EVERTS, Suzanna 1948-1975

EVERTS, BARTENHAGEN, HARDMAN, SCHLUTZ

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Date: 3/7/2017 at 19:12:26

Pleasant Valley Township Woman Fatally Hurt In Cedar Falls Mishap

A 27-year-old rural Parkersburg woman, Mrs. James (Suzanne) Everts, died in a Cedar Falls hospital at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, an hour after she received head and chest injuries in a three vehicle collision on 27th Street about 1 1/2 miles west of Cedar Falls.

Also fatally injured in the crash was Mrs. Oakkie (Ruth) Mehmen, 47, of Cedar Falls.

A Cedar Falls man, David Shephard, 19, has been charged with manslaughter and OMVUI in connection with the accident.

According to authorities, Shephard attempted to pass a pickup driven by Mrs. Mehmen's husband and crashed head-on into a station wagon driven by Mrs. Everts.

Mrs. Everts' 10-month-old son, Corey, and a second passenger in the Everts vehicle, Mrs. Carrie Everts, 49, of Parkersburg, are hospitalized in Waterloo.

Mehmen and a passenger in the Shephard car, Karen Ceilley of Cedar Falls, were taken to a Cedar Falls hospital.

Shephard sustained only minor injuries and was not hospitalized. He was being held in Black Hawk county jail on $10,325 bond at last report.

The Dike emergency ambulance was summoned to the scene on a mutual aid call, and transported two of the injured to local hospitals.

Funeral services for Suzanne Everts were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pleasant Valley Reformed Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.

She is survived by her husband; a son, Corey James; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schutz of Grand View; a brother, Carl Bartenhagen of Urbandale; two sisters, Mrs. Keith (Elaine) Grouwinkel of West Liberty, and Mrs. Lindy (Joan) Woods of Grand View; a step brother, Robert Schutz of Columbus Junction; and maternal grandmother, Mabel Hardman of Wapello.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 July 1975, pg 1

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Suzanne Everts Obituary

Suzanne Everts, age 27, died Sunday afternoon at Schoitz Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, as a result of a car accident shortly before in Cedar Falls. Also traveling with her was her mother-in-law, Mrs. William Everts, and 10 1/2 month old son, Corey James.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Pleasant Valley Reformed Church, rural Holland, and burial was in the church cemetery, with Rev. Carl Regnerus officiating.

Suzanne Everts was born the daughter of Walder and Myrtle Hardman Bartenhagen, April 13, 1948 in Muscatine county. She graduated from L.M. Community high school, Letts, Iowa, Muscatine Junior College and Iowa State University, receiving her degree in Family Environment. She later worked as a social worker in Ida county, and as an accountant for GOMACO in Ida Grove.

She married James Everts November 27, 1971, in Grand View, Iowa. They made their home in Ida Grove for three years, and in March of 1974, they moved to their farm in rural Parkersburg.

Survived by her husband James and son Corey James; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schlutz, Grand View; two sisters, Elaine, Mrs. Keith Grouwinkel, West Liberty, and Joan, Mrs. Lindy Woods, Grandview; a brother, Carl Bartenhagen of Urbandale; a step-brother, Robert Schlutz of Columbus Junction; and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Hardman, Wapello. She was preceded in death by her father in 1969.

Engelkes Funeral Home in Parkersburg was in charge of arrangements.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 July 1975, pg 2