Glen Grace

GRACE

Posted By: Becki Watters (email)
Date: 6/6/2010 at 16:58:32

from family scrapbook, no newspaper name or date

Bennett Man Fatally Hurt in Road Crash; Driver Drowses at Wheel of Car and Loses Control;
Glen Grace, 22, Fayette college graduate, of Bennett, died in Jane Lamb hospital at 1:30 a.m. Sunday of injuries including a fractured skill sustained an hour earlier in a crash between his automobile and a freight truck on Lincoln Highway near Pelham’s Corners east of DeWitt.
Apparently Grace drowsed at the wheel of his car and, out of control, it veered onto the highway shoulder. As he swung back on the road the car swerved to the left side of the highway and against the side of an eastbound truck operated by Lester Luther, 21, Walkerton, Ind. Luther was driving a Brady Transfer Co. truck en route from Fort Dodge to Chicago. He was not injured.
Grace was rushed to Jane Lamb hospital but his injuries were so severe that he lived but a short time. Witnesses to the accident were Charles Olney, 1718 North Ninth street, and Ross Turner, Fulton, Ill., who were traveling behind the eastbound truck. They described how the Grace automobile turned off the road and then back and into the path of the oncoming truck.
State patrolmen Freese and Grimm took charge of traffic at the scene of the wreck and conducted an investigation. They later reported the accident to Clinton police.
Grace, who was en route to his home in Bennett from Sterling, Ill, was athletic coach at the Swaledale consolidated school. He had been visiting with his parents in Bennett during spring recess and was returning there from Sterling where he had taken a girl acquaintance home. He graduated last spring from Upper Iowa University at Fayette and was secretary-treasurer of his class. He was an honor student in commercial subjects in college and was serving as commercial teacher in Swaledale.
The body was removed to a Davenport funeral home. Funeral services will be held Tuesday in Dixon, Ill.
Among survivors are the parents and a sister of the deceased.
Coroner L. O. Riggert ordered an inquest to be held at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the city hall. The jurors will be composed of three doctors including W. M. Walliker, R. F. Luse and W. J. Tomlinson.