Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wieczorek, Hugh T. 1945
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The Portland Review, Thursday, August 16, 1945

Hugh T. Wieczorek, 19, Ionia young man, was instantly killed late Friday 
afternoon, when he drove his car into the rear of one of the heavy road 
scrapers operated by the Ionia Count Road Commission.  The accident occurred 
north of the Shindorf gas station, near Earl Monks’ farm.  Virginia Wieczorek, 
the driver’s sister, received a broken leg, and Raymond Sprague, of Lyons, a 
third passenger, received several bad cuts.

Wieczorek was driving from Portland to Lyons when the accident occurred, and 
it was sated he had failed to see the truck due to a dust cloud.

Driver of the county truck was George R. Miller, 44, also of Ionia.  Miller 
was dazed by the impact and it was several minutes before he regained full 
consciousness.  Believing a tire on the truck had blown out, he walked around 
the back to have a look, and discovered the wrecked car.  He was too weak to 
give much assistance in getting the dead man and the injured from the wrecked 
auto.  The injured were removed to Ionia hospital in the Neller ambulance.

Funeral services for the young man, seventh highway crash victim of the 
present year in this county, were held at SS. Peter and Paul church in Ionia 
Tuesday morning.



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