James Roy "Jimmy" Plattenberger

PLATTENBERGER, MCHUGH, PETRUSCH

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 3/29/2017 at 12:42:07

The Marion Sentinel Thursday January 17, 1946
Eight-Year-Old Boy, Former Resident Is Accident Victim
Little Jimmy Plattenberger and his mother were on their way to a neighborhood grocerty in Cedar Rapids, when she remembered they had not brought the exchange milk bottle. Jimmy was sent back and came running with the bottle, when he slipped on an icy spot, fell hard, breaking the bottle and cutting a deep gash in his left hand that severed some tendons, and a gash on his wrist that opened an artery. By the time a taxi had delivered him to the hospital had had lost a lot of blood, and three hours later was dead in spite of blood transfusions and every aid the surgeons could give. Death was due in part to shock.
The mother was taken to the hospital and treated for shock.
James Roy Plattenberger was born in Cedar Rapids January 3, 1938, and lived in Lisbon before coming to Marion,s tarting his school here, but moved to Cedar Rapids with his mother last September, and was in second grade at Taylor school there living at 806 Eighth street, S.W. He had attended St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday school here.
Surviving is his mother, Mrs. James McHugh of Cedar Rapids; his father, Glenn Plattenberger of Lisbon; his sister, Shirley Ann Plattenberger of Cedar Rapids; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Petrusch of Marion and Mrs. Nellie Plattenberger of Lisbon.
Funeral services were held on Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Yocom chapel in Marion in charge of the Rev. Carl T. Wuerffel of St. Paul's Lutheran church. Burial was made in Cedar Memorial park.

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