FRANK GEIGER

Auto Crash Fatal To Town Assessor
Frank Geiger, 36, Maple Grove town assessor and prominent farmer, was
fatally injured early Saturday evening when the car in which he was a
passenger was sideswiped by another machine on a highway three miles
northeast of the village of Brillion.
Geiger, who sustained a fractured skull and a broken arm, died 10 hours
later in a Green Bay hospital.
Tossed Against Windshield
The dead man was en route north with Herman Strobel, Brillion cheesemaker,
on a hunting trip in the latter's car when the accident happened. The
Strobel machine, bound north on the former Highway 10 route, met a car
driven by Theodore Kersten, Hollandtown. The machines, in endeavoring to
pass each other, sideswiped and Geiger was thrown violently against the
windshield.
An ambulance summoned from Brillion conveyed Geiger to a Green Bay hospital.
He died Sunday morning. Mr. Kersten, driver of the other machine, sustained
several broken ribs and internal injuries. Strobel was only slightly hurt.
Kersten and Strobel were taken to the office of a Forest Junction physician
to have their injuries cared for.
Both automobiles were badly wrecked although neither machine overturned.
Funeral services for Mr. Geiger will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. from the
St. Mary's Catholic church at Brillion. Interment will be in the Kasson
cemetery.
The deceased was born in the
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town of Maple Grove in 1899 and always resided there. For many years he has
operated a farm three and a half miles northeast of Brillion. He was a member
of the Holy Name society and the Catholic Knights.
Mr. Geiger was serving his second term as assessor of the town of Maple Grove.
He was married Oct. 19, 1926 to Mary Dvorachek, at Reedsville.
Survivors are his widow; two daughters, Alice and Audrey; four sons, Harold,
Norman, Raymond and Francis; five brothers, Henry, George, John, Edward, and
Emery, Brillion; six sisters, Mrs. Clara Laurson, Menasha, Mrs. May Cummings,
Chicago, Lena, Maple Grove, Mrs. Celia Pritzl and Mathilda, city, Mrs. Eleanor
Rappel, Sheboygan; and a mother, Mrs. Mary Geiger, Brillion.
Manitowoc Herald Times, December 2, 1935 pp. 1, 9
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