Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....SPENCER, ARLENE MARIE May 1, 1949
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Gladwin County Record dated 05-04/1949 Column - 8 Page - 1
SERVICES HELD TODAY FOR ARLENE SPENCER AND CONSTANCE CRAGO

   Two teen-age girls were killed about 10 p.m. Sunday evening when the 
automobiles in which they were riding ran off the road and overturned in a 
drainage ditch, a mile west and a mile south of Beaverton during a pouring 
rain. The victims were Arlene Marie Spencer, 18, and Constance Jean Crago, 16, 
both of Beaverton. Double funeral services were held this morning at the 
Beaverton Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Elder B. H. 
Doty, of Gladwin, and Elder E. J. Kintner, of Beaverton, officiated at the 11 
o'clock rites. Arlene was buried in Dale cemetery and Constance in Fairgrove 
cemetery.
   Robert Hutson, of Beaverton, was the driver of the car. He was treated for 
minor injuries at the Gladwin Hospital and released. Three other girls, riding 
in the back seat fo the car, were uninjured. They are Susan Hutson, sister of 
the driver, Jean Williams and Miss Sampson.
   Hutson told officers he was taking the girls home from a Beaverton 
restaurant and was proceeding along the road in a downpour of rain when the 
accident occurred. The highway is rather narrow at this point and is flanked 
by a deep drainage ditch. The two girls fell or were thrown from the two-door 
car as it over-turned and were pinned by the car in the water. Efforts to 
revive Miss Crago by artificial respiration failed. Sheriff Arthur Kelly and 
Coroner Lewis Reigle were called to the scene.
   Arlene, daughter of Eber Spencer, of Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. Florence White, 
of Beaverton, was born in Beaverton township, Gladwin county, Feb. 2, 1931. 
She leaves besides her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Alice Barber and Miss 
Pauline Spencer, both of Mt. Pleasant; a brother, Lloyd, of Beaverton; and her 
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Killian, of Beaverton.
   Constance was born Aug. 25, 1932, and is the daughter of Mrs. Julia Smith, 
of Flint. She lived with her grandmother, Mrs. Stella Hammond, in Beaverton. 
Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Ellen Swartzmiller, of Hope; and a 
grandfather, Clyde Crago, of Flint. 

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