KOSTER, Marlin L. 1922-1957

KOSTER, LOEW

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/7/2009 at 23:59:11

#1 of 4 items:

Wreck Kills
Farmer Near
St. Ansgar

ST. ANSGAR - Marlin Koster, 34-year-old farmer southeast of St. Ansgar, was instantly killed in a one-car automobile accident about 10 p.m. Tuesday on County S Road a half mile south of St. Ansgar, according to Mitchell County Sheriff Harry Horn.

It was Mitchell County's fourth highway fatality of 1957.

Koster died of a broken neck, Sheriff Horn said Koster, alone, apparently lost control of his car and it left the road, traveled 169 yards before coming to a stop right side up.

Koster was found on the floorboards of the car. The accident occurred between the Edward Feldt farm and Immanual Lutheran Cemetery.

The victim was born on a farm near St. Ansgar, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koster, and was graduated from St. Ansgar High School.

He is survived by his parents, five children, Ronnie, Connie, Dickie, Rita and Rodney, raging in age from 14 years to 6 months; also two brothers and three sisters.

The body was taken to the Schreder -Houg Funeral Home here pending arrangements.

[Waterloo Courier, Wednesday, September 4, 1957]
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#2:

St. Ansgar Man Killed
as Car Hits In-Drive

ST. ANSGAR, Iowa — A St. Ansgar area farmer was fatally injured when his car left the road and crashed into an in-drive embankment Tuesday night.

Killed was Marlin Koster, who would have been 35 Sunday. He was driving alone on County Road S when his car left the road between the Edward Feldt farm and Immanuel Cemetery, about one half mile south of St. Ansgar.

Mitchell County Sheriff Harry Horn said the car left the road, veered into the ditch and traveled 169 yards before hitting the in-drive. Koster died instantly of a broken neck, Horn said.

Koster was born on a farm east of St. Ansgar and operated one of the family farms east of St. Ansgar. This is the fourth fatal accident in Mitchell County this year.

[Austin Daily Herald, Wednesday, September 4, 1957]

NOTE:
The article above says he would have turned 35 on Sunday, so his date of birth must have been Sept. 8, 1922.

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#3:

His Cemetery information says his middle name is "L." and burial was on September 7, 1957.

KOSTER, Marlin L. 1922 -- September 7, 1957

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#4:

Photo below is from his high school graduation in 1940.

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