Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Schwab, Charles 1934
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Lowell Ledger, 5 Jul 1934

Charles Schwab - Meets Sudden Death Beneath Wreck’d Truck

Charles Schwab, 28, Apparently Dozed at Wheel of His Vehicle – Accident Occurs
About Midnight Sunday as He was Nearing Home

Death stalked on the highway near midnight last Sunday night taking the life of
Charles Schwab, one of the community’s most highly respected young men.  Death
came to Mr. Schwab when the light delivery truck which he was driving left the
highway at a point on the old US-16 route, about three miles east of the Sweet
schoolhouse and within a short distance of the Schwab home.  It is thought that
Mr. Schwab dozed for a moment or two at the wheel.  The truck apparently turned
on its side as it left the road, then righted itself in the ditch bottom after
which it crashed head on into a tree.  An iron brace on the truck lodged in the
driver’s skull and death was probably instantaneous.  The truck was almost
completely wrecked by its impact with the tree.  

The accident was first discovered about one o’clock the same night by Fritz
Wingeier, who noticed the wrecked truck as he was driving by and stopped to
investigate.  The truck was over turned with the driver underneath.  Mr.
Wingeier called the Yeiter ambulance.  Upon its arrival it was revealed that the
driver was Charles Schwab and that life was extinct and he was taken to the
Yeiter chapel.  The sheriff and a coroner from Ionia county were summoned but an
inquest was not deemed necessary.  

The news of Charles Schwab’s death was received with grief throughout the
community.  He was born 28 years ago at Elmdale, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Schwab.  For the past several years the family have resided on the farm in
Boston township.  Charles attended the Lowell high school and was graduated with
the Class of 1925, after which he attended a Grand Rapids business university. 
He then served four years as bookkeeper in the Lowell State Bank, later being in
the employ of the Morrison Lake Gardens, and still later with W. E. Hall cream
station at Lowell.  He was in the employ of the Christiansen Ice Cream Co. at
the time of his unfortunate death.  Surviving are the parents, a brother Joe and
three sisters, Mrs. Nicholas Kloosterman of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Wayne Weeks of
Lowell and Beatrice at home, and numerous other relatives.  There is also left
to mourn his betrothed, Miss Jeanne Beathan, niece of Mrs. Henry Klahn of Bowne
township, with whom she makes her home.  Their wedding would have taken place
later this month.  

Funeral services were held at the South Boston Congregational Church Wednesday
afternoon, the Rev. Frederick Williams of Baroda, Mich., officiating.  Music was
furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fahrni.  Charles was carried to his resting place
by six cousins acting as pallbearers.  They were Robert and Edward Yeiter and
Floyd, Garland, Henry and Harold Schwab.  Burial in South Boston cemetery. 
Charles Schwab was well liked and popular with everyone and the entire community
joins in expressions of sympathy to those bereaved.   


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