Wevik, Leonard B. 1901-1963

WEVIK, ENGELBRECHT

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 4/17/2012 at 18:44:03

REMSEN POLICE CHIEF LEONARD V. WEVIK, 62, SUFFERS FATAL HEART ATTACK IN SQUAD CAR. Vehicle Jumps Curb and Strikes Tree.
Remsen Police Chief Leonard V. Wevik, 62, was dead on the arrival of a physician about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at the wheel of the town’s police car.
According to E. F. Kieffer of the Remsen Bell-Enterprise, the police car jumped a curb on the east side of the public school building and struck a large tree.
The police chief was returning from the east edge of Remsen, where he had been engaged in clearing traffic after a fire alarm, when he was stricken. The blaze was a brush fire at the Darrell Pecks farm.
Chief Wevik joined the two-man Remsen police department June 1, 1937, serving as police chief most of that time, Mr. Kieffer reported.
Born April 26, 1901, at Beresford, S. D., Mr. Wevik moved to Remsen 40 years ago as a farmhand. His marriage to Olga Engelbrecht took place Oct. 5, 1929, at Dakota City, Neb.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Parrish of South Sioux City, Neb.; a month-old granddaughter, Brenda Lee Parrish; three sisters and a brother.
The body was taken to the Moeller funeral home, Remsen. Funeral arrangements are pending. – Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Nov. 6, 1963, page 1.