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Chase County Obituaries
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Gordon, Joleen Alice
DOUBLE TRAGEDY TAKES PLACE OF JOYFUL HOMECOMING
What they had anticipated would be a joyful home-coming was turned into a terrible tragedy for Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and Mr. Herschel Yenzer, of St. Joe, Mo., as the result ot a motor car accident late Friday evening in which Mrs. Yenzer was fatally injured and the little fourteen months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon met instant death.
The accident occurred six miles north of Eskridge, 11:00 o’clock Friday night, when Mr. Gordon’s Ford sedan was side-swiped by the car of Tom McClain and Charles Carr. McClain and Carr and two women companions were returning from a fishing trip. None of them were injured.
Mrs. Yenzer and the Gordon baby were hurt under the car as it rolled over three times. The little baby’s head was crushed. Mrs. Yenzers head was hurt and her chest crushed. Ed Gordon received a cut on one arm and his wife suffered a painful cut on her head near one eye, Herschel Yenzer was only slightly wounded, suffering a leg injury. The Gordon car was almost completely wrecked.
Following the accident, Mrs. Yenzer and the Gordon baby were taken to the farm house of Arthur Smith who lives only a short distance from the scene of the tragedy and a doctor called. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon was instantly killed. Mrs. Yenzer who suffered a head injury and a crushed chest lived for about one and one-half hours. She was conscious most of the time.
The Gordon and Yenzer families left St. Joe, Mo., their home, to motor to this county to visit relatives over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Yenzer were going to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Yenzer of Saffordville. The Gordon family were on the way to the J. E. Gordon home north of Strong City where they were to attend a big family reunion.
The body of Mrs. Yenzer was taken to Eskridge by an Eskridge undertaker. From there it was brought to the Yenzer home north of Saffordville. The funeral services were held at 4:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. Pratt, pastor of the Saffordville Methodist Church, preached the sermon. Interment was in the Toledo cemetery.
From the Smith farm house at Eskridge, the body of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon's baby was brought to this city Saturday. The funeral service for the baby was held from the Methodist Church in this city at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. E. Satterlee, pastor of the Methodist Churches of this city and Strong City, preached the sermon. Interment was in the Prairie Grove cemetery west of this city.
Mrs. Yenzer was 28 years of age. She was a Scotch girl, having come to this country eight years ago. She and Mr. Yenzer became acquainted in Chicago.
They were married about three years ago. Mrs. Yenzer’s mother lives in the old country. She has relatives at Montreal, Canada, but none of her relatives live closer. Mr. Yenzer works for a telephone company at St. Joe.
Ed Gordon is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gordon, of Strong City. He is a graduate of the Chase County Community High School. He is on the staff of the Artcraft Engraving Company, of St. Joe, where he has been for the past year and a half. Ed, for a short time, worked in The Leader office in this city.
Mrs. Gordon is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newt Odle. She was born in this city. Her father was a miller and worked in the old mill before the mill shut down. Mrs. Houser, who will be better remembered here as Mrs. Blurton, is her mother, and a grandmother of the baby killed in the accident.
Tom McClain and Charles Carr, the men who were driving the car which crashed into the Gordon car, live at St. Marys, Kansas. Both are automobile salesmen.
Immediately after the accident, Sheriff C. R. McCauley, of Alma, was called and started an investigation, looking into the cause of the accident.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, August 1933.
Joleen Alice, daughter of Edgar and Ruby Gordon, was born in St. Joseph, Mo., on July 1st., 1932, and was called to her Heavenly Home on August 25th. 1933, at the age of one year, one month and 24 days.
She is survived by her mother and father and her grandparents. Mrs. and Mrs. J. E. Gordon of Strong City, Mrs. Maud Odle of Topeka and Mr. N. E. Odle of Hutchinson, her great grandmother, Mrs. C. L. Howser of Hutchinson, her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gordon and her aunt, Miss Verna Gordon of strong City.
Funeral services in charge of Rev. E. E. Satterlee, were held at the Methodist Church at Cottonwood Falls and interment was in Praire Grove Cemetery.
The pall bearers were Margaret Finley, Avis Moore, Flo Ellen Simon, and Patricia Slack.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, August 30, 1933.
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