Linda Marie Curtis Fothergill 1950-1985

FOTHERGILL, CURTIS, MOLLER, BRUNING

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/15/2014 at 21:21:53

Armstrong Woman Killed
Alton – A 35 year-old rural Armstrong woman was killed in a two vehicle crash one mile south of Alton on Iowa Highway 60 at 6 p.m. Thursday [December 26, 1985] night.

According to the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office, Linda M. (Mrs. James) Fothergill was a passenger in a car driven by her brother, Joseph E. Curtis, 30, of Spencer. The report states that Curtis lost control of his vehicle, which crossed the center line of the highway and slid sideways into the path of a car driven by Paul Hanson of Dawson, Minn.

Curtis and Fothergill were pronounced dead on arrival at the Orange City Community Hospital, while three year-old Amy Fothergill was hospitalized with leg injuries. Hanson and his wife, Jolene, along with their three children, Connie, Mary and Todd, were all taken to the Orange City Community Hospital, where the Hanson children were treated and released. Paul Hanson is listed in stable condition and Jolene Hanson is being held for observation for a possible concussion, according to hospital officials.

The injured were transported by the Alton Rescue Squad and Orange City Ambulance. An investigation into the accident is continuing, according to sheriff’s officials. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 28, 1985)

Linda Fothergill
Armstrong – Memorial services for Mrs. James (Linda) Fothergill, 35, of Armstrong will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church in Armstrong with Rev. David Wagner officiating. Interment will be in the Armstrong Grove Cemetery at Armstrong. She died Thursday, Dec. 26, 1985 near Alton, Iowa in an automobile accident.

The Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Homes are in charge of the services. There will be no visitation.

Linda Marie Curtis was born March 28, 1950, the daughter of Joe and Fern (Moller) Curtis, Sr., in Heron, S.D. She received her education in the Vermillion, S.D. school system. She was united in marriage to James Fothergill on March 17, 1978 in Sioux City. She lived in Spencer until her marriage, and then moved to the couple’s farm south of Armstrong, where she farmed with her husband.

Survivors include her husband, James, of Armstrong, her mother, Mrs. Fern Bruning, of Yankton, S.D.; and two children: a son, Jeffery Charles and a daughter, Amy Louise, both at home.

She was preceded in death by her father and one brother. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 30, 1985)