Byron Dorcas

DORCAS, MEYERS, FIKE, GARDNER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 11/21/2019 at 09:03:20

14 September 1961 - The Tipton Conservative

Byron M. Dorcas, 53, Red Oak township farmer, was instantly killed in an accident involving 2 trucks and a car, approximately 3 miles north of Tipton on Highway 38 about 9:20 a.m. Monday.

Dorcas was crushed under the cab of his stock truck after it tipped over in the driveway of the Stanley Rose farm.

Also injured in the accident were Floyd A. Aikman, 56, driver of the car and Hobart Shultz, 65, a passenger in the car driven by Aikman. Aikman received a bruised shoulder. Shultz suffered a concussion, several broken ribs and face cuts.

Wendell (Bud) Willer, driver of the second truck, escaped injury.

Officers who investigated the accident said that Dorcas was driving south on Highway 150, followed by the Aikman car. Willer was driving north. As Dorcas turned right, to the west, into the Rose farm, which he owns, the right front of the Aikman car struck the right rear of the Dorcas truck.

The truck went over on its left side, almost in the middle of the driveway, between the highway and the North Western railroad track. Dorcas fell from the cab, and the truck dropped on him.

The Aikman car went into the left lane of traffic and into the path of the truck driven by Willer, which is owned by the Hedges Gough Lumber company.

Willer pulled off to the right, onto the east shoulder of the highway, and the left front fender of the Aikman car struck the left rear fender of Willer's truck. Willer went down the shoulder across a field entrance and stopped in the ditch.

Funeral services for Mr. Dorcas will be held at 1:30 today (Thursday) in St. John's United Church of Christ in Clarence, with the Rev. Harley Yates of Kinross officiating. Burial will be in the Clarence cemetery.

Byron Martin Dorcas, the son of Homer A. and Golden Zuck Dorcas, was born Jan. 30, 1908 in Red Oak township. He was married to Mary Meyers Aug. 20, 1946 at Mercersburg, Pa.

He has been prominent in farming activities in Cedar county, and active in the Cedar county Farm Bureau. He was a member of the Church of the Brethren.

He is survived by his wife, his mother, Mrs. Golden Dorcas, Tipton; 2 aunts, Mrs. U. J. Fike, Clarence and Mrs. Edna Gardner and an uncle, Otto Zuck, Sioux City.

Pallbearers are Kenneth Smith, Donald Challis, Leo Fisher, Frank Fisher Jr., Alvah Morphew and Robert Clark. Mrs. Leo Fisher and Mrs. Frank Fisher Jr. will have charge of the flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Riedesel Jr., Bennett will sing, with Mrs. Robert Joslin, organist.