Earl Wright

WRIGHT, HOSKINS, NACE, SCHROEDER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/13/2019 at 08:19:52

14 June 1956 - The Tipton Conservative

Earl L. Wright, 75, was fatally injured in a two-car crash south of Rochester about 8:30 Sunday.

Wright died early Tuesday morning in University hospital.

Wright, who lived with his daughter, Mrs. Winifred Nace, was going fishing when the crash occurred. He had crossed the Cedar river bridge south of Rochester and had turned north off highway 1.

About a half block from the highway his car and one driven by Bob Helm, 14, son of Mrs. W. H. McCrea, Atalissa, hit head-on. A passenger in the Helm car was Billy Coiner, also 14, whose father, Alvin Coiner, owned the car.

The Wright car was driven back so that the rear wheels were partly off the road. The Coiner car was still in the road. The left sides of both cars were extensively damaged.

Wright received head, face and chest injuries. The Coiner boy had a broken nose, a broken jaw and shoulder injuries. The Helm boy received face injuries and bruises.

The boys were delivering papers at the time of the accident.

Officers who investigated the accident said that charges would be filed as the result of the accident and death, probably Thursday morning.

Funeral services for Wright will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at the Sheets & Dahn funeral home. Burial will be in the Masonic cemetery.

Wright was born at Bennett and spent his entire life in eastern Iowa.

He is survived by two sons and two daughters, Jack, Rock Island, Ill.; Max, Lindsay, Mont., Mrs. Thelma Hoskins, Waterloo, and Mrs. Winifred Nace, Tipton; six grandchildren; four brothers, Ralph, Mobridge, S.D.; Charles, Clinton; Guy, Mechanicsville, and Lloyd, Macon, Ga.; two sisters, Mrs. Ora Schroeder, Hood River, Ore., and Pearl, Clinton.