Omer Everett Hess (1966)
HESS, KALHOE, LINDSEY, MCKIBBEN, SHROYER, WATKINS
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Date: 11/17/2012 at 16:24:11
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 13, 1966
Page 3Injuries Fatal to Omer E. Hess
Omer E. Hess, 83, of Lorimor, died Tuesday, July 13 at Creston. His death resulted from injuries received in an automobile accident June 30.
Mr. Hess was a native of West Virginia, where he was born at Silver Springs, June 20, 1883, but had spent his life farming in Minnesota and Iowa. He had lived near Lorimor in recent years.
Surviving are his wife, the former Ethel McKibben; two daughters, Mrs. Courle Kalhoe of Rochester, Minnesota and Mrs. H. V. Shroyer of Des Moines; four grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Matt Lindsey and Mrs. T. O. Watkins, both of Des Moines.
________________________The Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa
Saturday, July 16, 1966
Page 7, Column 1Winterset Rites For Crash Victim
WINTERSET—Funeral services for Omer Hess, 83, of rural Lorimor, were held at Winterset Thursday.
Hess, a retired farmer, was injured in an accident involving three vehicles in Creston on June 30. He died at a nursing home at Creston last Tuesday.
The accident in which he was injured occurred at highway 34 and Elm street in Creston.
Hess was going south on Elm street and pulled onto highway 34 to turn east in front of a loaded milk truck and trailer driven by Dale E. Giles of Eagleville, Mo. Giles swerved to try to miss the Hess car but hit the car and glanced off. His truck ran head-on into a car in which Vincent C. Sullivan, mayor of Corning, his wife, and his parents were riding.
Hess was thrown out of his car as it spun around into the driveway of a service station.
Mayor Sullivan and his father suffered only cuts and bruises but their wives were more seriously injured. Both women had severe cuts and bruises and the elder Mrs. Sullivan suffered a broken arm.
Only the milk truck driver was not hurt in the accident.
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