DINGUS, Dwight L.: Died 1928

DINGUS

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 1/11/2017 at 03:28:02

**Handwritten: 1928

Birmingham Youth Victim of Deadly Monoxide Gas Fumes
(Birmingham Correspondence)

Dwight L. Dingus, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dingus, who live about three miles southeast of town, was found dead in his car at the Chas. Miranda oil station Monday morning at seven o'clock. He had been to see a friend west of town leaving there about 9:30. The car a Ford coupe, was seen by several passing the station between 10 and 11 o'clock, with engine funning and lights on, but supposing someone had driven in for water, no notice was taken of it and the body was not discovered until Mr. Miranda came down to open the station Monday morning and found him reclining in the seat of the car dead from gas fumes. He graduated from high school last year and was teaching at the Raney school north of town. He was an exemplary young man and numbers of his friends by his acquaintances. Besides his father and mother he is survived by one brother, Malcolm Dingus of Winfield and one sister, Ava Dingus, a student in high school. The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church Wdnesday(sp) at 2:30 o'clock.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book H, Page 65, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA