From the Waterloo Daily Courier, 14 May 1970
Clarksviile Youth Killed in Crash
CEDAR FALLS — The Iowa Highway Patrol Thursday morning reported the death of an 18-year-old Clarksviile youth as the result of a two car headon collision three miles west of Shell Rock on Highway 3.
The patrol identified the dead youth as Thomas Henry Ahrens of Clarksviile.
It was reported that Ahrens was traveling east on the highway and was passing a truck driven by William Francis Hillsman, 34, of 3304 Randolph St., Waterloo, when his car collided with another vehicle driven by Thomas R. Weil, 39, of Chicago. Both cars were demolished when they hit headon.
Weil, it was reported, suffered, head cuts, bruises and abrasions.
Ahrens was taken first to the hospital in Waverly and then transferred to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. He died at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Services for the victim are pending at the Schwartz Funeral Home in Clarksviile. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Viola Ahrens, a sister, Mrs. Charles Woodman, Waterloo.
From the Waterloo Daily Courier, 14 May 1970
Clarksviile Youth Killed in Crash
CEDAR FALLS — The Iowa Highway Patrol Thursday morning reported the death of an 18-year-old Clarksviile youth as the result of a two car headon collision three miles west of Shell Rock on Highway 3.
The patrol identified the dead youth as Thomas Henry Ahrens of Clarksviile.
It was reported that Ahrens was traveling east on the highway and was passing a truck driven by William Francis Hillsman, 34, of 3304 Randolph St., Waterloo, when his car collided with another vehicle driven by Thomas R. Weil, 39, of Chicago. Both cars were demolished when they hit headon.
Weil, it was reported, suffered, head cuts, bruises and abrasions.
Ahrens was taken first to the hospital in Waverly and then transferred to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. He died at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Services for the victim are pending at the Schwartz Funeral Home in Clarksviile. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Viola Ahrens, a sister, Mrs. Charles Woodman, Waterloo.
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