BALDNER, Merle A. 1939-1963

BALDNER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/6/2010 at 00:04:44

#1 of 3 items:

A Saturday victim was Merle Baldner, 24, St. Ansgar, who was killed as he returned home after
renewing his drivers license at Mason City. Officers said Baldner's car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it slammed into a freight train at a crossing one mile east of Toeterville.

[Ames Daily Tribune, Monday, September 30, 1963]

[See also, same article in Cedar Rapids Gazette,
Monday, September 30, 1963]
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#2:

TOETERVILLE, IOWA — Prayer services for Merle Baldner, 23, who was killed in a car-train crash Saturday a mile east of Toeterville, will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Schroeder and Houg funeral home at St. Ansgar, followed by rites at 2 p.m. in St. Peter's Lutheran church at Toeterville; burial in the church cemetery.

[ Waterloo Courier, Monday, September 30, 1963 ]

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#3:

St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Toeterville
BALDNER, Merle A. born: 1939, died: 1963

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