Frank Floerchinger (d. 1956)

FLOERCHINGER, SLAGER, PIDIMA, MCWILLIAMS, CLOSE, WILLIAMS, STEPHENSON, SIMS, SMITH

Posted By: Deb Bennett-Jónsson (email)
Date: 9/9/2010 at 23:33:08

Newspaper: Unknown
Posted: 1956

Former Resident Dies in Collision

Victor: Frank Floerchinger, of West Branch, former Iowa County man, was fatally injured and Mrs. Floerchinger seriously hurt when their automobile was struck by a truck at Cameron, Texas, Friday.

Mr. Floerchinger suffered a broken back, broken neck and a punctured lung and lived only two hours after the crash.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in West Branch Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. Floerchinger was brought in an ambulance to an Iowa City hospital, where she is recovering from a possible fractured hip and other injuries.

The Floerchingers are believed to have been on a land excursion and were accompanied by a Cedar Rapids couple and a Texas man, who was driving at the time of the accident.

The deceased man was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Floerchinger. He was first married to Lena Slager, his second wife being Helen Pidima of Guernsey.

Farmed In Lincoln

He farmed for a time in Lincoln Township and resided for a number of years near Deep River prior to moving to West Branch.

Among those who survive in addition to his wife are five children, Mrs. Inez McWilliams of Deep River, Mrs. Lola Close of Durant, Melvin of Davenport; Bethel of Iowa City and Frank Merlin of West Branch; two step-children, Mrs. Charles Williams of Deep River and Orville Stephenson of Traer; two brothers, Jake of Guernsey and Mart of Victor; three sisters, Mrs. Katie Sims of Marengo, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Des Moines and Frances Floerchinger of Belle Plaine and six grandchildren.

The Cedar Rapids woman received a broken leg and the driver of the car, a skull fracture as a result of the crash, which took Mr. Floerchinger’s life.