Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dutton, Etta A. September 23, 1965
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Sentinel-Standard - Thursday, Sept. 23, 1965

                         Two Are Killed On Highway
Two Ionia women were almost instantly killed at 9:10 o'clock Thursday 
morning when their care crashed headlong into a large tree only a few 
hundred feet from the Ionia state police post on M-66 three miles south of 
Ionia.

The two women were dead on arrival at Ionia County Memorial hospital where 
they were taken by an Ionia ambulance.

Dead are:
   Mrs. Etta Mae Walter, 62, of Peck Lake road, southwest of Ionia, who was 
believed to be the driver of the auto.
   Mrs. Etta Dutton, 83, also of Peck Lake road who was a passenger.

The accident occurred in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rex P. O'Connor 
and Mrs. O'Connor heard the crash. Upon seeing the car smashed against the 
tree called the Ionia state police post three doors south at Ionia county 
airport. Officers said the car was traveling about 65 miles per hour.

Trooper Ronald Colton made the investigation and was assisted by Sgt. 
Lincoln Dygert and Trooper Ronald Brief who were also at the post.

Trooper Colton said the car, registered in the name of Carl Walter, was 
northbound apparently en-route to Ionia. Tire marks disclosed it had gone 
off the east side of M-66 pavement apparently without braking, directly into 
the big tree. The car was demolished. 

The Ionia state police officer said there were indications that the driver 
could have fainted and was not in control of the auto as it left the 
highway.

Officers said Mrs. Walter operated a convalescent home and that Mrs. Dutton, 
who is an aunt, lived there.

Mrs. Walter's husband, Clayton, died July 29, this year. 



Additional Comments:
Oakwood cemetery, Muir, MI

DOUBLE FATALITY- Etta Mae Walter, 62, and Etta Dutton, 83, were dead on 
arrival at Ionia County Memorial hospital Thursday morning after this 
northbound car veered from M-66 and struck a large tree in front of the Rex. 
O'Connor residence at 9:10 a.m. Coroner Richard Hull reported both women 
died almost instantly from severe neck and other injury with investigation 
continuing. 

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