Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fellows, Helen November 16, 1929
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Thursday, November 21, 1929
Again this village was stunned when the news reached here early Saturday 
evening of a terrible accident in which Helen Fellows and her mother had been 
the victims of a careless or drunken driver, and has been taken to the St. 
Lawrence hospital, Lansing.  A few minutes later the news came that Helen had 
passed away.

Helen and her mother, Mrs. James Fellows, had driven to Lansing to do some 
shopping and decided to return by way of Ionia, taking of course the US 16 
cement road.  Mrs. Fellows objected to that road as there had been so many 
accidents on it but Helen assured her mother that she would drive slow and 
they proceeded on their way.  When about three miles this side of Lansing they 
were run into by a car coming from the west, the car striking the Fellows car 
with an oblique side crash tearing the side of the car and injuring its 
occupants.

A farmer hearing the crash went to the scene of accident and saw the driver of 
the offending car sitting by a telephone pole.  He went to the house and 
telephoned the state police and also for help.  Mrs. Fellows and Helen were 
taken unconscious to the hospital where it was found Helen had sustained a 
fatal cut on the scalp and internal injuries, and Mrs. Fellows was bruised on 
almost her entire left side, with a bad foot and other injuries.  The body of 
Helen was brought home Sunday noon.  

As soon as the husband and father heard of the accident, he with his daughter 
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Ritter, went to Lansing where Mr. Fellows was overcome and 
had a heart attack of which he is subject.  He also received medical attention 
there.  On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were able to be brought home.  

The license of the offending car was secured and it was found to have belonged 
to J. Stanley Walker, a Lansing insurance man.  No trace of the driver has as 
yet been found.  The father of Walker, a Lansing man, visited at the Fellows 
home Tuesday morning and when shown the beautiful form of Helen in her casket 
wept like a child and remarked that it did not seem possible that his son 
could have left the scene of such an accident.  It is reported that about two 
quarts of liquor was found near the wreck.  The Walker car was burned up.

Miss Helen was 19 years of age and a young lady of energy and ambition.  She 
was a graduate of our high school class of 1928.  She learned the trade of 
beauty culture and has conducted a beauty parlor in her home several years.  
She had recently purchased a permanent waving machine and was doing a 
lucrative business.  She was to have been the bride of Lyle Rockhill of 
Hastings at Christmas time.  She was a beautiful young woman and as good as 
beautiful.  She was unselfish and dependable and of a happy, cheerful 
disposition.

The funeral was held at the home here Tuesday afternoon where a large company 
congregated.  The casket of pink and lavender was surrounded by a wonderful 
array of flowers and the beautiful girl made a picture long to be remembered.  
The sermon was by Rev. O. F. Bulman of Central church and Mrs. Vera McCartney 
and Leon Gilson sang “My Only Hope” and “Face to Face,” accompanied by Mrs. 
Leon Gilson.  The schoolmates of the deceased acted as escort.  Burial was at 
Lakeside cemetery.

Those in attendance at the funeral of Helen Fellows from out of town were: Mr. 
and Mrs. L. L. Lightfoot, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koester, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo 
Butler, all of Toledo, O; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gearhart and daughter Norma, and 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Tellier of Lansing; Leo Snyder and mother, Morenci; Ida 
Snyder, Napolean; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bennett, Battle Creek; Mr. and Mrs. 
Clare Figg, Vermontville; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cash and Dr. and Mrs. Peter 
Drummand of Grant, and William Langdon and mother Mrs. Abbie Landgon, 84 years 
old, an aunt of James Fellows.

Card of Thanks:

Words cannot express our appreciation of the kindness, sympathy and timely aid 
of our many friends and neighbors in this our deep affliction.  We thank the 
pastor and singers and all those who sent flowers at the time of the death of 
our dear Helen.

Mr. and Mrs. James Fellows
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Ritter
Willard Fellows


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