Harold Parks, 1927-1946

PARKS, FLIPSEY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/3/2013 at 19:25:15

The Spencer Daily Reporter
Monday, August 10, 1946

HAROLD PARKS OF PETERSON, IS DROWNED
Youth Meets Death While On Picnic Party At Lost Island Lake With Group of Friends

Harold Parks, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parks of near Peterson, drowned Sunday afternoon about three o’clock in Lost Island Lake, where he had gone swimming after a picnic.

The picnic group was composed of Do-It-Better Club members and their families of near Langdon. The youth had gone to the picnic with the Ray C. Lawrence family, on whose farm he had been employed this year. The club is an organization of the Farm Bureau.

After the picnic dinner, some members of the group including they youth had played ball for a while and then the youth had donned his swimming trunks and gone down to the dock.

The tragedy occurred when he jumped off the dock at the State Park into six or seven feet of water. Dr. R. J. Brink, of Ayrshire, Palo Alto county coroner, pronounced the death accidental from drowning. He said that he did not believe the youth knew how deep the water was into which he was jumping.

The body was recovered about an hour later. The Emmetsburg Fire Department had been called and used the resuscitator on the youth but could not save his life. The rescuers worked over the body with the resuscitator for more than an hour.

His parents were not there when the boy lost his life.

The body was taken to the Lightle Funeral Home at Ruthven after the tragedy and later was brought to the Cobb-Warner Funeral Home in Spencer, where funeral arrangements are being made.

Arrangements for last rites are incomplete at this time, however, pending word from the youth’s sister in California. Surviving besides the parents are two brothers and five sisters. They are Mrs. Vaughn Walton at Monterey; Lucille, Mrs. Ray Ollinger of Spencer; Leslie Parks of Spencer; and Wava, Margaret, Loretta Jane, and Franklin, all of whom live at home. The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Flipsey, of near Spencer, also survive.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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