Mrs. Wilbur (Mary) Dalzell and Mrs. Martha Widmeier

DALZELL, WIDMEIER, AHERN, MCENERY, RECKER

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Date: 3/14/2015 at 13:45:22

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Jan 1967

4 DIE, DAMAGE HEAVY IN FOG
2 DUBUQUE WOMEN KILLED
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By Jim Shaffer
T-H Staff Writer
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To Dubuque women were killed, and two others seriously injured early Sunday afternoon in the worst of a series of fog related accidents in a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of US Hwy. 20.

Dead were Mrs. Wilbur (Mary) Dalzell, 53, of 2165 Morningview Road, Dubuque County deputy probation officer, and Mrs. Martha Widmeier, 58, 1655 Finley Street.

Listed in “serious” condition at Mercy Hospital in Dubuque were Mrs. James Ahern, 60, 888 S. Grandview Ave., and Mrs. Patricia McEnery, 40, 1655 Asbury St.

Dense fog settled down on the Tri-State area about 7 a.m. Sunday and grew steadily worse cutting visibility to less than 50 feet in many places, according to the US Weather Bureau Station at Dubuque.

The four women were in a car, driven by Mrs. Dalzell, that collided head on about 12:45 p.m. with a car driven by Phillip J. Recker, 23, of Earlville, Ia., two miles east of Epworth on Highway 20.

Witness told Iowa State patrolman Virgil Stanmeyer that Recker had just passed a string of six eastbound cars.

Recker was traveling east and Mrs. Dalzell west, Recker who was only slightly injured, was charged by Stamneyer with careless and reckless driving. The women were apparently on their way to a bridge tournament at Manchester, Ia.

Mrs. Dalzell, widely known sport enthuist, was a member of the Dubuque Recreationn Commission.