Street, Paul Monroe 1932 - 1957

STREET, PIDGEON, HAWKS, HAIN, WEINMANN, BOYUM, BIELSKI

Posted By: C Street (email)
Date: 4/15/2007 at 22:51:01

Paul Street killed in the auto crash

Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Hesper Friends Church for Paul Street, 24, who was killed in a car-truck crash near Newton, Iowa, Thursday, April 25.

Miss Naomi Olsen officiated. Burial was in the Hesper Public Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Roger Gossman, Floyd Griswold, Amos Moore, Lyle Masters, Fay Harvey and Allen Himes.

Mr. Street, who was employed at the Maytag company in Newton was enroute to his home at Center east of Newton at about 5:30 p.m., when his car was hit head-on by a semi-truck driven by Francis Matney, 17, of Gilman, Iowa. The trucks swerved to the left as Street's car approached and rammed it nearly halfway through the car, pushing it 150 feet before coming to a stop in a ditch.

Mr. Street was born July 5, 1932, on a farm near Hesper, the son of Granville and Avis (Hawks) Street. He attended the Hesper public school and was graduated from Mable high school, later attending Penn College at Oskaloosa Iowa.

On October 19, 1952, he married Bertha Lou Pidgeon at Salem Iowa, in a ceremony performed by the late Arthur Moon. At the time of his death he was a member of the Center friends church and was clerk of its monthly meeting. He was also assistant superintendent and a teacher in the Sunday school.

Survivors are his wife; two sons, Eric and John; his parents; one brother, John of Chicago, Illinois; four sisters, Mrs. Robert (Neva) Hain of Rochester, Mrs. Vernon (Ruth) Weinmann of Winona, Mrs. Ferd Boyum of Pilot Mound, Karen at home, and his paternal grandmother Mrs. Minnie Bielski of Hesper.

From a Mabel, Minnesota newspaper.

News item

Paula Monroe Street, the 24-year-old father of two young children, was killed in an automobile accident Thursday evening when his car was hit head-on by a semi-trailer truck, which smashed the entire front end of Street's machine back on top of him.

The accident occurred about 6 p.m. on Highway 6 west of Newton a few hundred yards from the Skunk River bridge.

Driver of the truck was Charles A. Matney, 17 of Gilman. The truck was owned by his father, Francis L. Matney, also of Gilman. Street lived in the Center Friends parsonage in the Amboy neighborhood east of Newton.

Sheriff Ed Scoville said Matney's truck swerved to the wrong side of the road just before the vehicles collided knocking Street's car off the pavement and down an embankment 143 feet from the point of impact.

Street was pianned in the car and two wreckers were required to pull the vehicles apart in order to free Street. Scoville said that a Grinnell physician, Dr. Parrish, came by while they were trying to remove Street from his machine and that he pronounced Street dead before he could be removed from the crushed automobile.

A charge of failing to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic will be filed against young Matney, Scoville said.

Scoville said that when Matney was first treated he could not recall anything that happened after he passed the Skunk River bridge. Later on, he was not able to recall events, from the time he left Lone Tree, still earlier.

Witnesses who were approaching the scene before the accident told the sheriff that no other vehicles were near when the accident occurred and that the highway was dry and straight.

Bernley Noble and Max Schmeling of the Highway Patrol were at the accident scene in addition to local officers. Schmeling said that the great number of persons who gathered at the accident scene impeded the wreckers' arrival at the accident.

Funeral services for the accident victim will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Center friends Church conducted by the Reverend Nelson Murdoch. A second service will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Hesper. Burial will be in Hesper (Public Cemetery.)

He is survived by his wife, birth of Lou; two sons, Paul Eric, 4 and John Alvin, 2; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Street of Hesper; four sisters, Mrs. Robert Hain, Rochester, Minnesota; Mrs. Vernon Weinman, Winona, Minnesota, Ferdie Boyum, Lanesboro Minnesota, and Miss Karen Street of Hesper.
Other survivors are a brother, John of Chicago, and his grandmother, Mrs. W. O. Bielski of Hesper.
He was born in Hesper on July 5, 1932. He attended high school at Mabel, Minnesota and William Penn College in Oskaloosa for two years. He married the former Bertha Lou Pidgeon in Salem on October 21, 1952.
The deceased was a member of the Center Friends Church and served on the board of the church softball league. He managed the softball team for the Friendly Methodists. He was employed at the Maytag company as a schedule clerk.

Photos of the vehicles accompany the article.

Newspaper unkown. Article from a scrapbook of Iva Quaintance Street.

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