Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bollinger, Walter E. December 1, 1949
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com December 9, 2017, 1:26 am

Sentinel-Standard - Friday, Dec. 2, 1949

                   Ionia Man Dies From Injuries Of Auto Crash
            Accident on M-21 Near Muir Walter Bollinger Is Victim:

One man was killed and several automobiles damaged Thursday evening in 
crashes on Ionia highways.

The dead man was Walter W. Bollinger, 49, 417 Morse street, Ionia, who died 
in the Ionia County Memorial hospital at 8:45 Thursday night about two and a 
half hours after his automobile and a truck had collided on M-21 east of the 
Harry Hendrickson home just west of Muir.

Bollinger, a salesman was returning to his home in Ionia driving west on M-
21. The truck driven by Virgil I. Mohler, 29, of Sheridan, Route 1, was 
traveling east of the Hendrickson home. The crash occurred at 6:20 p.m. the 
Mohler truck turning over north of the pavement and the Bollinger car coming 
to a stop on the pavement several rods away. 
                    Brought to Hospital
Bollinger was brought to the hospital here suffering from multiple injuries. 

Undersheriff Michael Brindle investigated the accident and reported that it 
was snowing at the time and that the pavement was slippery. He was able to 
get a statement from Mohler but it was impossible to question Bollinger who 
died without regaining consciousness. 

Before coming to Ionia, Bollinger and a brother were in business at Smyrna. 
The body was taken to Carson City, near where the family lived at one time. 

Coroner Harry Myers was called into the case upon the death of Bollinger, 
the 13th death of the year.

Bollinger was born January 29, 1910, in Ferris Center the son of John and 
Eva M. Bollinger, formerly of Alma. He moved to Ionia county 18 years ago at 
the time of his marriage to the former Rose Roach of Hubbardston. He had 
lived in the area most of the years since then. Two years ago he moved to 
Ionia city.

Surviving are the wife, Rose; two sons, Bruce, 17, and Bernard, 16, at home; 
two brothers, Orville of Orleans and Ernest of Pensacola, Fla.; and four 
sisters, Mrs. Fred Oswald of Saginaw, Mrs. Joseph Lavey of Romulus, Mrs. 
Walter Cook of Alma and Mrs. Richard Simmons of Gladwin. 

Funeral services will be conducted from SS. Peter and Paul church in Ionia 
Monday at 9 a.m. with interment in Hubbardston Catholic cemetery. The body 
will be removed to the home in Ionia Saturday where it will repose until 
just before the services Monday. 

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Monday, 5 December 1949
St. John the Baptist cemetery, Hubbardston, #A-077

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bollinge34133nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 3.1 Kb