Westrum, Dick O (1940-1981)

WESTRUM, DICK, PRINGLE, QUICK, EYMAN

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Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
May 18, 1981

Dick Westrum, Stratford car dealer, killed

By Eric Woodson
Freeman-Journal | City Editor

STRATFORD - Two area men were killed and five persons were injured in separate traffic accidents Friday.

A grinding head-on collision shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday two miles east of Dayton on Highway 175 claimed the lives of Stratford businessman Dick Westrum, 40, and a Dayton man, Charles A. Porter, 21. Three passengers in the Porter vehicle were injured.

Westrum, the owner of a Chrysler-Plymouth dealership in Stratford, was alone in his car.

Iowa Highway Patrolmen and Webster County Sheriff's Department deputies at the scene said Westrum's eastbound vehicle crossed the center line and struck the westbound Porter vehicle.

Following the impact, Westrum's car remained on the road. Porter's vehicle continued its course another 250 feet before it slid down an embankment and rolled on its side approximately 65 feet from the highway.

Westrum and Porter were dead at the scene. Their bodies were pinned in the crushed vehicles.

SERVICES TUESDAY

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at Foster Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Russell and David Field officiating. Burial will be at South Marion Cemetery at Stratford.

Dick O. Westrum, son of Harold and Cleo Dick Westrum was born Sept. 8, 1940, in the Hamilton County Hospital in Webster City. He was reared and educated in Stratford and attended the Webster City and Fort Dodge Community Colleges.
He was married to Kathy Pringle Dec. 1, 1961.

He was owner and operator of Westrum Used Cars and in 1967 he acquired a dealership and his business became known as Westrum Chrysler, Pontiac and Dodge.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Tyler and Chad, both of Stratford; his mother, Cleo Westrum of Stratford; two brothers, Noel of Stratford and Tim of Granger; and two sisters Stephanie (Mrs. Stan) Quick of Storm Lake and Sylvia (Mrs. Doyle) Eyman of Fargo, N. D.

He was preceded in death by his father.

He was a member of the Calvary United methodist Church of Stratford.