Mrs. Blance Ferris

FERRIS, HULBERT, ORIN, HILL, THORSON, SCHNEIDER, GILLILAN, KAUFFMAN, MARSHALL, HARBAUGH, PHELPS, BRADLEY, CREE

Posted By: Connie l. Ellis (email)
Date: 10/19/2010 at 23:46:49

Source:Dubuque Telegraph Herald newspaper clipping

Contributor:Connie L. Ellis (Not related - the clipping was in the personal papers of my mother. My parents were friends with Dean Ferris, the son of Mrs. Ferris).

MAN,WOMAN KILLED IN FOGGY CRASHES

Two elderly Dubuqueland residents were killed in fog-linked accidents yesterday.*March 3, 1970* Dead are: Albert Hulbert, 74, of West Union, Iowa and Mrs. Blanche Ferris, 73, of Lancaster, Wisconsin.

Note: Information on Albert Hulbert can be found in the Fayette County obituary section under the surname of Hulbert

Mrs. Ferris was a passenger in the car driven by her husband, Orin, 73, returning from Fennimore, Wisconsin where Mrs. Ferris reportedly had an eye appointment. As the car approached the northern Lancaster city limits about 6:15 p.m. the south-bound vehicle went out of control and struck a concrete building. Visibility at the time of the accident was only 50 feet according to Lancaster police. Ferris was taken to the Lancaster Memorial hospital where his condition is listed as poor. Mrs. Ferris is the first traffic fatality in Lancaster since May 1966 and the third in Grant County this year. Services for Mrs. Ferris will be on Saturday, March 7, 1970 at 2 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery. Friends may call after 2:p.m. on Friday at the O'Rourke Funeral Home in Lancaster where Rebekah services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday.Surviving besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Harold Hill of Dodgeville,Wisconsin, Mrs. Arne Thorson of Fountain City, Wisconsin, Mrs. Leo Schneider of Potosi, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Stuart Gillilan of Lancaster; three sons, Donald of Monticello, Wisconsin, Arthur of Cornell, Wisconsin, and Dean of Lancaster; 36 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Emmett Kauffman of Edgewood, Iowa and Ray Kauffman of Strawberry Point, Iowa; five sisters, Mrs. LaVern Marshall of Glen Haven, Wisconsin; Mrs. Lloyd Harbaugh of Garnavillo, Iowa, Mrs. Bertha Phelps of Colesburg, Iowa, Mrs. Merle Bradley of Clinton, Iowa and Mrs. Cora Cree of Oelwein, Iowa.

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