Frank Edgar Downs (1934)
CRAWFORD, DOWNS, HOLLINGSWORTH
Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 5/24/2007 at 12:49:08
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 5, 1934
Page 5F. E. Downs Dies of Injuries
Tuesday, March 27th Frank Downs, a farmer living one-fourth mile east of St. Charles was fatally injured while working in the Huglin timber north of town. He, with Rex and Kenneth Downs were cutting a tree down which fell on another tree, breaking a limb off which fell on Mr. Downs knocking him down and crushing him. He was rushed to the Methodist hospital in Des Moines, where an X-ray disclosed a broken collar bone and five ribs, some of the ribs being broken in two pieces. Several doctors assisted with his care but pneumonia developed and he passed away early Sunday morning, April 1st after several days of intense suffering.
He is survived by his wife, five sons and two daughters and seven grandchildren. Five of his children, Cash, Carl, Mrs. Mary Crawford, Rex and Don are married and live in the vicinity of St. Charles, and Dwight and Florence are still at home. Other members of his immediate family are his five brothers, C. M. Downs of Kansas, Alfred, Cash, James and Walter Downs all of this place and one sister, Mrs. Jane Hollingsworth of Nebraska.
Mr. Downs was 64 years of age, a prominent Mason and had lived his entire life near St. Charles, the old Downs homestead being only a short distance from his own home. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in St. Charles.
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