Irma (Cummings) Wismer (1899-1932)

CUMMINGS, WISMER, STRATTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/18/2021 at 17:53:49

From Nevada Evening Journal September 26, 1932 (page 1)

MAXWELL GIRL MET DEATH WHEN PLANES COLLIDED

MRS. JAMES WISMER WAS FORMERLY IRMA CUMMINGS OF MAXWELL

Special to the Journal.
Maxwell, Sept. 26--Mrs. James Wismer, 29, one of four people killed in a midair airplane collision over Los Angeles, Sunday, was a former Maxwell girl and has numerous relatives in Story county.

According to word received here by relatives, Mrs. Wismer, her husband James Wismer, 32, Rollo G. Cadien, 25, and James E. Hill, 31, all of Los Angeles, were killed when the sudden and unexpected banking of two planes took place in midair over Los Angeles.

The accident occurred 400 feet above a residential district close to the Los Angeles eastside airport.

The two planes, Wismer piloting one and Cadien the other, banked sharply apparently unaware of each other's close proximity.

For a moment they clung together in midair, and the hurtled to the ground, all of the four occupants being killed instantly in the fall.

Mrs. Wismer was known here as a girl as Miss Irma Cummings, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Nancy Cummings.

Mr. and Mrs. Wismer, both of whom met their death in the tragic accident, leave a 6 year old son.

Besides this son and the mother, she leaves a sister Mrs. Eunice Stratton and a brother Glen Cummings of near Collins, a brother Clarence of near Maxwell and a brother and sister in Nebraska.