Haley , Nettie and Kenneth

HALEY, MEYERS, PLANDA, COON

Posted By: carol (email)
Date: 8/19/2005 at 14:49:54

Sabula Mother and son killed as Auto leaves Highway 67

Mrs Martin(Nettie Coon) Haley,41, was instantly killed and her son, Sgt, Kenneth W. Haley,20, Fatally injured about 4:40 o'clock Thursday afternoon when the 1951 ford car owned and operated by the youth left Highway 67, five miles south of this city and strikng a culvert, plunged through the air and smashed into an embankment after turning over. As near as we can learn the first person on the scene of the accident was the driver of a Clinton monument firm truck who rushed to the Francis Behan home and asked Mrs Behan to call the sheriff and an ambulance.The _.E Allen ambulance from Sabula was soon on the scene and Mr. Allen took Kenneth Haley to Mercy hospital,
Clinton where the young man died just as the hospital was reached.
Joseph Bailey who gave the hospital a Chicago address, was a passenger in the car and received multiple cuts and bruises and has since been a patient in Mercy hospital. He had been employed with a Milwaukee railroad extra gang installing switches between Sabula and Clinton where new and heavier rails are to replace the old steel.

All three occupants were thrown from the car, which was a total wreck. Mrs Haley was dead when the first persons arrived at the scene of the accident. Sheriff Marvin Bruhn and Coroner L.O. Riggert , of Clinton investigated the accident and stated that the car was evidently going at a high rate of speed when it veered off the paving a few feet south of the resident of Kenneth Helfert, just as the car approached a curve at the top of the hill. The bobies of the victims were brought to the Allen funeral home in this city, where a double funeral was held Sunday afternoon with the Rev. Ivan Boyd, pastor of St. Peter's church , officiating. The remains of the mother and son were laid to rest in St. Peter's cemetery with full military rites ............ for Sgt. Haley by memebers of Misssisippi Post No 74, , the American Legion. Pallbearers for Mrs. Haley were William and Howard Meyers, Ed and Jack Planda, P.A. Schroeder and Frank Doyle. For Sgt. Haley the following ex-service men served; Joe S. Whitney, Don Davids, Eddie Marburger, G.E. Parsons, Edward Bess and John R Thompson, The flowers were cared for by Mesdames Emma Ferris , Mayme Murray and Lawrence Bell.
source Sabual gazette
Death date July 19 1951