BODY OF MISSING DAVENPORT BOY, 9, FOUND IN MISSISSIPPI
Finding of the body of Russell Brunson, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill D. Brunson, 820 Charlotte Avenue, in the Mississippi River near the sea wall at the foot of Oneida Avenue at 4:55 p.m. Monday terminated a search which started Sunday night after the boy failed to return home.
So far as authorities could learn, the boy was alone at the time he fell into the river. he could not swim, his father reported.
His body was found by Sheriff Walter Bouse and Patrolman James Stowe two hours after grappling hooks were used to drag the river. Members of the Rock Island rescue squad joined local men in dragging operations.
When the boy failed to return home, Sunday night, police were notified. Monday it was believed for a time that he might have gone into the country with a chum who went to visit at the home of an uncle, but it was learned the Brunson boy did not go into the country.
His shoes were found along the sea wall at the foot of Oneida avenue early Monday afternoon and search for his body was started soon after that.
Born Dec. 1, 1933, in Davenport, the youth was a student in the third grade at Lincoln school. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Mrs. Lorraine Powell, Illinois City, Ill., and Clodene Brunson, at home; three brothers, Merrill D. Brunson, Jr. Milan and David Lee and Carl R. Brunson, both at home, and his matrnal grandfather, A. W. Duhn, Geneseo, Ill.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hill & Fredericks chapel. The body will be taken to the family residence Wednesday morning and returned to the mortuary later that day.
Place of burial will be announced later.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
May 26, 1942 page 1 (Noted in May 28, 1942 paper, page 11, he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery)
Finding of the body of Russell Brunson, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill D. Brunson, 820 Charlotte Avenue, in the Mississippi River near the sea wall at the foot of Oneida Avenue at 4:55 p.m. Monday terminated a search which started Sunday night after the boy failed to return home.
So far as authorities could learn, the boy was alone at the time he fell into the river. he could not swim, his father reported.
His body was found by Sheriff Walter Bouse and Patrolman James Stowe two hours after grappling hooks were used to drag the river. Members of the Rock Island rescue squad joined local men in dragging operations.
When the boy failed to return home, Sunday night, police were notified. Monday it was believed for a time that he might have gone into the country with a chum who went to visit at the home of an uncle, but it was learned the Brunson boy did not go into the country.
His shoes were found along the sea wall at the foot of Oneida avenue early Monday afternoon and search for his body was started soon after that.
Born Dec. 1, 1933, in Davenport, the youth was a student in the third grade at Lincoln school. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Mrs. Lorraine Powell, Illinois City, Ill., and Clodene Brunson, at home; three brothers, Merrill D. Brunson, Jr. Milan and David Lee and Carl R. Brunson, both at home, and his matrnal grandfather, A. W. Duhn, Geneseo, Ill.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hill & Fredericks chapel. The body will be taken to the family residence Wednesday morning and returned to the mortuary later that day.
Place of burial will be announced later.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
May 26, 1942 page 1 (Noted in May 28, 1942 paper, page 11, he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery)
BODY OF MISSING DAVENPORT BOY, 9, FOUND IN MISSISSIPPI
Finding of the body of Russell Brunson, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill D. Brunson, 820 Charlotte Avenue, in the Mississippi River near the sea wall at the foot of Oneida Avenue at 4:55 p.m. Monday terminated a search which started Sunday night after the boy failed to return home.
So far as authorities could learn, the boy was alone at the time he fell into the river. he could not swim, his father reported.
His body was found by Sheriff Walter Bouse and Patrolman James Stowe two hours after grappling hooks were used to drag the river. Members of the Rock Island rescue squad joined local men in dragging operations.
When the boy failed to return home, Sunday night, police were notified. Monday it was believed for a time that he might have gone into the country with a chum who went to visit at the home of an uncle, but it was learned the Brunson boy did not go into the country.
His shoes were found along the sea wall at the foot of Oneida avenue early Monday afternoon and search for his body was started soon after that.
Born Dec. 1, 1933, in Davenport, the youth was a student in the third grade at Lincoln school. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Mrs. Lorraine Powell, Illinois City, Ill., and Clodene Brunson, at home; three brothers, Merrill D. Brunson, Jr. Milan and David Lee and Carl R. Brunson, both at home, and his matrnal grandfather, A. W. Duhn, Geneseo, Ill.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hill & Fredericks chapel. The body will be taken to the family residence Wednesday morning and returned to the mortuary later that day.
Place of burial will be announced later.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
May 26, 1942 page 1 (Noted in May 28, 1942 paper, page 11, he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery)
Finding of the body of Russell Brunson, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill D. Brunson, 820 Charlotte Avenue, in the Mississippi River near the sea wall at the foot of Oneida Avenue at 4:55 p.m. Monday terminated a search which started Sunday night after the boy failed to return home.
So far as authorities could learn, the boy was alone at the time he fell into the river. he could not swim, his father reported.
His body was found by Sheriff Walter Bouse and Patrolman James Stowe two hours after grappling hooks were used to drag the river. Members of the Rock Island rescue squad joined local men in dragging operations.
When the boy failed to return home, Sunday night, police were notified. Monday it was believed for a time that he might have gone into the country with a chum who went to visit at the home of an uncle, but it was learned the Brunson boy did not go into the country.
His shoes were found along the sea wall at the foot of Oneida avenue early Monday afternoon and search for his body was started soon after that.
Born Dec. 1, 1933, in Davenport, the youth was a student in the third grade at Lincoln school. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Mrs. Lorraine Powell, Illinois City, Ill., and Clodene Brunson, at home; three brothers, Merrill D. Brunson, Jr. Milan and David Lee and Carl R. Brunson, both at home, and his matrnal grandfather, A. W. Duhn, Geneseo, Ill.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hill & Fredericks chapel. The body will be taken to the family residence Wednesday morning and returned to the mortuary later that day.
Place of burial will be announced later.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
May 26, 1942 page 1 (Noted in May 28, 1942 paper, page 11, he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery)
