Sheboygan Crash Kills Kiel Youth
SHEBOYGAN-Lee Donald Bennin, 19, of Rt. 1 Kiel, died here Friday night at St.
Nicholas Hospital after his car collided with another on Kohler Memorial Drive
about two miles inside the Sheboygan city limits.
His death raised Sheboygan County's 1968 traffic death toll to seven and in the
state the toll climbed to 398 compared with 319 on this date last year.
Miss Gloria Blasler, 16, of 921 S. 11th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the Bennin
auto is hospitalized at St. Nicholas with scalp lacerations received when she was
thrown from the auto.
Car Overturns
The accident occurred at about 10:20 p.m. as Bennin tried to pass another automobile
going in a westerly direction. His car climbed an embankment and overturned. The
youth died of severe head injuries.
Bennin was born May 6, 1949, at Manitowoc, son of Clarence and Mary Langenhahn Bennin.
He attended Holy Trinity parochial school, School Hill, and was graduated from Kiel
High School in 1967. Presently he was employed at Burger Boat Co., Inc., Manitowoc,
and was a member of Boilermakers Local 443.
Survivors include the parents; two sisters, five brothers (Survivors omitted for
privacy.); and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. August Langenhahn, of Rt. 1,
Kiel.
Services Tuesday
Funeral services will be at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at Meiselwitz Funeral Home, Kiel, and
at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, School Hill. The Rev. H.G. Messmer, SDS,
will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Monday where at 8:15 p.m. the
Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. May 25, 1968 P. 1
SHEBOYGAN-Lee Donald Bennin, 19, of Rt. 1 Kiel, died here Friday night at St.
Nicholas Hospital after his car collided with another on Kohler Memorial Drive
about two miles inside the Sheboygan city limits.
His death raised Sheboygan County's 1968 traffic death toll to seven and in the
state the toll climbed to 398 compared with 319 on this date last year.
Miss Gloria Blasler, 16, of 921 S. 11th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the Bennin
auto is hospitalized at St. Nicholas with scalp lacerations received when she was
thrown from the auto.
Car Overturns
The accident occurred at about 10:20 p.m. as Bennin tried to pass another automobile
going in a westerly direction. His car climbed an embankment and overturned. The
youth died of severe head injuries.
Bennin was born May 6, 1949, at Manitowoc, son of Clarence and Mary Langenhahn Bennin.
He attended Holy Trinity parochial school, School Hill, and was graduated from Kiel
High School in 1967. Presently he was employed at Burger Boat Co., Inc., Manitowoc,
and was a member of Boilermakers Local 443.
Survivors include the parents; two sisters, five brothers (Survivors omitted for
privacy.); and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. August Langenhahn, of Rt. 1,
Kiel.
Services Tuesday
Funeral services will be at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at Meiselwitz Funeral Home, Kiel, and
at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, School Hill. The Rev. H.G. Messmer, SDS,
will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Monday where at 8:15 p.m. the
Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. May 25, 1968 P. 1
Sheboygan Crash Kills Kiel Youth
SHEBOYGAN-Lee Donald Bennin, 19, of Rt. 1 Kiel, died here Friday night at St.
Nicholas Hospital after his car collided with another on Kohler Memorial Drive
about two miles inside the Sheboygan city limits.
His death raised Sheboygan County's 1968 traffic death toll to seven and in the
state the toll climbed to 398 compared with 319 on this date last year.
Miss Gloria Blasler, 16, of 921 S. 11th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the Bennin
auto is hospitalized at St. Nicholas with scalp lacerations received when she was
thrown from the auto.
Car Overturns
The accident occurred at about 10:20 p.m. as Bennin tried to pass another automobile
going in a westerly direction. His car climbed an embankment and overturned. The
youth died of severe head injuries.
Bennin was born May 6, 1949, at Manitowoc, son of Clarence and Mary Langenhahn Bennin.
He attended Holy Trinity parochial school, School Hill, and was graduated from Kiel
High School in 1967. Presently he was employed at Burger Boat Co., Inc., Manitowoc,
and was a member of Boilermakers Local 443.
Survivors include the parents; two sisters, five brothers (Survivors omitted for
privacy.); and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. August Langenhahn, of Rt. 1,
Kiel.
Services Tuesday
Funeral services will be at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at Meiselwitz Funeral Home, Kiel, and
at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, School Hill. The Rev. H.G. Messmer, SDS,
will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Monday where at 8:15 p.m. the
Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. May 25, 1968 P. 1
SHEBOYGAN-Lee Donald Bennin, 19, of Rt. 1 Kiel, died here Friday night at St.
Nicholas Hospital after his car collided with another on Kohler Memorial Drive
about two miles inside the Sheboygan city limits.
His death raised Sheboygan County's 1968 traffic death toll to seven and in the
state the toll climbed to 398 compared with 319 on this date last year.
Miss Gloria Blasler, 16, of 921 S. 11th St., Manitowoc, a passenger in the Bennin
auto is hospitalized at St. Nicholas with scalp lacerations received when she was
thrown from the auto.
Car Overturns
The accident occurred at about 10:20 p.m. as Bennin tried to pass another automobile
going in a westerly direction. His car climbed an embankment and overturned. The
youth died of severe head injuries.
Bennin was born May 6, 1949, at Manitowoc, son of Clarence and Mary Langenhahn Bennin.
He attended Holy Trinity parochial school, School Hill, and was graduated from Kiel
High School in 1967. Presently he was employed at Burger Boat Co., Inc., Manitowoc,
and was a member of Boilermakers Local 443.
Survivors include the parents; two sisters, five brothers (Survivors omitted for
privacy.); and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. August Langenhahn, of Rt. 1,
Kiel.
Services Tuesday
Funeral services will be at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at Meiselwitz Funeral Home, Kiel, and
at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, School Hill. The Rev. H.G. Messmer, SDS,
will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Monday where at 8:15 p.m. the
Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. May 25, 1968 P. 1
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