JONES, Harold R. 1911-1941
JONES, MENDENHALL, KLEVJORD, PODENDORF
Posted By: Kermit Kittleson
Date: 8/31/2011 at 21:03:06
Harold R. Jones, 30
Harold L. Rosauer, 27
Miss Carol Nancy Lightfoot, 20----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rites Set for Three Car Victims
Killed as Auto Overshoots 218
Road Curve in BremerFuneral arrangements were completed Monday for two "Waterloo residents and a third living in Hudson but employed in Waterloo, killed early Sunday when their sedan overshot a highway 218 S-curve, three miles south of Waverly, Iowa, and rolled into a deep ditch.
Victims in the tragedy were Miss Carol Nancy Lightfoot, 20, of 847½ West Fourth street, switchboard operator at Rath Packing Company offices here, who died of head injuries at 5:35 a.m. Sunday in Sartori Hospital, Cedar Falls.
Harold R. Jones, 30, of 1312 West Third street, operator, of the Shell filling station, Fifth and Franklin Streets, and driver of the car, who died instantly of a broken neck.
Harold L. Rosauer, 27, Hudson, Iowa, Rath Packing plant employee, who also died instantly of a broken neck.
Two other occupants of the demolished sedan, Miss Julia Goldsberry, 18, of 217 Glendale Street, and Clinton McFarlane, 19 of Hudson, were released Sunday from Mercy Hospital, Waverly, after treatment for multiple lacerations and bruises.
First of the three funeral services will be conducted for Harold R. Jones at 7 p.m. Monday in the Kearns Garden Chapel, following which the body will be taken to Missouri Valley, Iowa, for another service at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be at Missouri Valley. Reverend H. E. Dierenfield, pastor of First Presbyterian Church will officiate at the service here.
Services for Rosauer will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church here. Reverend Msgr. E. J. Dougherty, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Eagle Center Cemetery.
The body will be taken at 6 p.m. Monday from the Ray Hurley Funeral Home to the Rosauer residence at Hudson. The Rosary society of Sacred Heart Church will meet at the Rosauer residence at 8 p.m. Monday.
Rights for Miss Lightfoot will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Kearns Garden Chapel, Rev. A. L. Drake, pastor of First Baptist Church, in charge. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, beside the grave of her father, the late Roy Lightfoot, killed July 4, 1939, in an airplane plunge with Richard Berry, Waterloo pilot, near Black Hawk airport, southwest of the city.
Iowa highway patrolmen investigating the fatal crash reported that Mr. and Mrs. Jones, in company with Miss Lightfoot and Rosauer. Miss Goldberry and McFarlane had attended a Saturday night dance at Electric Park Ballroom here until late evening. Because, she said, she felt ill and tired, Mrs. Jones left the group about 11:30 p.m. and went home, informed that the other five planned to get a midnight lunch and perhaps take an auto ride before they went home.
Survivors of the mishap told patrolmen the five drove north on Highway 218 to Cedar Falls and to Waverly "just for the ride" and were southbound three miles out of Waverly when the car missed the first part of the S-curve, plunged against the ditch bank and rolled.
Patrolman Clare Hoffman said his investigation of the crash showed Jones' car, a 1937 sedan, went 100 feet from the roadway before striking the bank and then rolled another 162 feet before coming to rest on its top, almost totally wrecked.
With the exception of Rosauer, all occupants of the sedan were thrown clear as the car overturned. Passing motorists took Miss Lightfoot, Miss Goldberry and McFarlane to the hospital in Waverly and Cedar Falls. Jones and Rosauer were dead when reached.
Bremer county's coroner, Dr. James Whitmire, Sumner, said Monday he planned no inquest into the three fatalities.
Sombody Yelled "Whoa," Miss Goldberry, thru facial bandages, said Monday -- she and McFarlane believed Jones either dozed off or simply lost control of the car as it went around the curve. Half asleep at the time, she remembered very little of the mishap, she said, except that somebody yelled "Whoa" as the car went onto the highway shoulder in it's fatal plunge.
On the trip to Waverly and homeward, Miss Goldberry said, she and McFarlane shared the front seat with Jones. Miss Lightfoot and Rosauer were in the back seat.
Altho she stipulated it was "only a guess," Miss Goldberry estimated Jones' sedan was traveling about 60 miles an hour, or a little less, when it left the pavement.
At the time of Miss Lightfoot's death, her mother, Mrs. Lottie Lightfoot, also of 847½ West Fourth, was with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Zimmerman, Martin Road, en route by automobile to Detroit, Michigan, to visit two other sisters and two brothers. The party left Waterloo at 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police radio broadcasts in Iowa and Illinois reaches Mrs. Lightfoot at 9 a.m. Sunday in Rockford, Illinois and she returned home.
Resident of Waterloo the past six years, Jones came here from Missouri Valley, where he was born April 3, 1911, only child of Ray and Luella Jones.
He married Elouise Mendenhall at Omaha, Nebraska, February 11, 1935. She survives, with the father, Ray E. Jones, Bend, Oregon; the mother, Mrs. Martin Klevjord, Sac City, Iowa, and a grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Podendorf, at Missouri Valley.
Carole Nancy Lightfoot was born December 20, 1920, in Waterloo, daughter of Roy and Lottie Lightfoot. She was graduated from West High School in 1939 and had been employed since in the office of the Rath Packing Company.
Surviving are the mother, a brother, Donald, 514 Argyle Street, and a sister, Mrs. Kenneth Klein, of 847½ West Fourth.
She was a member of First Baptist Church.
Harold Leo Rosauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rosauer, was born July 3, 1914, at Hudson, attended schools there and in 1936 became an employee of the smoke department at Rath's.
Surviving are his parents at Hudson; two brothers, James, 233 Charles Street, and Theodore, at home; two sisters, Marjorie, a nurse in Detroit, Michigan, and Dorothy, at home; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Eva Rosauer, 1702 Franklin Street; and a son, Harold Jr., now living with Mrs. Rosauer after a divorce.
Rosauer was a member of Sacred Heart Church.
[Waterloo Courier, Monday, July 21, 1941]
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