Medina County OhArchives News.....HOLD RITES WEDNESDAY FOR GORDON MADER July 11, 1950
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Medina Gazette July 11, 1950
The body of Gordon Mader, 35, of Brunswick, who was drowned Thursday morning 
while fishing off the east side of Pelee Island, was recovered Sunday 
afternoon by Coast Guardsmen from Marblehead.
Funeral services for the popular Brunswick man, who was president of the 
Brunswick Board of Education, will be held at 2PM, Wednesday at Bennetts 
Corners Methodist Church. Rev. Harold Braun will officiate and burial will be 
in the Brunswick Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Searle & Bassett Funeral Home in North Royalton, 
Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Mader, who live just south of Bennetts Corners, had been 
vacationing at Pelee Island and at 6AM Thursday left in a small outboard 
motorboat to fish. Three hours later a strong wind came up, making the lake 
rough.
Mr. Mader headed the boat for shore and in turning around both he and Mrs. 
Mader were pitched into the lake. The waves took the boat out of reach of the 
Maders. Their shouts for help were of no avail, so Mr. Mader, seeing that his 
wife was having no trouble afloat, told her he was going asore, 500 feet 
distance, for help.
Mrs. Mader recalls that she looked around to see her husband carried sidesways 
with the waves and he went under. People on the shore came to her rescue. An 
expert swimmer, Mr. Mader was handicapped by being heavily dressed. It is 
believed a heavy undertow took him under.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Mader were employed at Longview Farm, operated by Ralph W. 
Strong. Mr. Mader was superintendent of the poultry department.
Surviving besides the wife, Jean, are two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth; his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mader of Cleveland; a brother Ralph of Detroit; 
and a sister Florence Smith of Cleveland.

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