Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Franie (Sower) September 26, 1963
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Daily Sentinel-Standard (Pg. 1) - Friday, Sept. 27, 1963

                  Rural Belding Woman Is Dead of Injuries
Ionia county chalked up its tenth highway fatality Thursday afternoon when 
cars driven by two women collided at a rural intersection. 

Fatally injured and dying within two hours was Franie Brooks, 59, of route 
two, Belding. She died at Ionia County Memorial hospital at 6:02 p.m.

Her injuries were listed as skull fracture, brain damage and chest injuries.

Injured and taken to the hospital was Marcella Joy Boyden, 36, route two, 
Clarksville. She received minor lacerations of the arm and contusions on the 
arm and legs.

State police said the two women were riding alone when their automobiles 
collided at the intersection of Hawley highway and Potters road at 4:10 
Thursday afternoon.

A witness to the collision said the Brooks car and stopped and then entered 
the intersection where it was struck broadside.

The Boyden car was going south on Hawley highway and skidded 30 feet, 
officers said, before striking the other vehicle.

Ned White and Jay Patterson, employees of Bell Telephone, were on the next 
intersection south a mile away and heard the screeching tires and crash when 
the vehicles collided.

Mrs. Brooks was born in Otisco township June 26, 1904, and had lived in the 
Belding area all her life.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ellen Rodarmer, Grand Rapids, Mrs. 
Beatrice Fancett, Jr., of Fenwick, and Mrs. Emma Carpenter, of Ellsworth; ; 
five sons, Asa J. Brooks of Sheridan, Millen of Ellsworth, Edgar of Fenwick, 
Eugene of Carson City, and Ronnie at home; 20 grandchildren; two sisters, 
Mrs. Edward Thompson of Lowell, and Mrs. Clarence Brooks of Sheridan; and 
one brother, Ellsworth Sower of Belding.

Funeral service will be Monday at Huffman funeral home in Belding


Additional Comments:
Funeral: Monday, 30 September, 1963
Easton cemetery #176


Daily Sentinel-Standard - Friday, September 27, 1963

TENTH FATALITY - The automobile on the right was driven by Franie Brooks 
late Thursday afternoon when she suffered fatal injuries. Coroner Dale 
Kauffman and Tpr. William Tompkins are shown as the removed Marcella Joy 
Boyden from her car preparatory to going to Ionia County Memorial hospital. 
The two cars collided at the intersection of Hawley highway and Potter road. 
(Daily Sentinel Standard has photo)   

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