Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, MT, 28 Dec 1953
Theodore Hoerner Dies in Auto Accident
Theodore Hoerner, 21, Columbia Falls, was killed early yesterday morning when the convertible in which he and three companions were riding overturned about two miles northwest of Creston. The group was returning from a dance at Swan River Hall about 2 a.m. Tracks indicated the car made a swing toward the left side of the road, cut across the road and off the right side. The car went through a wire fence, sheared a power pole, and overturned. Hoerner's head was crushed and he died soon after the crash.
The following is as told by Ted's Sister Helen Hoerner Filcher to Oma Lepard for the Montana White Cross project:
Ted died in an auto accident on Highway 35 approximately three miles north of Creston, Montana, in the early hours of December 27, 1953. He was 21 years old.
He had attended a dance in Bigfork. The kids he went to the dance with were getting drunk and weren't ready to go home so Ted took an early ride home in the back seat of a convertible driven by a casual acquaintance.
After rounding a curve and heading north on dry, straight roads, the car left the road on the right, rolled over and landed upside down in the shallow barrow pit. None of the three occupants were injured.
In the stress and confusion, the two youths in the front seat lifted the car to let Ted escape from the back seat. As he emerged from the inverted car, they could hold it no longer and dropped it on him, killing him immediately.
Ted was very likeable; he was pretty quiet and serious. He helped his Mom a lot (she was a widow). He was very generous and always willing to help someone. I was about four years older than him. I was married when he died.
There were seven of us kids. We moved to Columbia Falls, Montana from North Dakota in 1945. We had fun out on the farm; sleigh riding and horseback riding. We didn't have many toys.
After Ted was killed, the other boys came around and helped Mom get firewood, took her to the store, etc. They were very kind to her and very good.
The adjoining landowner has long since removed the cross and farmed the state barrow pit.
Theodore Hoerner Dies in Auto Accident
Theodore Hoerner, 21, Columbia Falls, was killed early yesterday morning when the convertible in which he and three companions were riding overturned about two miles northwest of Creston. The group was returning from a dance at Swan River Hall about 2 a.m. Tracks indicated the car made a swing toward the left side of the road, cut across the road and off the right side. The car went through a wire fence, sheared a power pole, and overturned. Hoerner's head was crushed and he died soon after the crash.
The following is as told by Ted's Sister Helen Hoerner Filcher to Oma Lepard for the Montana White Cross project:
Ted died in an auto accident on Highway 35 approximately three miles north of Creston, Montana, in the early hours of December 27, 1953. He was 21 years old.
He had attended a dance in Bigfork. The kids he went to the dance with were getting drunk and weren't ready to go home so Ted took an early ride home in the back seat of a convertible driven by a casual acquaintance.
After rounding a curve and heading north on dry, straight roads, the car left the road on the right, rolled over and landed upside down in the shallow barrow pit. None of the three occupants were injured.
In the stress and confusion, the two youths in the front seat lifted the car to let Ted escape from the back seat. As he emerged from the inverted car, they could hold it no longer and dropped it on him, killing him immediately.
Ted was very likeable; he was pretty quiet and serious. He helped his Mom a lot (she was a widow). He was very generous and always willing to help someone. I was about four years older than him. I was married when he died.
There were seven of us kids. We moved to Columbia Falls, Montana from North Dakota in 1945. We had fun out on the farm; sleigh riding and horseback riding. We didn't have many toys.
After Ted was killed, the other boys came around and helped Mom get firewood, took her to the store, etc. They were very kind to her and very good.
The adjoining landowner has long since removed the cross and farmed the state barrow pit.
Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, MT, 28 Dec 1953
Theodore Hoerner Dies in Auto Accident
Theodore Hoerner, 21, Columbia Falls, was killed early yesterday morning when the convertible in which he and three companions were riding overturned about two miles northwest of Creston. The group was returning from a dance at Swan River Hall about 2 a.m. Tracks indicated the car made a swing toward the left side of the road, cut across the road and off the right side. The car went through a wire fence, sheared a power pole, and overturned. Hoerner's head was crushed and he died soon after the crash.
The following is as told by Ted's Sister Helen Hoerner Filcher to Oma Lepard for the Montana White Cross project:
Ted died in an auto accident on Highway 35 approximately three miles north of Creston, Montana, in the early hours of December 27, 1953. He was 21 years old.
He had attended a dance in Bigfork. The kids he went to the dance with were getting drunk and weren't ready to go home so Ted took an early ride home in the back seat of a convertible driven by a casual acquaintance.
After rounding a curve and heading north on dry, straight roads, the car left the road on the right, rolled over and landed upside down in the shallow barrow pit. None of the three occupants were injured.
In the stress and confusion, the two youths in the front seat lifted the car to let Ted escape from the back seat. As he emerged from the inverted car, they could hold it no longer and dropped it on him, killing him immediately.
Ted was very likeable; he was pretty quiet and serious. He helped his Mom a lot (she was a widow). He was very generous and always willing to help someone. I was about four years older than him. I was married when he died.
There were seven of us kids. We moved to Columbia Falls, Montana from North Dakota in 1945. We had fun out on the farm; sleigh riding and horseback riding. We didn't have many toys.
After Ted was killed, the other boys came around and helped Mom get firewood, took her to the store, etc. They were very kind to her and very good.
The adjoining landowner has long since removed the cross and farmed the state barrow pit.
Theodore Hoerner Dies in Auto Accident
Theodore Hoerner, 21, Columbia Falls, was killed early yesterday morning when the convertible in which he and three companions were riding overturned about two miles northwest of Creston. The group was returning from a dance at Swan River Hall about 2 a.m. Tracks indicated the car made a swing toward the left side of the road, cut across the road and off the right side. The car went through a wire fence, sheared a power pole, and overturned. Hoerner's head was crushed and he died soon after the crash.
The following is as told by Ted's Sister Helen Hoerner Filcher to Oma Lepard for the Montana White Cross project:
Ted died in an auto accident on Highway 35 approximately three miles north of Creston, Montana, in the early hours of December 27, 1953. He was 21 years old.
He had attended a dance in Bigfork. The kids he went to the dance with were getting drunk and weren't ready to go home so Ted took an early ride home in the back seat of a convertible driven by a casual acquaintance.
After rounding a curve and heading north on dry, straight roads, the car left the road on the right, rolled over and landed upside down in the shallow barrow pit. None of the three occupants were injured.
In the stress and confusion, the two youths in the front seat lifted the car to let Ted escape from the back seat. As he emerged from the inverted car, they could hold it no longer and dropped it on him, killing him immediately.
Ted was very likeable; he was pretty quiet and serious. He helped his Mom a lot (she was a widow). He was very generous and always willing to help someone. I was about four years older than him. I was married when he died.
There were seven of us kids. We moved to Columbia Falls, Montana from North Dakota in 1945. We had fun out on the farm; sleigh riding and horseback riding. We didn't have many toys.
After Ted was killed, the other boys came around and helped Mom get firewood, took her to the store, etc. They were very kind to her and very good.
The adjoining landowner has long since removed the cross and farmed the state barrow pit.
