OBITUARY FROM 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: Funeral services for Leroy Schenck, who died Tuesday morning, December 15, 1936, in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from severe burns and injuries received when his truck collided with a train on Monday, were held at the cahpel of the Robarts Funeral Home last Saturday, December 19, 1936 at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J.J. Richardss. Burial was in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Besides his widow, he is survived by two sons, Carroll and J.C. and one daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and one brother and sister in Minnesota.
ARTICLE FROM THE 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: LEROY SCHENCK DIES IN TRAIN COLLISION - Truck He Was Driving Crashes Into Train Near Troy, Alabama.
Leroy Schenck of Fergus Falls, MN who owns a home at Cubitis and who has been a winter resident here for several years, died Tuesday morning in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from injuries and severe burns received Monday afternoon when his truck collided with a train near Troy.
Mr. Schenck left Arcadia last Sunday morning with a truck load of fruit on his way to Mississippi. Details of the accident were not known, the word coming to his family here late Monday afternoon by long distance telephone. Mrs. Schenck accompanied by Wilfrid Robarts and George Smith in the Robarts Funeral Home ambulance, left late Tuesday afternoon for Troy to accompany the body to Arcadia. Word was received from them last night at Alachua, and they were expected to arrive here around noon today.
Mr. Schenck was born in Wilkins County, MN and besides his widow, he leaves to survive two sons, Carroll and J.C.; a daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and a sister in Minnesota.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Robarts Chapel. Further details were not arranged at the time the paper went to press.
Roy is the father of Dauphine Helen Schenck-Gross-Grimsley and the grandfather of Helen Dauphine Gross-Parkyn-Duncan.
ARTICLE FROM THE 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: LEROY SCHENCK DIES IN TRAIN COLLISION - Truck He Was Driving Crashes Into Train Near Troy, Alabama.
Leroy Schenck of Fergus Falls, MN who owns a home at Cubitis and who has been a winter resident here for several years, died Tuesday morning in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from injuries and severe burns received Monday afternoon when his truck collided with a train near Troy.
Mr. Schenck left Arcadia last Sunday morning with a truck load of fruit on his way to Mississippi. Details of the accident were not known, the word coming to his family here late Monday afternoon by long distance telephone. Mrs. Schenck accompanied by Wilfrid Robarts and George Smith in the Robarts Funeral Home ambulance, left late Tuesday afternoon for Troy to accompany the body to Arcadia. Word was received from them last night at Alachua, and they were expected to arrive here around noon today.
Mr. Schenck was born in Wilkins County, MN and besides his widow, he leaves to survive two sons, Carroll and J.C.; a daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and a sister in Minnesota.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Robarts Chapel. Further details were not arranged at the time the paper went to press.
Roy is the father of Dauphine Helen Schenck-Gross-Grimsley and the grandfather of Helen Dauphine Gross-Parkyn-Duncan.
OBITUARY FROM 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: Funeral services for Leroy Schenck, who died Tuesday morning, December 15, 1936, in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from severe burns and injuries received when his truck collided with a train on Monday, were held at the cahpel of the Robarts Funeral Home last Saturday, December 19, 1936 at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J.J. Richardss. Burial was in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Besides his widow, he is survived by two sons, Carroll and J.C. and one daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and one brother and sister in Minnesota.
ARTICLE FROM THE 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: LEROY SCHENCK DIES IN TRAIN COLLISION - Truck He Was Driving Crashes Into Train Near Troy, Alabama.
Leroy Schenck of Fergus Falls, MN who owns a home at Cubitis and who has been a winter resident here for several years, died Tuesday morning in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from injuries and severe burns received Monday afternoon when his truck collided with a train near Troy.
Mr. Schenck left Arcadia last Sunday morning with a truck load of fruit on his way to Mississippi. Details of the accident were not known, the word coming to his family here late Monday afternoon by long distance telephone. Mrs. Schenck accompanied by Wilfrid Robarts and George Smith in the Robarts Funeral Home ambulance, left late Tuesday afternoon for Troy to accompany the body to Arcadia. Word was received from them last night at Alachua, and they were expected to arrive here around noon today.
Mr. Schenck was born in Wilkins County, MN and besides his widow, he leaves to survive two sons, Carroll and J.C.; a daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and a sister in Minnesota.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Robarts Chapel. Further details were not arranged at the time the paper went to press.
Roy is the father of Dauphine Helen Schenck-Gross-Grimsley and the grandfather of Helen Dauphine Gross-Parkyn-Duncan.
ARTICLE FROM THE 1936 ARCADIAN NEWSPAPER: LEROY SCHENCK DIES IN TRAIN COLLISION - Truck He Was Driving Crashes Into Train Near Troy, Alabama.
Leroy Schenck of Fergus Falls, MN who owns a home at Cubitis and who has been a winter resident here for several years, died Tuesday morning in a hospital in Troy, Alabama from injuries and severe burns received Monday afternoon when his truck collided with a train near Troy.
Mr. Schenck left Arcadia last Sunday morning with a truck load of fruit on his way to Mississippi. Details of the accident were not known, the word coming to his family here late Monday afternoon by long distance telephone. Mrs. Schenck accompanied by Wilfrid Robarts and George Smith in the Robarts Funeral Home ambulance, left late Tuesday afternoon for Troy to accompany the body to Arcadia. Word was received from them last night at Alachua, and they were expected to arrive here around noon today.
Mr. Schenck was born in Wilkins County, MN and besides his widow, he leaves to survive two sons, Carroll and J.C.; a daughter, Dauphine, all at home; one brother in California and a sister in Minnesota.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Robarts Chapel. Further details were not arranged at the time the paper went to press.
Roy is the father of Dauphine Helen Schenck-Gross-Grimsley and the grandfather of Helen Dauphine Gross-Parkyn-Duncan.
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