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The Algona Upper Des Moines from Algona, Iowa • Page 8

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Algona, Iowa
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"fr I'i 1.1 Young Sf. Joe Man Killed In Crash Saturday Night The body of Cleius P. Slreii, 32, Si. becaihe Kossuih county's ninth auto fatality of 1959, 5s shown behind the steering wheel in the wreckage of his auto on the left in the above phdto. Streit's auto and a vehicle driven by James M.

Doyle, 19: Bancroft, collided on highway 169 eight miles south of Algona. The mishap occurred at 6:15 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services for Cletus Streit, 32, St. Joe farmer who was killed Saturday evening in a crash north of that community qn highway 169, were held at 9:30 a.m, Tuesday in St.

Joseph's Catholic church at St Joe. ITr. L. C. Schumacher officiated at the rites and burial was in the St.

Joe cemetery. Hamilton a Home was in charge of i arrangements. Pallbearers at the rites were Vernon Berte, Francis Erpelding, Joseph Berte, Danny Insko, Alfred Freilinger and lames Butler. Oletus Peter Streit, son ot George and Leona Fandel Streit was born. Dec.

Si, 1926 at Bend. Anna. Marie Berte Feb. 1949 at' Livermore after serving the years 1945-46 in' the U.S. Navy.

He 'farmed a mile east of St. Joe. He is survived by his wife, five children, Ruth Ann, Jeanj Marie, 8, Charles, 6, Linda, 4, and George, 2, all at home; seven brothers and sisters, Bernard, Ottosen; Mary (Mrs Marvin Erpelding), Edward, Gerald, Rita, Paul and Coletta; and his parents, all of Whittemore. Mr Streit died instantly of a fractured neck when an auto driven by him and another car, driven by- James M. Doyle, 19, Bancroft, collided eight miles of Algona on 169 at 6:15 Saturday, Doyle received chest injuries and leg lacerations and Francis J.

Berte, 26, Liyermore, a passenger in the Streit vehicle, received twb fractured legs and lacerations of the face and head. The Doyle auto, headed north, was passing a third machine, driven by Fred Jurgens, Mai- ard, when the'Streit and Doyle hit head-on in the west ane the highway. According to witnesses', Mr and Mrs, Juur. gens'and Mr and Mrs Ed'Barber, West Bend, passengers in the Jurgens auto, the lights on the luto, a 1953 Kaiser, were not urned on and the car could not bo seen by either of the other drivers until too avoid the It was dark at the time of the crash and, according to witnesses, the lights on Streit's auto were not Doyle, who was passing another auto at the time, reportedly didn't see the Streit car, 'Doyle and Francis Berte, 1 26, Livertnpre, a passenger with Streit, were rushed to St. Ann hospital and treated for injuries received.

(UDM Flashfoto-Engraving), 8-Algona (la.) Upper Des Moines Thursday, Oct. 15, crash. Streits death was the ninth on county and roads this Streit and Berte were on their way home from picking corn at the time of the mishap. Bath autos were total Sheriff Lindhorst and Pat- ro'lman 'Bill Tordoff were called to investigate the-injured were taken to St. Ann hospital by ambulance.

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