Glen Grace

GRACE

Posted By: Becki Watters (email)
Date: 6/6/2010 at 19:56:25

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Funeral services were arranged at Dixon, Ill. Tuesday for Glen Grace, Swaledale athletic coach, who was killed in a highway accident near Clinton. Swaledale school will be closed until Wednesday because of the funeral of Coach Grace.
Two busloads carrying Swaledale students went to Dixon Tuesday morning to attend Couch Grace’s funeral. Sheriff’s officers and highway patrolmen escorted them to the county line, and they were escorted the entire route by other highway patrolmen, according to word received here by Sheriff Tim Phalen.

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.

Coach Killed When His Car Meets a Truck;
Victim Fell Asleep, Officers Think;
(The Register’s Iowa News Service)
Clinton, IA.---Glen Grace, 23, the athletic coach at the Swaledale, Ia., consolidated school was injured fatally in a highway accident six miles east of DeWitt, Ia, about 1 a.m. Sunday.
Grace had been visiting his parents at Bennett, Ia, during spring vacation and was returning there from Sterling, Ill., where he had been to take a girl friend home.
State highway patrolmen said he probably fell asleep at the wheel. His auto left the road, then swung back, sideswiping a transport truck traveling in the opposite direction.
Lester Luther, 21,of Walkerton, Ind., driver of the truck, was uninjured.
Grace was rushed to Jane Lamb hospital here where he died an hour after the accident of a basal skull fracture.
He was graduated last spring from Upper Iowa university at Fayette, Ia., and was secretary-treasurer of his senior class. He played on the college baseball team as shortstop and was active in dramatics and singing.
He was an honor student in commercial subjects in college and was serving as commercial teacher at Swaledale.
The body was taken to a Davenport, Ia. Mortuary, and funeral services are to be Tuesday at Dixon, Ill.
Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Grace and a sister.