Streeter, Joseph A. & son Walter E. died 1931
STREETER, STREATOR, BEETAM, VANDERWALKER, DE CLERG
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 11/6/2022 at 16:14:57
Clayton County Register, Thur., 18 June 1931.
CLAYTON: Joe Streator, 32, and his son Walter, 5, were drowned here about noon Tuesday while they were trying to escape from a launch which had caught fire.
Earl Beetam, 18, was with Mr. Streator and his son Walter when the launch caught fire in the Mississippi a short distance below here. Fearing that the gasoline supply might explode, the three jumped into the river, the father with his son on his back. The youngster was lost while the father was swimming and it was while trying to save the former that the father went down to his watery grave.
Frankk Gibbs, a fisherman, who was on the river at the same time and saw the fire, rushed to the aid of the unfortunate swimmers and was able to save Beetam, also a fisherman.
The body of the elder Streator was recovered and taken from the water about an hour after the tragedy and Dr. A. E. Beyer of Guttenberg worked over it with a pulmotor but these efforts failed to revive the former.
Six boats were on the river Tuesday afternoon aiding in the search for the body of the boy in about fifteen feet of water near a sand bar but was not located until 7:30 that evening.
Mrs. Streator, one boy and a girl survive the father and son.
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Clayton County Register, Thur., 25 June 1931.
CLAYTON: Joseph Albert Streeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Streeter, was born in Lancaster, Wis., Oct. 03, 1898, and was called to be with the Lord June 16, 1931. Walter Edward Streeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Streeter, was born July 06, 1925, The Lord also called him with his father. June 16, 1931. Joe was united in marriage to Hazel Beetem, April 06, 1922. To this family was born four children: Robert, 8 years; Walter, 5 years, who was called with his father; Edith Mae, preceded them in death in 1927 at the age of five months: Cherrie Ruth, 14 months.
Joe served in the Word War as a private for 20 months, spending most of his time in California. They leave to mourn their departure the wife and mother, son and brother Robert; sister and daughter Cherrie Ruth. He also leaves his mother and grandmother, two sisters, Mrs. C. G. Vanderwalker and Marie De Clerg, of Chicago; a half-brother and many other relatives.
The funeral was held at the home of her brother, Floyd Beetam, Oliver Smith of Waterloo presiding at the services. A large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends wended their way to the cemetery. The Legion post of McGregor served the rites at the grave, which was very fitting for the sad occasion.
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