Gladstone Man Dies in Snow
Gladstone (AP) – Apparently having become lost in a snow-filled, rugged countryside after his car burned, a 63 year-old Gladstone schoolteacher was found dead by searchers at the foot of a 30-foot cliff.
Medical examiners ruled that George Honberg, a sixth-grade teacher, died of a broken neck suffered in a fall from the cliff.
Sgt. R. H. Sipe, commander of the Gladstone State Police, said friction from Honberg's spinning rear wheels, mired in the snow, apparently set the tires on fire and these set the rest of the vehicle ablaze. The front tires did not burn.
Honberg, a bachelor, visited a brother, Peter, Sunday at the latter's home on remote, rugged Stonington Peninsula, which separates Little Bay de Noc from Big Bay de Noc at the top of Lake Michigan. He left at 1 p.m. to return home.
When Honberg failed to report for school Monday, officials reported him missing. His body was found about 4 p.m. Monday by State Police and conservation agents who had mounted a search.
Sgt. Van Sipe said wandering footprints in snow atop the cliff indicared Honberg became confused in attempting to walk back to his brother's home and became lost.
Tracks, the sergeant said, led from Honberg's burned out automobile at the end of a country road to the spot he toppled over the cliff.
-- Ironwood Daily Globe, 16 Dec 1969
Gladstone (AP) – Apparently having become lost in a snow-filled, rugged countryside after his car burned, a 63 year-old Gladstone schoolteacher was found dead by searchers at the foot of a 30-foot cliff.
Medical examiners ruled that George Honberg, a sixth-grade teacher, died of a broken neck suffered in a fall from the cliff.
Sgt. R. H. Sipe, commander of the Gladstone State Police, said friction from Honberg's spinning rear wheels, mired in the snow, apparently set the tires on fire and these set the rest of the vehicle ablaze. The front tires did not burn.
Honberg, a bachelor, visited a brother, Peter, Sunday at the latter's home on remote, rugged Stonington Peninsula, which separates Little Bay de Noc from Big Bay de Noc at the top of Lake Michigan. He left at 1 p.m. to return home.
When Honberg failed to report for school Monday, officials reported him missing. His body was found about 4 p.m. Monday by State Police and conservation agents who had mounted a search.
Sgt. Van Sipe said wandering footprints in snow atop the cliff indicared Honberg became confused in attempting to walk back to his brother's home and became lost.
Tracks, the sergeant said, led from Honberg's burned out automobile at the end of a country road to the spot he toppled over the cliff.
-- Ironwood Daily Globe, 16 Dec 1969
Gladstone Man Dies in Snow
Gladstone (AP) – Apparently having become lost in a snow-filled, rugged countryside after his car burned, a 63 year-old Gladstone schoolteacher was found dead by searchers at the foot of a 30-foot cliff.
Medical examiners ruled that George Honberg, a sixth-grade teacher, died of a broken neck suffered in a fall from the cliff.
Sgt. R. H. Sipe, commander of the Gladstone State Police, said friction from Honberg's spinning rear wheels, mired in the snow, apparently set the tires on fire and these set the rest of the vehicle ablaze. The front tires did not burn.
Honberg, a bachelor, visited a brother, Peter, Sunday at the latter's home on remote, rugged Stonington Peninsula, which separates Little Bay de Noc from Big Bay de Noc at the top of Lake Michigan. He left at 1 p.m. to return home.
When Honberg failed to report for school Monday, officials reported him missing. His body was found about 4 p.m. Monday by State Police and conservation agents who had mounted a search.
Sgt. Van Sipe said wandering footprints in snow atop the cliff indicared Honberg became confused in attempting to walk back to his brother's home and became lost.
Tracks, the sergeant said, led from Honberg's burned out automobile at the end of a country road to the spot he toppled over the cliff.
-- Ironwood Daily Globe, 16 Dec 1969
Gladstone (AP) – Apparently having become lost in a snow-filled, rugged countryside after his car burned, a 63 year-old Gladstone schoolteacher was found dead by searchers at the foot of a 30-foot cliff.
Medical examiners ruled that George Honberg, a sixth-grade teacher, died of a broken neck suffered in a fall from the cliff.
Sgt. R. H. Sipe, commander of the Gladstone State Police, said friction from Honberg's spinning rear wheels, mired in the snow, apparently set the tires on fire and these set the rest of the vehicle ablaze. The front tires did not burn.
Honberg, a bachelor, visited a brother, Peter, Sunday at the latter's home on remote, rugged Stonington Peninsula, which separates Little Bay de Noc from Big Bay de Noc at the top of Lake Michigan. He left at 1 p.m. to return home.
When Honberg failed to report for school Monday, officials reported him missing. His body was found about 4 p.m. Monday by State Police and conservation agents who had mounted a search.
Sgt. Van Sipe said wandering footprints in snow atop the cliff indicared Honberg became confused in attempting to walk back to his brother's home and became lost.
Tracks, the sergeant said, led from Honberg's burned out automobile at the end of a country road to the spot he toppled over the cliff.
-- Ironwood Daily Globe, 16 Dec 1969
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