Douglas Dawdy, 29, of Saranac, was instantly killed Tuesday evening when the car which he was driving sideswiped a truck about one-half mile north of Lake Odessa.
Sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Myers said Dawdy had suffered a broken neck. His companion, Harold Butterfield of Saranac, was removed to a Lake Odessa hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Driver of the truck which was owned by Johnson and Jarvis of Lake Odessa and Portland, Emory TenEyck, of Portland, was uninjured.
The latter told officers that Dawdy, who was headed south towards Lake Odessa, sideswiped the front fender of the truck and crashed into the rack. The side of the passenger automobile was ripped off by the impact.
Besides the wife, Mrs. Rachel Dawdy, and three stepchildren, of Saranac, the deceased is survived by a son, Douglas Jr., of Kalamazoo; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dawdy of Portland; and a brother, Richard Dawdy of Portland.
Funeral services will be held at the Bandfield funeral home in Portland at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Lewis Rigelman will officiate and burial will be in Portland cemetery.
Source: The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 15, 1940.
Sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Myers said Dawdy had suffered a broken neck. His companion, Harold Butterfield of Saranac, was removed to a Lake Odessa hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Driver of the truck which was owned by Johnson and Jarvis of Lake Odessa and Portland, Emory TenEyck, of Portland, was uninjured.
The latter told officers that Dawdy, who was headed south towards Lake Odessa, sideswiped the front fender of the truck and crashed into the rack. The side of the passenger automobile was ripped off by the impact.
Besides the wife, Mrs. Rachel Dawdy, and three stepchildren, of Saranac, the deceased is survived by a son, Douglas Jr., of Kalamazoo; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dawdy of Portland; and a brother, Richard Dawdy of Portland.
Funeral services will be held at the Bandfield funeral home in Portland at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Lewis Rigelman will officiate and burial will be in Portland cemetery.
Source: The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 15, 1940.
Douglas Dawdy, 29, of Saranac, was instantly killed Tuesday evening when the car which he was driving sideswiped a truck about one-half mile north of Lake Odessa.
Sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Myers said Dawdy had suffered a broken neck. His companion, Harold Butterfield of Saranac, was removed to a Lake Odessa hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Driver of the truck which was owned by Johnson and Jarvis of Lake Odessa and Portland, Emory TenEyck, of Portland, was uninjured.
The latter told officers that Dawdy, who was headed south towards Lake Odessa, sideswiped the front fender of the truck and crashed into the rack. The side of the passenger automobile was ripped off by the impact.
Besides the wife, Mrs. Rachel Dawdy, and three stepchildren, of Saranac, the deceased is survived by a son, Douglas Jr., of Kalamazoo; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dawdy of Portland; and a brother, Richard Dawdy of Portland.
Funeral services will be held at the Bandfield funeral home in Portland at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Lewis Rigelman will officiate and burial will be in Portland cemetery.
Source: The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 15, 1940.
Sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Myers said Dawdy had suffered a broken neck. His companion, Harold Butterfield of Saranac, was removed to a Lake Odessa hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Driver of the truck which was owned by Johnson and Jarvis of Lake Odessa and Portland, Emory TenEyck, of Portland, was uninjured.
The latter told officers that Dawdy, who was headed south towards Lake Odessa, sideswiped the front fender of the truck and crashed into the rack. The side of the passenger automobile was ripped off by the impact.
Besides the wife, Mrs. Rachel Dawdy, and three stepchildren, of Saranac, the deceased is survived by a son, Douglas Jr., of Kalamazoo; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dawdy of Portland; and a brother, Richard Dawdy of Portland.
Funeral services will be held at the Bandfield funeral home in Portland at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Lewis Rigelman will officiate and burial will be in Portland cemetery.
Source: The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 15, 1940.
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