Gagnon, Miss Ruth (Died 1950)

GAGNON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/30/2008 at 13:32:09

CRASH INJURIES FATAL TO RUTH GAGNON

Funeral services for Miss Ruth Gagnon, 19, Hinton, who died Saturday due to injuries suffered in a car-truck accident last week Tuesday on highway 75 near LeMars, were at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at Wesley Methodist Church in Leeds with Rev. H.C. Culver officiating, and burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sioux City.

Miss Gagnon suffered a skull fracture and died Saturday night in a Sioux City hospital without regaining consciousness.

Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Grace Gagnon of Leeds; 4 brothers, Thomas, Frederick, Kenneth and Sylvester, all of Sioux City; and 4 sisters, Mrs. Jas. Meyers, Mrs. Jas. Hamilton, Miss Bernice Gagnon and Mrs. H.D. Voigtlander, all of Sioux City.

~Source: Hinton, Iowa, newspaper dated April 20, 1950