Zelma Foster Accidentally Killed

FOSTER, GOTT, GORSUCH

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/9/2013 at 15:51:07

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Nov. 30, 1928

ZELMA FOSTER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

Met Death in Accident Near Bethel Friday Afternoon.

Miss Zelma Foster, 30 years old, who made her home with her mother, Mrs. Elijah Foster near Bethel was accidentally killed Friday afternoon shortly before dark when she was struck by an automobile driven by Willis Gott. She died about fifteen minutes after the accident occurred without regaining consciousness.

Mr. Gott was returning from the south Browntown school where he had been after his children and turned out to pass a car driven by Clay Gorsuch, a brother-in-law of Miss Foster, the car coming out of the Foster driveway. Miss Foster, not seeing the Gott car stepped in front of it. She was caught on the bumper of the car and was dragged about three-fourths of a city block before the car could be stopped.