Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rowley, Keitha 1927
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Ionia County News, 22 Nov 1927

Orleans Girl Fatally Hurt in Car Crash

Miss Keitha Rowley Dies At Shiloh After Accident On M-43

Three Others In Auto Are Unhurt

Ionian’s Parked Auto Is Struck as Party Goes Home From Dance

Fatally injured when she was hurled through the windshield of a car in which 
she was returning with her sister and two young men from a dance at Shiloh 
early Sunday morning Miss Keitha Rowley, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orson 
Rowley, Orleans township, died a half hour after the accident.

Miss Rowley, together with her sister Lucile, 17, Kenneth Hitdlebaugh, 17, of 
Fenwick and Robert White, 18, driver of the auto, were enroute home on M-43 
about six miles north of Ionia at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday after having attended 
the Saturday evening dance at Shiloh.

At the same hour Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith, 606 Harrison street, Ionia was on 
the way home from Greenville.  Their car had run out of gasoline and after 
pushing it to the side of the road Mr. Smith had started to walk to a service 
station for gasoline leaving Mrs. Smith in the parked car.

The auto in which the young people were riding approached at what is claimed to 
have been a reasonable rate of speed.  Sleet was falling at the time and 
freezing on the windshield and this may have been the cause of the failure of 
Mr. White to see the parked car.  He struck it from the rear hurling Miss 
Rowley through the windshield and fracturing her skull.

She was picked up and taken to the general store at Shiloh.  Dr. A.E. Holland, 
of Belding, was called but reached the girl’s side too late to be of 
assistance, death coming a very few minutes after his arrival.

The Smith car was driven up onto the bank at the side of the road when it was 
struck but neither Mrs. Smith nor the other oc-… [Transcriber's Note:  This 
copy of the obituary ends here.]


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