Iowa Old Press
The Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
June 13, 1930
YOUTH DIES IN LAKE HERE - Jack Wilton Drowned After Being
Stricken with Cramps
While swimming in Half Moon Lake with several companions
Thursday evening, Jack Wilton, 17 years old, was stricken
suddenly with cramps and was drowned. He lived at 504 South Iowa
street.
Capt. George Fallon and Patrolman Arthur Mummert and Henry
Schuldt dragged the lake with grappling hooks for more than two
hours before they recovered the body. Several persons near the
scene of the drowning dove for the body but failed to find it.
Wilton and several companions went to the lake Thursday
afternoon. He attempted to swim across the lake when he was
seized with cramps and began to sink, a witness of the drowning
said.
As he was sinking for the second time, Wilton screamed and Violet
Flick, 16 years old, 507 South Wall street, who had been standing
on the shore, dove into the waters. When she reached the place
where Wilton had been, the body had disappeared. He was drowned
in 15 feet of water and 30 feet from shore.
Charles Wilton, a younger brother of the drowned youth, went to
his brother’s assistance when he heard him scream.
Discovering that his brother had disappeared from the surface,
Charles ran to his brother’s car which had been parked
nearby, and started for help. As he was driving along a narrow
strip of road on the west side of the lake, he apparently lost
control of the car and it plunged into the lake. He escaped
drowning by jumping from the machine.
The body was taken to the Nelson-Berger funeral home where it is
being held pending completion of funeral arrangements.
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The Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Saturday, June 14, 1930
JOHN OTTO WILTON
Funeral services for John Otto Wilton, 17 years old, 504
South Iowa street, who drowned late Thursday afternoon in Half
Moon Lake after being stricken with cramps, will be held at 2
o’clock Monday afternoon in the home. Rev. Lowell O. Brodie,
of the Sioux City Gospel Tabernacle will officiate. Burial will
be in Graceland Park cemetery under the direction of the
Nelson-Berger funeral home.
Wilton was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilton of the South
Iowa street address. A younger brother, Charles Wilton, also
survives him. Wilton was born in Sioux City, August 1, 1912, and
had lived here all his life. He had been employed in the Armour
packing plant the last two weeks.
Learning that Wilton had been drowned, Earl Guthais, 1211
Washington street, launched his rowboat and rowed it, accompanied
in the boat by Policeman Schuldt, who maneuvered one end of the
dragline throughout the hunt for the body.
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The Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Sunday, June 15, 1930
Funeral Rites For Drowning Victim Set for Monday
Funeral rites for John Otto Wilton, 17 years old, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilton, 504 South Iowa street, who drowned
late Thursday afternoon in Half Moon Lake, will be conducted by
Rev. Lowell O. Brodie of the Gospel Tabernacle at 2 o’clock
Monday.
Pallbearers will be: Dan Hoover, Clarence Flick, Robert Collins,
John Myers, Paul Herman and Paul Higby.
The Wilton youth was born in Sioux City and had lived here all
his life. He would have been 18 years old August 1. Thursday
afternoon he went swimming in the lake in the packing house
district here and was seized with cramps. Efforts of companions
to save him proved futile. Police were called and aided by
persons at the scene recovered the body with a dragline after a
search of more than two hours.
Other survivors are: Three brothers, Raymond, Albert and Charles,
and two sisters, Helen and Jessie Wilton, all of Sioux City.
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Sioux City Journal
Sioux Ciy, Woodbury co., Iowa
June 26, 1930
BIRTHS:
CLOUGH—In Sioux City, Ia., June 25, 1930, at
Methodist hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Clough, of
Wakefield, Neb., a daughter.
WEIDERT—In Sioux City, Ia., June 20, to Mr. and Mrs.. N. A.
Weidert, 1130 South Newton street, a daughter.
MOSS—In Sioux City, June 24, 1930, at home, to Mr. and Mrs.
William E. Moss, 911 South Cecilia street, a daughter.
CHAMPLIN—In Sioux city, June 24, 1930, at home, to Mr. and
Mrs. William Champlin, 2232 Roosevelt street, a son.
FUNERALS:
CASILLAS—Funeral services for Mrs. May Hildagarde
Casillas, 24 years old, 2718 Peters avenue, wife of Adanto
Casillas, who died Tuesday in a Sioux City hospital, will be
conducted this morning in Immaculate Conception Catholic church,
Rev. J. J. Murphy will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary
cemetery.
MARRIAGE LICENSES:
Chester W. Raby, 22 –James, Ia
Lois Solomon, 19 –Jefferson, S.D.
Ray V. Mitchell, 27 –Sioux City
Dorothy Lessenich, 25 –Sioux City
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