Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stevens, Leo 1945
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 30 Jun & Jul 2 1945

Sits On Rail, Muir Man Is Hit By Train

Leo Stevens, 37-year-old Muir truck driver and scale weigher, was near death in
the Ionia County Memorial hospital Saturday morning after he was struck by a
Grand Trunk Western Railroad passenger train shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday. 
Stevens was reported by attaches of the Ionia hospital to have suffered a
fractured skull, internal injuries, and a fractured femur or leg above the knee.
 He was unconscious when brought to the hospital and remained in that state
Saturday.  His condition was regarded as critical at the hospital.

According to Deputy Sheriff Leo Fuller, who was called by trainmen, Stevens was
said by Conductor Earl Hanson of Detroit to have been sitting on the south rail
of the track when the passenger train approached from the west after stopping in
Ionia.  The train was bound from Muskegon to Detroit.  The Ionia deputy said
Stevens was sighted sitting on the rails but that the engineer could not stop
the heavy train before he was struck by the engine.  Deputy Fuller said he did
not know why Stevens was sitting there.  The scene of the accident was slightly
less than a half mile east of the Cleveland street rail crossing in the city of
Ionia and near the end of the siding spur of the railroad.

A sister, Mrs. Hazel Fish, of South Dexter street, was informed of Stevens’s
serious injury.  He was divorced several months ago.

Train crew members picked Stevens up from the railroad roadbed where he had been
thrown and put him aboard the train and backed up to the Ionia depot where an
ambulance was called and Stevens removed to the hospital.

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Injuries Are Fatal to Train Victim

Leo Stevens, 37, died at the Ionia County Memorial hospital Sunday, July 1,
after he was struck by a Grand Trunk Western Railroad passenger train shortly
after 3 a.m. Saturday.  He was born in Berlin township and resided in Muir at
the time of his death.  He was employed as a truck driver and scale weigher.

He is survived by his wife, Cecelia, four children; his father, Amon Stevens, of
Traverse City; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Shephard of Saranac and Mrs. Hazel Fish
of Ionia.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 3 at 2 p.m. from home in Saranac. 
Interment will be in the Saranac cemetery.


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