Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tischer, Grace Z. (Hatton) 1938
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Lake Odessa Wave, 10 Feb 1938

Mrs. Grace Tischer Killed In Accident

Her Car Hit County Road Scraper Truck Head-on Friday Evening.

Mrs. Grace Tischer was almost instantly killed two miles west of Lake Odessa on 
M-50 at about 6:15 o’clock Friday evening when her car crashed head-on into a 
county road scraper truck.  She lived four miles west of here but was employed 
as a saleslady in the Olive Huntzinger Shop and was driving home from work when 
the tragedy occurred.

Some little distance behind Mrs. Tischer, her daughter-in-law Mrs. Hillis 
Tischer was also driving toward home.  She soon arrived at the scene of the 
collision, which was in front of the Vernon Klingman home, and she and Elwood 
Klingman brought the fatally-injured woman to the Lake Odessa hospital.

Mrs. Tischer was dead when admitted to the hospital.  Her body had been crushed 
and broken by the impact.

Alfred Miller, 45, of Lake Odessa, driver of the truck, told Deputy Sheriff 
William E. Gardner and Chief Deputy Leslie H. Murphy, who investigated the 
accident, that he was driving his truck toward Lake Odessa and was scraping 
gravel on the north side of the road.  He told the officers that a short time 
before, he had turned on all the truck lights, and when he saw the Tischer car 
coming toward him brought the truck to a complete stop.  A short time later he 
said the car struck the truck head on.

The impact pushed the automobile’s motor back into the car, threw the doors 
open and Mrs. Tischer fell out of the car.  But little damage was done to the 
heavy road scraper.

Coroner Harry Myers of Ionia picked the following coroner’s jury which viewed 
the body and the scene of the accident:  H.D. Poff, F.W. Gates, C.J. Yager, 
Chester Yager, A.H. McCartney and Delow Trowbridge, and said there would be an 
inquest.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. L. W. Manning at the home, west of 
Lake Odessa, Monday morning, and interment was made in the Lakeside cemetery.

Those who attended the funeral from away include Mrs. Jennie James, Prof. 
Lajlin James, Mrs. Eunice Weissinger, Mrs. Ethel Hastings, and Russell Lynch, 
all of Ann Arbor; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rising, and son Burl, William Savacoal, 
Earl McKibbon, of Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wright, and Mr. and Mrs. H. V. 
Weed, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lapo, Ionia; Mr. and Mrs. Garce 
Tischer and family, and Frank Tischer, of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Henney, 
Grand Rapids; Mrs. Andrew Roush, Mrs. Roy Thomas, and Mr. and Mrs. ..
[unreadable].., Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Wendel Shoemaker, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Terrance Short, Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. James Dean, Palo; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn 
Tower, Saranac; Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Tucker, Grand Rapids; Mrs. Arvilla Race, 
Saranac; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Norton, Smyrna; Mr. and Mrs. George Hatch, Saranac, 
and John Struble of Detroit.

Obituary

Grace Z. Hatton, daughter of Charles L. Hatton and Alice M. Weed, was born in 
Seneca county, Ohio, June 25, 1880.  Her mother died when she was about one 
year of age.  Her father was remarried to Jessie B. Cary of Seneca county, 
Ohio.  They moved to Nashville, Mich., when Grace was about two and one-half 
years of age, later moving to a farm near Lake Odessa and she has lived in the 
same community ever since.  Her high school education was obtained in the Lake 
Odessa school.

She was converted early in life, joined the church; and was a constituent of 
the Central Methodist church in Lake Odessa.  She was united in marriage to Ira 
Tischer on January 21, 1901.  To this union was born, Hillis, who has made his 
home with his parents.

Mrs. Tischer was devoted to her family and her work, and she leaves many 
friends and acquaintances who will miss her happy smile and cheerful 
disposition.  She met her untimely death by accident on Friday, Feb. 4, at the 
age of 57 years.  Those who mourn her passing include her husband, Ira Tischer, 
a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hillis Tischer; her step-mother, Mrs. 
Jessie Hatton, and a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rowlader, of 
Grand Rapids.


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