ROBERT DEROSIER
(1898 - 1959)
Man Killed In Mishap
CHILTON (Special)—Calumet County recorded its sixth highway death of the year over the weekend to tie its traffic fatality toll for the 12 months of 1958.
Latest victim was Robert DeRosier, 61, of 232 West Ave., Manitowoc, who was killed late Saturday afternoon in an accident about a half mile east of here.
DeRosier’s northbound car left a curve on County Trunk Y about 4:15 p.m. and smashed into the corner of a tavern building in the hamlet of Gravesville.
Sheriff C.J. Kosmosky reported that the steering wheel of the car crushed the driver’s chest, broke his ribs and punctured his heart, causing almost instantaneous death.
He quoted traffic officers as saying that the car careened out of control on the curve, ploughed into a ditch, hit a utility pole guy wire and then came to a screeching halt against the side of the tavern building.
The accident occurred only two blocks from a home at Gravesville where DeRosier was going to pick up his invalid wife, Queen, a victim of polio. Mrs. DeRosier is a former Gravesville school teacher.
Only seconds before the car hit the building, Chilton Postmaster Claude J. Weber, a pedestrian, snatched his 5-year-old son, John, out of the path of the caroming auto.
Both escaped injury.
Weber told traffic officers that the car was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed at the time it smashed into the corner of the tavern building.
That led to speculation that DeRosier may have been stricken with a heart attack at the wheel of his car in which he was traveling alone. But LeRoy Hughes, Calumet County coroner, concurred with the subsequent finding of a pathologist at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, that death was the result of accident injuries.
Damage to the tavern building owned by Ormie Schley of Gravesville, was slight.
In addition to the excessive chest injuries, DeRosier also suffered facial bone and facial lacerations. He was employed as a machinist at the Manitowoc Equipment Works.
His survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert Jr. of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Richard, with the U.S. Air Force at Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Gene Hagberg of Oakland, Calif.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Clifford of Superior, Wis., and George of Klamath Falls, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Lauver of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Arthur Gorman, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Urbanek & Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc. Burial will be in the Kossuth Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Sheboygan Press, Monday, July 13, 1959 P. 1
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(1898 - 1959)
Man Killed In Mishap
CHILTON (Special)—Calumet County recorded its sixth highway death of the year over the weekend to tie its traffic fatality toll for the 12 months of 1958.
Latest victim was Robert DeRosier, 61, of 232 West Ave., Manitowoc, who was killed late Saturday afternoon in an accident about a half mile east of here.
DeRosier’s northbound car left a curve on County Trunk Y about 4:15 p.m. and smashed into the corner of a tavern building in the hamlet of Gravesville.
Sheriff C.J. Kosmosky reported that the steering wheel of the car crushed the driver’s chest, broke his ribs and punctured his heart, causing almost instantaneous death.
He quoted traffic officers as saying that the car careened out of control on the curve, ploughed into a ditch, hit a utility pole guy wire and then came to a screeching halt against the side of the tavern building.
The accident occurred only two blocks from a home at Gravesville where DeRosier was going to pick up his invalid wife, Queen, a victim of polio. Mrs. DeRosier is a former Gravesville school teacher.
Only seconds before the car hit the building, Chilton Postmaster Claude J. Weber, a pedestrian, snatched his 5-year-old son, John, out of the path of the caroming auto.
Both escaped injury.
Weber told traffic officers that the car was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed at the time it smashed into the corner of the tavern building.
That led to speculation that DeRosier may have been stricken with a heart attack at the wheel of his car in which he was traveling alone. But LeRoy Hughes, Calumet County coroner, concurred with the subsequent finding of a pathologist at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, that death was the result of accident injuries.
Damage to the tavern building owned by Ormie Schley of Gravesville, was slight.
In addition to the excessive chest injuries, DeRosier also suffered facial bone and facial lacerations. He was employed as a machinist at the Manitowoc Equipment Works.
His survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert Jr. of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Richard, with the U.S. Air Force at Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Gene Hagberg of Oakland, Calif.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Clifford of Superior, Wis., and George of Klamath Falls, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Lauver of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Arthur Gorman, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Urbanek & Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc. Burial will be in the Kossuth Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Sheboygan Press, Monday, July 13, 1959 P. 1
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ROBERT DEROSIER
(1898 - 1959)
Man Killed In Mishap
CHILTON (Special)—Calumet County recorded its sixth highway death of the year over the weekend to tie its traffic fatality toll for the 12 months of 1958.
Latest victim was Robert DeRosier, 61, of 232 West Ave., Manitowoc, who was killed late Saturday afternoon in an accident about a half mile east of here.
DeRosier’s northbound car left a curve on County Trunk Y about 4:15 p.m. and smashed into the corner of a tavern building in the hamlet of Gravesville.
Sheriff C.J. Kosmosky reported that the steering wheel of the car crushed the driver’s chest, broke his ribs and punctured his heart, causing almost instantaneous death.
He quoted traffic officers as saying that the car careened out of control on the curve, ploughed into a ditch, hit a utility pole guy wire and then came to a screeching halt against the side of the tavern building.
The accident occurred only two blocks from a home at Gravesville where DeRosier was going to pick up his invalid wife, Queen, a victim of polio. Mrs. DeRosier is a former Gravesville school teacher.
Only seconds before the car hit the building, Chilton Postmaster Claude J. Weber, a pedestrian, snatched his 5-year-old son, John, out of the path of the caroming auto.
Both escaped injury.
Weber told traffic officers that the car was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed at the time it smashed into the corner of the tavern building.
That led to speculation that DeRosier may have been stricken with a heart attack at the wheel of his car in which he was traveling alone. But LeRoy Hughes, Calumet County coroner, concurred with the subsequent finding of a pathologist at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, that death was the result of accident injuries.
Damage to the tavern building owned by Ormie Schley of Gravesville, was slight.
In addition to the excessive chest injuries, DeRosier also suffered facial bone and facial lacerations. He was employed as a machinist at the Manitowoc Equipment Works.
His survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert Jr. of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Richard, with the U.S. Air Force at Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Gene Hagberg of Oakland, Calif.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Clifford of Superior, Wis., and George of Klamath Falls, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Lauver of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Arthur Gorman, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Urbanek & Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc. Burial will be in the Kossuth Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Sheboygan Press, Monday, July 13, 1959 P. 1
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(1898 - 1959)
Man Killed In Mishap
CHILTON (Special)—Calumet County recorded its sixth highway death of the year over the weekend to tie its traffic fatality toll for the 12 months of 1958.
Latest victim was Robert DeRosier, 61, of 232 West Ave., Manitowoc, who was killed late Saturday afternoon in an accident about a half mile east of here.
DeRosier’s northbound car left a curve on County Trunk Y about 4:15 p.m. and smashed into the corner of a tavern building in the hamlet of Gravesville.
Sheriff C.J. Kosmosky reported that the steering wheel of the car crushed the driver’s chest, broke his ribs and punctured his heart, causing almost instantaneous death.
He quoted traffic officers as saying that the car careened out of control on the curve, ploughed into a ditch, hit a utility pole guy wire and then came to a screeching halt against the side of the tavern building.
The accident occurred only two blocks from a home at Gravesville where DeRosier was going to pick up his invalid wife, Queen, a victim of polio. Mrs. DeRosier is a former Gravesville school teacher.
Only seconds before the car hit the building, Chilton Postmaster Claude J. Weber, a pedestrian, snatched his 5-year-old son, John, out of the path of the caroming auto.
Both escaped injury.
Weber told traffic officers that the car was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed at the time it smashed into the corner of the tavern building.
That led to speculation that DeRosier may have been stricken with a heart attack at the wheel of his car in which he was traveling alone. But LeRoy Hughes, Calumet County coroner, concurred with the subsequent finding of a pathologist at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, that death was the result of accident injuries.
Damage to the tavern building owned by Ormie Schley of Gravesville, was slight.
In addition to the excessive chest injuries, DeRosier also suffered facial bone and facial lacerations. He was employed as a machinist at the Manitowoc Equipment Works.
His survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert Jr. of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Richard, with the U.S. Air Force at Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Gene Hagberg of Oakland, Calif.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Clifford of Superior, Wis., and George of Klamath Falls, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Lauver of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs. Arthur Gorman, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Urbanek & Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc. Burial will be in the Kossuth Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Sheboygan Press, Monday, July 13, 1959 P. 1
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