Paul L. FAUSER

FAUSER, HAMRICK, CLARK, NEFZGER, REED, EVERETT, PALMER

Posted By: Ron M Fauser (email)
Date: 6/29/2009 at 12:50:36

Fayette County Leader, Fayette, Iowa, Thursday, August 28, 1941, Page 1
PAUL L FAUSER
KILLED BY AUTO
Former Resident of Fayette Vicinity
Was Struck While on Duty In Oelwein
Fayette people were shocked to learn of the death on Saturday of Paul L. Fauser at Oelwein, who died from Injuries received when he was struck by an automobile while on duty as a flagman for the C.G.W. railway. The accident occurred at the railway crossing on South Frederick avenue about midnight. He was hit by a car driven by Ed Lohrman of Oelwein as he was standing in the middle of the street directing traffic. He was taken to the hospital and died soon afterward.
Coroner J. R. Wood of Wadena held an inquest Saturday afternoon. The jury decided that evidence of a possible degree of negligence on the part of Mr. Lohrman was insufficient to hold him, and he was discharged. It appeared that he was driving at about ten miles an hour when the accident occurred. Paul Linden Fauser was the son of Adolph and Ida Fauser and was born near Fayette, Sept. 1, 1898.
His youth was spent on a farm and he received his schooling in a rural school at Albany. He had been employed by the Great Western railroad for 18 years as a trainman, and for 2-1/2 years as flagman.
He was united in marriage to Miss Helen Wilbur of West Union on Dec. 3, 1920. To this union three children were born.
He is survived by his wife, Helen, by one daughter, Mrs. Abbie Stolfus of Oelwein and by two sons, Don Le-Roy and Harold Buddy, at home. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. May Palmer of Waterloo, by three brothers , Lester and Peter of Fayette, and Arthur of Oelwein; two half-sisters, Mrs. Henry Nefzger of Albany and Mrs. Wm. Reed of Maynard; two half - brothers, Charles Hamrick of Yacolt, Wash., and James Hamrick of Maynard. One brother, Grover, died eight years ago. The funeral was held Monday afternoon in the Methodist church at Oelwein, and burial was in the Fayette cemetery.