Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Yeager, Lee May 24, 1933
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Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 26 May 1933
YEAGER, Lee 
18 Jan 1915 to 24 May 1933
18y 4m 6d

CANFIELD HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL
WENT SWIMMING AND DROWNED
Lee Yeager, 18, a sophomore in Canfield high school, was drowned about noon 
Wednesday in a small pond, in the main about 10 feet deep, on grounds of the 
Altimo Culture Co., a short distance south of Lisbon street. As school 
examinations were in progress pupils not so occupied were allowed their 
freedom. Lee, in company with three companions, Donald Snyder, Ellis McCartney 
and Morgan Davis, elected to go swimming. Lee, unable to swim, got aboard a 
small raft while his companions plunged into the pond. Presently one of the 
boys saw Lee fall into the water and called the others to join in his rescue.  
While unable to locate the spot where he went down alarm was given and some 
dragging was being done without effect. It was not until after a crowd had 
gathered and the lad had been in the water more than an hour that Charles 
Neff, Boy Scout leader, dived into the pool and at once located the body close 
to shore and brought it to the surface. It was removed in Williams’ ambulance 
to the funeral home. Lee suffered from heart trouble and he never came up 
after sinking, it is thought he may have had a sudden attack, causing him to 
fall into the water.  The pond is about 500 yards from the one on Altimo 
Culture Co. grounds in which Lee, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Davies, drowned 
some months ago. It is a coincidence that both unfortunate bore the same given 
name and both tragedies occurred at noon. Lee Yeager, a son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Yeager, was born in Canfield Township Jan. 18, 1915. During the past 
four years he had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Horace C. Clay, residing 
near the Yeager family, attending school in the village and working on the 
farm during vacations. They had become greatly attached to the lad and deeply 
mourn his untimely death. Besides his parents deceased leaves two sisters, 
Lucy and Delma, and four brothers, Kenneth, Robert, Wade and Lloyd Yeager, all 
at home. Funeral services will be held from the residence Saturday afternoon 
at 2 o’clock. Rev. C.A. Lang, pastor of Austintown Reformed Community church, 
officiating. Interment will be made in Zion church cemetery, one mile north of 
the village. 

Burial – Row 1 Old North Cemetery, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH



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