C. F. STUTZMAN

STUTZMAN, DAUBENBERGER, CRISMAN, GRUBB

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 2/21/2003 at 19:38:14

LANSING MAN DIES IN CRASH

C. F. Stutzman, Lansing school teacher, was fatality injured Saturday night at 7:20 o'clock when the car he was driving and that driven by Val Menke of Constance, Minn., collided almost head-on about a half mile east of Church on highway No. 9.

Mr. Stutzman was rushed by ambulance to the office of a Waukon physician, where he died shortly after arrival. His neck was fractured and his head crushed. His death marked the second highway fatality so far this year in Allamakee county.

Mrs. Stutzman, only other occupant of the car, received numerous bruises. Mr. Menke, who was alone in the other car, was not injured.

The Stutzmans were on their way home when the accident occurred. After the collision their car gave way to the right and struck a large rock along the bank, overturned and ended facing the opposite direction. Damage to Menke's car was limited to the left front fender and wheel.

Mr. Stutzman was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Stutzman and was born Sept. 23, 1873, at Buda, Ill. He was graduated in the Buda schools and graduated from Finley college, Finley, Ohio. He married Hattie Daubenberger, Aug. 13, 1919.

He was a member of Brotherly Love Lodge No. 204 A. F. & A. M. at Postville, and was a Royal Arch Mason of Iowa, Unity Chapter, No. 62. He was a member of the Church of God at Buda and was Lansing township republican committeeman.

A teacher of mathematics and manual arts, he had taught at Avoca, Battle Creek, Roland, Waukon, and since 1943 at Lansing.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mary and Margaret, students at Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls; two sisters, Mrs. Millie Crisman, Buds, Ill.; Mrs. Frances Grubb, Sheffield, Ill.; two brothers, Guy Stutzman of Hanover, Ill., and Roy Stutzman of Buda. One sister preceded him in death.

Brief funeral services were held at Lansing Monday afternoon, with the Rev. C. H. Willemssen officiating, and other services were held Wednesday afternoon at Buda, with burial in Bunker Hill cemetery.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1947, from my mother's obituary collection.