Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Friedly, Glenn B. July 16, 1916 ************************************************ 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: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com October 18, 2022, 1:53 pm Lake Odessa Wave - Times - Vermontville - July 21, 1916 DOUBLE DROWNING NEAR VERMONTVILLE ------------- GLENN FRIEDLY AND CARL BUXTON TAKEN WITH CRAMPS IN SCIPIO POND ------------- Scipio pond, two miles west of Vermontville, was the scene of a double drowning Sunday afternoon. Glen Friedly, aged 19, and Carl Buxton, age 16, went into the water for a swim while overheated, and paid for their ill-advised act with lives. The two boys with a companion, Andrew Dooling, rode their bicycles on ahead of several others who were following on foot, and went into the water before they were cooled off from the ride. Dooling could not swim and stayed in shallow water. There were several people fishing on the pond but no attention was paid to the boy's cries for help, at first. Then they were seen to sink and efforts on the part of Dooling to reach them with a board were futile. There were no boats on the pond, and the bodies were not recovered until Henry Gearhart, a nearby farmer, succeeded in hooking them with a garden rake in about 20 feet of water. Carl Buxton was the son of Carl Buxton and lived near the pond. Glen Friedly worked on a farm nearby, his parents, former Vermontiville residents, having moved to Lansing. The funeral was held Tuesday from the Kilmartin church and the remains were interred in Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/friedly44168nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb