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HOERMANN, EBEL, GAUDIAN

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 3/8/2016 at 10:09:42

Car Accident takes Life of Connie Hoermann

Two Others Seriously Injured In Crash at Country Intersection Near Germantown

A two-car accident at the intersection one mile east of Germantown shortly before 11:00 p. m. Monday night took the life of 15-year-old Connie Hoermann, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Wilbert Hoermann of near Germantown. Critically injured were her sister, Phyllis, 17, driver of the Hoermann car. Also seriously injured was Donald Brockmann, 17, who was alone in the other car.

Chest injuries were determined to have caused Connie's death. Phyllis, rushed to the Sioux Valley hospital at Cherokee by Gaudian ambulance, was in critical condition suffering from severe lacerations of ear and neck, a broken right arm and a leg injury, though the exact extent of her injuries could not be determined immediately. By Wednesday morning her condition was much improved and her injuries less serious than they were originally thought to be.
Brockmann, taken to St. Joseph hospital in Sioux City by Baumgarten ambulance, will be in surgery Thursday to set broken bones. Brockmann's jaw was broken in five places, his left hand crushed, his left wrist broken, the right ankle broken and his left ankle badly swollen and its condition undetermined. Donald is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Brockmann.

The Brockmann car approached the intersection from the north as he was returning home from Paullina. The Hoermann car was coming from the east as they were returning home from Paullina and had stopped to let out friends at the Eugene Schuknecht farm.

The Brockmann car was damaged beyond repair and the Hoermann car badly damaged when the cars slammed together in the middle of the graveled intersection. The Brockmann car went on into the ditch and the Hoermann car spun around throwing its occupants out. One or both of the girls were thought to have gone through the windshield of the car.

Despite the seriousness of his injuries Brockmann made his way to the Edward Hellmann farm home several rods west of the corner, from where doctors and ambulances were called. Eugene Schuknecht, living just to the east of the corner, was first on the scene, accompanied by Milan Lehmann. Others soon arrived from Germantown to give assistance.

Funeral Services

Funeral services for Connie Hoermann will be held today (Thursday) at St. John Lutheran church at 2:00. The Rev. H. C. Bentrup will officiate. Interment will be in St John cemetery, Germantown.

Paullina Times, Paullina, Iowa, August 16, 1962, p1

Connie Hoermann, Accident Victim, Services Thursday

Funeral services for Hoermann, 15-year-old of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Hoermann, who lost her life in a car accident on August 13, were held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. at St. John Lutheran church, Germantown following a short service, at Gaudian Funeral Home at 1:30. The deceased died instantly in a two-car accident that also injured her sister, Phyllis and the driver of the other car, Donald Brockmann. Connie would have been a sophomore at Paullina high school this fall. Brockmann will be a senior. Phyllis was a member of the 1962 graduating class.

Pallbearers were: Donald Hattermann, David Pauling, David Meyer, Dennis Koehlmoos, Gary Schulz and James Beerman. Mr and Mrs. Lorcnz Stoever were in charge of flowers. Just As I Am and Asleep In Jesus were sung by the St. John ladies choir.

Interment was in St. John Lutheran cemetery at Germantown. Connie Hoermann was born May 7, 1947 in Caledonia township, O'Brien county, Iowa, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Hoermann. She received her elementary education at St. John Lutheran school, Germantown, and was a student at Paullina high school at the time of her death on August 13.

The deceased was active in FH A, Walther League and other church activities and was an organist at St. John Lutheran church.

She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Phyllis and Peggy, her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Ebel, Paullina, Mrs. Emil Hoermann, Germantown, great grandparents, Carl Gaudian Sr. at Sutherland and Mrs. John Ebel, Germantown.

Paullina Times, Paullina, Iowa, August 23, 1962, p9