Ellison, Charles Maxwell (1940-1955)

ELLISON, CONAWAY, DOSS, NIXON, MUTSCHLER

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Daily Freeman Journal, Monday, January 3, 1955

14-Year Old Williams Farm Youth Dies after Collision

A 14-year old Williams boy, just being returned to his home from a Story City hospital, was Hamilton county's first traffic fatality of 1955, Sheriff E.R. Lear reported today.

Charles Maxwell Ellison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ellison, living northeast of Williams, died at 4 a.m. Sunday in Mary Greeley hospital of injuries suffered in a crash at a gravel road intersection northeast of Ellsworth.

Sheriff Lear said the youth was a passenger in a car driven by Irvin Nixon, his brother-in-law, whose auto and one driven by Allen Mortenson, 32, of Radcliffe, collided at 9:30 a.m. Saturday one mile east and four miles north of Ellsworth. Mortenson was heading west at the time and Nixon was going north towards Williams.

Both autos were demolished, the sheriff said.

Nixon, his son, Ronald, 17, and Mortenson were all taken to Mary Greeley hospital at Ames for treatment of injuries. Ronald Nixon was apparently the most seriously injured of the three.

The Nixons, who farm southeast of Williams, had been to the Story City hospital to pick up Charles Ellison who had been receiving treatment there for injuries suffered from a fall Thursday.

He was hurt when he attempted to jump off a load of ground feed to catch hold of a basketball hoop on a corn crib at the Ellison farm northeast of Williams.

His parents left a week ago on a vacation trip to California.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellison returned from the west coast last night, flying to Des Moines.

Funeral services are pending at Williams with Robbins funeral home in charge.

Charles Maxwell Ellison, son of Guy O. Ellison and Marietta Z. Conaway Ellison, was born May 25, 1940, at Iowa Falls. He attended the Williams school and was a member of the Freshman class.

He is survived by his parents, two brothers and three sisters: Chief Petty Officer F. R. Ellison of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, William D. Ellison, Fort Riley, Kansas, Mrs. Caroline Doss and Mrs. Irma Nixon, both of Williams, and Mrs. Edith Mutschler of Boone; his grandmother, Mrs. Kate Conaway of Riverside, Calif.; 11 nephews and 3 nieces.

He was a member of the Williams Boosters 4-H club and the M.Y.F. of the Williams Methodist church.

Daily Freeman Journal, Tuesday, January 4, 1955

Funeral services for Charles Maxwell Ellison, 14, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Methodist church in Williams. The Rev. C. T. Scott and Rev. A. B. Gedye will officiate. Burial will be in the Blairsburg cemetery with Robbins funeral home in charge.

Charles Ellison died Sunday morning at Mary Greeley hospital in Ames of injuries suffered in an auto accident Saturday morning near Ellsworth.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ellison, living northeast of Williams, he is survived by his parents, two brothers and three sisters.

He was born May 25, 1940 at Iowa Falls, and was a freshman at Williams high school.