the Wingrove Oil company in Sheboygan.
In 1927 he married Miss Irene Matheys. She survives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2 Manitowoc two daughters, Delores, 16, and Gloria Ann, 12, of Sheboygan; two sons, Eugene, with the armed forces at Scott Field, Ill., and Ronald, 8, of Sheboygan; six brothers, Alex of Manitowoc Rapids, Andrew, Leonard, Emil and George of route 2, Manitowoc, Louis with the armed forces in Japan; and three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Eslinger of Sheboygan, Mrs. William Behnke and Mrs. Archie Reynolds of Manitowoc.
Funerals Wednesday
The body will lie in state at the Pfeffer funeral home until Tuesday morning, when it will be moved to the Steffen funeral home in Sheboygan. Services will be held there at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Wildwood cemetery in this city.
Miss Hettmann, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettmann of Manitowoc Rapids, attended the St. Paul's Catholic church in this city and had recently been employed at the Kugler store and tavern in Rapids. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Adeline, 23, of Eagle Rock, Calif., and Celia, 13, at home; and a brother Clarence, 15, at home.
Funeral services for Miss Hettmann will be held at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Shimek and Schwartz funeral home and at 9 o'clock at the St. Paul's Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight at the funeral home.
The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis., May 20, 1946 pp 1-2
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GLADYS L. HETTMANN
(1925 - 1946)
Two Killed, One Hurt, Auto and Truck Collided
Vehicles Meet Head On Near Rapids Village
Accident Occurred Early Sunday; Car Driver Hospitalized
A 20-year-old Manitowoc Rapids girl and a 38-year-old Sheboygan truck driver were killed in the crash of a small coupe and a truck on highway 119, just north of the village of Rapids at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The dead:
Gladys Hettmann, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettman of Manitowoc Rapids.
Henry Petersohn Jr., 38, of 2033 New Jersey avenue, Sheboygan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2, Manitowoc.
The injured:
George Nicholson, 23, of Manitowoc Rapids, driver of the car in which Miss Hettmann was a passenger, brain concussion and broken left arm.
According to Coroner Theodore Teitgen and Sheriff Arthur Truttscheel, who were called to the accident, Nicholson and Miss Hettmann were returning to Manitowoc Rapids from Club 10, at Branch, where they had stopped after attending a theater in this city earlier in the evening. The car was southbound on highway 119. Petersohn, oil burner service man for the Wingrove Oil company of Sheboygan, and driving a small pickup truck, was enroute to visit his parents near Francis Creek and was northbound.
County Traffic Officers Henry Pleuss and William Falvey, who also answered the accident call, said the couple, which Nicholson had borrowed from Edmund Kugler, Rapids tavern operator, by whom Miss Hettmann was employed, had swerved to the east side of the highway just before the impact. Track marks indicated that Petersohn had swung to the right side of the highway. The two vehicles met almost head-on.
Plan Inquest
Petersohn, who sustained a broken neck, fractured skull and broken right leg, when he was pitched forward into the windshield, was dead before he could be taken from the truck cab. Miss Hettmann, who sustained a fractured skull, and broken neck, was placed in an ambulance and brought to the Holy Family hospital in this city. She was pronounced dead on entrance.
Nicholson, suffering from a slight concussion and a broken arm, was also brought to the hospital.
Coroner Teitgen announced there will probably be an inquest.
The two fatalities Sunday brought the number of highway deaths in Manitowoc county so far this year to four.
According to the sheriff, it was a couple of hours after the accident before the identity of the Sheboygan truck driver was established. All that was found on his person was a small amount of change in his pocket and a slip of paper bearing the name "Konrad Testwuide, 1719 15th street, Sheboygan." A telephone call to the sheriff there sent that officer to this address. He found that party in bed.
Further inquiry at Sheboygan when the name of the truck driver's employer, the Wingrove Oil company, South Commerce and Illinois street, Sheboygan, was learned, brought the information
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that the dead driver was Petersohn.
Crash at the Top of Hill
Authorities learned that Nicholson and Miss Hettmann left Rapids to attend a movie in Manitowoc shortly before 9 o'clock Saturday night. Parents of Henry Petersohn said their son had advised them earlier in the week that he would visit them Saturday night, but they figured he had abandoned this visit when he did not reach the home near Francis Creek by midnight.
Nicholson, who was in the armed services in the war, has been employed at the ship yards in this city since he was discharged.
The scene of the crash is at the top of a hill on highway 119, north of the village of Rapid, just before the highway joins highways 10 and 141, at the west end of Waldo boulevard.
Henry Petersohn, father of four children, was born in Siberia in 1907 and when a boy accompanied his parents to this county, in 1912. When a young man he moved to Sheboygan and was employed for 16 years by the Badger State tannery in that city. Last October he became a service man for the Wingrove Oil company in Sheboygan.
In 1927 he married Miss Irene Matheys. She survives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2 Manitowoc two daughters, Delores, 16, and Gloria Ann, 12, of Sheboygan; two sons, Eugene, with the armed forces at Scott Field, Ill., and Ronald, 8, of Sheboygan; six brothers, Alex of Manitowoc Rapids, Andrew, Leonard, Emil and George of route 2, Manitowoc, Louis with the armed forces in Japan; and three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Eslinger of Sheboygan, Mrs. William Behnke and Mrs. Archie Reynolds of Manitowoc.
Funerals Wednesday
The body will lie in state at the Pfeffer funeral home until Tuesday morning, when it will be moved to the Steffen funeral home in Sheboygan. Services will be held there at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Wildwood cemetery in this city.
Miss Hettmann, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettmann of Manitowoc Rapids, attended the St. Paul's Catholic church in this city and had recently been employed at the Kugler store and tavern in Rapids. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Adeline, 23, of Eagle Rock, Calif., and Celia, 13, at home; and a brother Clarence, 15, at home.
Funeral services for Miss Hettmann will be held at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Shimek and Schwartz funeral home and at 9 o'clock at the St. Paul's Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight at the funeral home.
The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis., May 20, 1946 pp 1-2
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(1925 - 1946)
Two Killed, One Hurt, Auto and Truck Collided
Vehicles Meet Head On Near Rapids Village
Accident Occurred Early Sunday; Car Driver Hospitalized
A 20-year-old Manitowoc Rapids girl and a 38-year-old Sheboygan truck driver were killed in the crash of a small coupe and a truck on highway 119, just north of the village of Rapids at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The dead:
Gladys Hettmann, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettman of Manitowoc Rapids.
Henry Petersohn Jr., 38, of 2033 New Jersey avenue, Sheboygan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2, Manitowoc.
The injured:
George Nicholson, 23, of Manitowoc Rapids, driver of the car in which Miss Hettmann was a passenger, brain concussion and broken left arm.
According to Coroner Theodore Teitgen and Sheriff Arthur Truttscheel, who were called to the accident, Nicholson and Miss Hettmann were returning to Manitowoc Rapids from Club 10, at Branch, where they had stopped after attending a theater in this city earlier in the evening. The car was southbound on highway 119. Petersohn, oil burner service man for the Wingrove Oil company of Sheboygan, and driving a small pickup truck, was enroute to visit his parents near Francis Creek and was northbound.
County Traffic Officers Henry Pleuss and William Falvey, who also answered the accident call, said the couple, which Nicholson had borrowed from Edmund Kugler, Rapids tavern operator, by whom Miss Hettmann was employed, had swerved to the east side of the highway just before the impact. Track marks indicated that Petersohn had swung to the right side of the highway. The two vehicles met almost head-on.
Plan Inquest
Petersohn, who sustained a broken neck, fractured skull and broken right leg, when he was pitched forward into the windshield, was dead before he could be taken from the truck cab. Miss Hettmann, who sustained a fractured skull, and broken neck, was placed in an ambulance and brought to the Holy Family hospital in this city. She was pronounced dead on entrance.
Nicholson, suffering from a slight concussion and a broken arm, was also brought to the hospital.
Coroner Teitgen announced there will probably be an inquest.
The two fatalities Sunday brought the number of highway deaths in Manitowoc county so far this year to four.
According to the sheriff, it was a couple of hours after the accident before the identity of the Sheboygan truck driver was established. All that was found on his person was a small amount of change in his pocket and a slip of paper bearing the name "Konrad Testwuide, 1719 15th street, Sheboygan." A telephone call to the sheriff there sent that officer to this address. He found that party in bed.
Further inquiry at Sheboygan when the name of the truck driver's employer, the Wingrove Oil company, South Commerce and Illinois street, Sheboygan, was learned, brought the information
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that the dead driver was Petersohn.
Crash at the Top of Hill
Authorities learned that Nicholson and Miss Hettmann left Rapids to attend a movie in Manitowoc shortly before 9 o'clock Saturday night. Parents of Henry Petersohn said their son had advised them earlier in the week that he would visit them Saturday night, but they figured he had abandoned this visit when he did not reach the home near Francis Creek by midnight.
Nicholson, who was in the armed services in the war, has been employed at the ship yards in this city since he was discharged.
The scene of the crash is at the top of a hill on highway 119, north of the village of Rapid, just before the highway joins highways 10 and 141, at the west end of Waldo boulevard.
Henry Petersohn, father of four children, was born in Siberia in 1907 and when a boy accompanied his parents to this county, in 1912. When a young man he moved to Sheboygan and was employed for 16 years by the Badger State tannery in that city. Last October he became a service man for the Wingrove Oil company in Sheboygan.
In 1927 he married Miss Irene Matheys. She survives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petersohn Sr., of route 2 Manitowoc two daughters, Delores, 16, and Gloria Ann, 12, of Sheboygan; two sons, Eugene, with the armed forces at Scott Field, Ill., and Ronald, 8, of Sheboygan; six brothers, Alex of Manitowoc Rapids, Andrew, Leonard, Emil and George of route 2, Manitowoc, Louis with the armed forces in Japan; and three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Eslinger of Sheboygan, Mrs. William Behnke and Mrs. Archie Reynolds of Manitowoc.
Funerals Wednesday
The body will lie in state at the Pfeffer funeral home until Tuesday morning, when it will be moved to the Steffen funeral home in Sheboygan. Services will be held there at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Wildwood cemetery in this city.
Miss Hettmann, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hettmann of Manitowoc Rapids, attended the St. Paul's Catholic church in this city and had recently been employed at the Kugler store and tavern in Rapids. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Adeline, 23, of Eagle Rock, Calif., and Celia, 13, at home; and a brother Clarence, 15, at home.
Funeral services for Miss Hettmann will be held at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Shimek and Schwartz funeral home and at 9 o'clock at the St. Paul's Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight at the funeral home.
The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis., May 20, 1946 pp 1-2
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