Death Notice, The Hawk Eye, August 18, 1980; Burlington, Iowa:

2-Car Collision Fatal to 6

Pekin (IA) -- Six persons died in a two-car crash in Keokuk county about 8:45 p.m. Sunday, the Iowa State Patrol said.

Those killed in one of the cars in the collision 60 miles northwest of Burlington were three Hawk Eyelanders - Mrs. Marguerite M. Hoambrecker, 69, of 625 South Garfield; her brother-in-law and sister, Gail F. Bowlyow, 63, and Betty Bowlyow, 55, Lomax, Illinois - and the Bowlyows' grandson, Kent Alan Bowlyow, 12, Takoma Park, Maryland, who was spending the summer with them.

Authorities said Mrs. Hoambrecker and the Bowlyows were thrown from the car and were dead at the scene.

Charlene Rich, 21, Washington, died in Keokuk County hospital at Sigourney; Pamela Jean Nicholson, 25, Washington, died at University hospitals, Iowa City, where she had been taken by air ambulance. Both Washington women had to be pried from their auto by the Keokuk county rescue unit's "Jaws of Life" tool.

The accident was the worst in Keokuk county since the mid-1950s, when eight members of the Richard Hammes family perished near Sigourney.

Officials said the Washingtonians' northbound car apparently failed to halt at a stop sign at Iowa 78 and a county road just north of Pekin and collided with the Bowlyow vehicle.

They were unable to determine whether Mr. or Mrs. Bowlyow was driving the Illinois vehicle, but assumed Mrs. Bowlyow was because, relatives reported, she usually did.

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Obituary, The Hawk Eye, August 18, 1980; Burlington, Iowa:

Marguerite M. Hoambrecker was born at Mt. Hamill August 7, 1911, to W. Riley and Florence E. Magerkurth Glendening. She married Carl Hoambrecker July 4, 1931, in Burlington; he died in 1972.

A retired chemist for US Borax Company at Burlington, she had lived at Lomax before moving to Burlington three years ago. She was a member of the Carman United Methodist church.

Surviving: son Donald Hoambrecker, Keokuk, Iowa; her stepmother, Flossie Glendening; two brothers, seven sisters, a stepsister, four grandchildren, five step-grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

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Funeral Notice, The Hawk Eye, August 19, 1980; Burlington, Iowa:

Marguerite Hoambrecker, Gail & Betty Bowlyow, Kent Alan Bowlyow

Stronghurst (IL) -- A joint funeral for four persons who died in a traffic accident in Keokuk county, Iowa, Sunday, August 17, will be held in Southern High School gymnasium at 11 a.m. Thursday.

The Reverend James Kiefer will conduct services for Mrs. Marguerite M. Hoambrecker, 69, of 625 South Garfield, Burlington; Gail F. Bowlyow, 63, and wife Betty L. Bowlyow, 55, Lomax rural; and Kent Alan Bowlyow, 12-year-old grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Bowlyow, of Takoma Park, Maryland.

Burial will be in Carman cemetery. The bodies are at Banks & Beals funeral home, where memorials to the Carman United Methodist church have been established.

-added at the request of DW Brumm (#47781608)