Kounkel, Lawrence 1920-1939

KOUNKEL

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Date: 4/15/2008 at 21:45:18

Hinton Progress
September 14, 1939

BROTHERS KILLED IN CAR-TRUCK CRASH

Lawrence Kounkel, 19, and Fred Kounkel, 17, of Lincoln township, are due to
a car-truck accident on highway 75, between Leeds and the county line, which
happened about 3:30 Wednesday morning.

Three other occupants of the car suffered less serious injuries. They are
Margie Casper, 18, Bernard Muecke, 18, and Merlin Ideker, 17, all of Lincoln
township.

It was reported the car was enroute north on No. 75, and met the truck,
drive by Herman C. Rohr, with which it sideswiped. According to reports the
car swerved and finally left the road and landed right side up in the ditch,
and the truck overturned but the driver escaped serious injury.

Lawrence was killed almost instantly, and Fred died Wednesday afternoon in a
Sioux City hospital where he had been rushed in an ambulance after the
accident.

At the hospital it was found that all of the injured had sustained head
injuries but not supposed to be serious.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, Sept. 15, from the home at
1:30, and from Trinity Lutheran Church at 2 o'clock.

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Hinton Progress
September 21, 1939

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR BROTHERS

Funeral services were conducted last Friday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran
Church for Lawrence and Fred Kounkel, who died last week Wednesday due to
injuries sustained in an automobile-truck accident which happened on highway
75 about a mile north of Leeds.

Lawrence Fred Edward Kounkel was born September 11, 1920, in Lincoln
township, Plymouth county, Iowa, and Fred Lewis Edward Kounkel was born
September 6, 1922, in Lincoln township, Plymouth county, Iowa. Both boys
were confirmed in the same class on March 21, 1937, by Rev. R.J. Torgler, in
Trinity Lutheran Church. They received their education in local schools and
were living at home where they assisted their parents in farming operations.

They leave to mourn their sudden death their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
John Kounkel; two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Clinton Richards, Roy,
Walter, Ralph and Viola Kounkel, all of Lincoln township, also their
maternal grandmother, Mrs. Augusta Mathwig.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the home at 1:30 and from
Trinity Lutheran Church at 2 o'clock, with Rev. H.D. Stahmer, officiating.
Burial was made in Trinity Lutheran Church cemetery.