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Loren Vernon Evilsizor

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Loren Vernon Evilsizor

Birth
USA
Death
29 May 1937 (aged 16)
Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Loren EVILSIZOR, 16, Is Tragedy Victim at Swimming Resort...Youth and companion had entered pool after closing hours; Body under water 30 minutes before recovered by firemen... Urbana, May 29- A stolen swim in the unguarded waters of Muzzy Lake, after the resort had closed for the night, brought death by drowning Saturday to 16 year old Loren Evilsizor of 222 Freeman St, Urbana. The youth was under water for more than half an hour before his body was recovered by Urbana firemen using grappling hooks. The drowning occurred about 7:30 P.M. According to the accounts of the tragedy related to Coroner Richard M Brand, Evilsizor and a companion, 15 year old Nelson Page came to the former stone quarry pool, at the Edge of the city, at dusk, and asked Arnold Crowl, resort manager, to permit them to swim. Crowl told investigating authorities that he had just closed the lake bathhouse for the evening and that he refused the youths the requested permission. However, Crowl said, the pair apparently managed to gain entrance to the bathhouse, changed into swimming suits and plunged into the lake. He said he first became aware that the boys were in swimming when he heard Page crying for help for his friend. He and Richard Shallabarger, a friend, rowed to the drowning boy's rescue, in a boat at the shoreline. The dived futilely for the body for approximately 20 minutes, he said before notifying the Urbana Fire Dept. Page, the victim's companion, recited that he and Evilsizor entered the lake and swam toward a raft, moored off shore. He reached the raft first, he said, and upon turning about saw his friend "puffing and blowing" in the water behind him. His cries of alarm brought the two men who were talking nearby. Members of the Fire Dept rescue crew attempted artificial respiration methods for 15 or 20 minuets after recovery of the body. Evilsizor was the son of Mr and Mrs. Jesse EVILSIZOR. Coroner Brand, after questioning witnesses, returned a verdict of accidental death. The youths body was taken to the Gardner and Seaver Funeral Home.



Loren EVILSIZOR, 16, Is Tragedy Victim at Swimming Resort...Youth and companion had entered pool after closing hours; Body under water 30 minutes before recovered by firemen... Urbana, May 29- A stolen swim in the unguarded waters of Muzzy Lake, after the resort had closed for the night, brought death by drowning Saturday to 16 year old Loren Evilsizor of 222 Freeman St, Urbana. The youth was under water for more than half an hour before his body was recovered by Urbana firemen using grappling hooks. The drowning occurred about 7:30 P.M. According to the accounts of the tragedy related to Coroner Richard M Brand, Evilsizor and a companion, 15 year old Nelson Page came to the former stone quarry pool, at the Edge of the city, at dusk, and asked Arnold Crowl, resort manager, to permit them to swim. Crowl told investigating authorities that he had just closed the lake bathhouse for the evening and that he refused the youths the requested permission. However, Crowl said, the pair apparently managed to gain entrance to the bathhouse, changed into swimming suits and plunged into the lake. He said he first became aware that the boys were in swimming when he heard Page crying for help for his friend. He and Richard Shallabarger, a friend, rowed to the drowning boy's rescue, in a boat at the shoreline. The dived futilely for the body for approximately 20 minutes, he said before notifying the Urbana Fire Dept. Page, the victim's companion, recited that he and Evilsizor entered the lake and swam toward a raft, moored off shore. He reached the raft first, he said, and upon turning about saw his friend "puffing and blowing" in the water behind him. His cries of alarm brought the two men who were talking nearby. Members of the Fire Dept rescue crew attempted artificial respiration methods for 15 or 20 minuets after recovery of the body. Evilsizor was the son of Mr and Mrs. Jesse EVILSIZOR. Coroner Brand, after questioning witnesses, returned a verdict of accidental death. The youths body was taken to the Gardner and Seaver Funeral Home.





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