Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Blind, Johanna 1928
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The Payette Independent 12-6-1928
The Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, December 6, 1928
 
AUTO ACCIDENT RESULTS FATALLY
 
MRS. ADAM BLIND, OF EAST OF FRUITLAND, THE VICTIM OF AN UNFORTUNATE COLLISION 
LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
 
As Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Peirce, of this city, were driving to Fruitland to the 
dance between 9 and 10 o'clock last Wednesday night a car occupied by Mr. and 
Mrs. Adam Blind, their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Damewood, 
and little son, turned in ahead of them at the Ontario intersection of the 
highway.
 
The cars were going at a speed of 30 to 35 miles an hour and Dwight remained 
behind, thinking the other parties were going on into Fruitland on the main 
highway, but when they reached Peck's corner at the street north of the 
Fruitland main street the lead car started the turn to the left, and before it 
cleared the highway sufficiently to let Dwight pass the left front fender of 
his car struck the spare tire on the rear of the Blind car and a trailer 
bumper on that car caught in the left front wheel of Dwight's car and broke 
the spokes letting the wheel down.
 
Whether from the force of the impact alone, or partly because of the 
suddenness of the (Unreadable) Blind car overturned and Mrs. Blind suffered a 
fractured skull and her left leg was broken.  She was taken to the Ontario 
hospital where she passed away Sunday morning.  The other occupants of the car 
suffered no serious injuries.  Mr. and Mrs. Peirce were uninjured and the 
broken wheel and a bent fender were the only injuries in their car.  The Blind 
car was badly wrecked.
 
As is generally the case, there is a question as to the responsibility for the 
wreck.  Mr. Damewood, who was driving the Blind car says he signaled before 
starting to make the turn, but Dwight says he saw no signal and that the 
curtains on the Blind care were fastened down tight when the care was examined 
after the wreck.  It was a terrible unfortunate affair and the sympathy of 
everyone goes out to Mr. Blind and family in their great loss.
 
Obituary
 
Mrs. Adam Blind was born September 8, 1875, in Crimea, Russia.  She was 
married there to Adam Blind, May 18, 1893.  They lived there until November 
1904, when they came to the United States and settled in Gregory, South 
Dakota.  They made their home there until March 15, 1908, when they came to 
Fruitland and settled on their ranch 2 1/2 miles east of Fruitland where they 
have since resided.

Mrs. Blind was injured in an automobile accident Wednesday night Nov. 28, 
about 10 o'clock, on the pavement west of Fruitland.  She was taken at once to 
the Ontario hospital where it was thought that her injuries were not serious, 
but she passed away Sunday morning, December 2, about 10 o'clock.
 
She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, Adam Blind, 4 sons, William, And 
Ehrhart Blind of Bend, Oregon, Robert and Jackie Blind of Fruitland, 6 
daughters, Mrs. Bertha Marr, and Mrs. Ida Hackett of Bend, Oregon, Mrs. Sophia 
Nelson and Miss Emila Blind of Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Mrs. Lydia 
Grischkowsky and Mrs. Erma Damewood of Fruitland, 2 step daughters, Mrs. Katie 
Cochran of Fruitland, and Mrs. Rosa Schweigert of Bend, Oregon.  All of these 
reached her bedside before she passed away.  2 children preceded her in 
death.  She also leaves 14 grandchildren, her brother Pete Grischkowsky who 
has always made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Blind and 2 sisters in Russia, 
besides a large circle of friends in this community who will greatly mourn her 
passing.
 
Funeral services were held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 conducted 
by Rev. W. F. Kellerman of Emmett, and again at 2:30 in the Lutheran church 
near New Plymouth, of which she was a member, conducted  by Rev. Colley of 
Nampa.  Interment was made in Park View cemetery in New Plymouth.  Her six 
sons-in-law, J. O. Cochran, Paul Hackett, Ellis Marr, Ronhold Schweigert, Nick 
Nelson, and Paul Damewood, were her pall bearers.
 
Mrs. Blind was a kind and loving neighbor, always ready and willing to help 
those who needed help.  She was loved by all who knew her.
 
The sympathy of the bereaved family's many friend is extended to them in their 
hour of sorrow.

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