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Edna Brack was born April 25, 1917 in Rush County, KS and baptized at St. Paul in 1917. Edna died tragically in a car accident on June 3, 1939 near LaCrosse, KS. She had one son.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCrosse Republican
Car Crash Near Here Fatal to Edna Brack
Charles Morrison Injured When Car Gets Out of Control and Overturns
A car speeding in an attempt to pass two other cars about one mile south of here Saturday night, careened into the ditch and rolled over three times, throwing out its two occupants, Edna Brack, 22, of Rush Center and Charles Morrison, 21, of LaCrosse. Miss Brack suffered critical injuries as the car rolled over her and she died a few minutes after the accident. Morrison was brought to the Baker Hospital here where he was treated for severe lacerations and bruises. He was released from the Hospital Tuesday evening.
A. W. Carbaugh said he was in the front yard of his home when the accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock Saturday night.
"I was sitting out here with Herman Tindall when we heard a car coming from the south," Carbaugh said. "We both thought it must hae been traveling at a high rate of speed, as we could hear the tires singing on the roadbed. When it was a little more than a mile south of town, the lights seemed to shoot upwards all of a sudden and a few seconds later we heard a noise as if fenders of cars had hit together."
"We jumped in my car and got there before the car had quit rolling, almost, and we found both Miss Brack and Morrison were lying on the ground and the car was a total wreck."
The two persons were brought to the hosital here where Miss Brack died within a few minutes.
According to Morrison, he had driven to Rush Center to get Miss Brack and they were returning to LaCrosse to go to a show. "I just pulled to the left to go around a car in front of me," he said, "when all of a sudden the car I was going to pass pulled to the left to go around a car in front of it. I was about even with the car I was passing then, and was unable to slow down and get back on the road, so took to the west ditch. The car started swerving then and that is all I remember."
Tracks on the road showed he traveled some distance with the left wheels of his car in the ditch, which at that place was wide and shallow, and would carry a car going at a high rate of speed. A raise on the ditch for a drive into a farm yard threw his car out of balance and swerved it across the road to the east in front of the two cars he was passing. For a distance of about 240 feet his car slid sideways traveling across the road from west to east, and when the car went into the east ditch, it started rolling sideways, continuing north. Three rolls of the car took it a distance of about 80 feet and it landed on the wheels.
Miss Brack's position on the ground indicated she had gone out on the first roll and Morrison was expelled from the car on the second roll.
Rex Moore of McPherson, who was visiting at Rush Center over the weekend, ws driving the second car, and Bob Trout of Rush Center, who drove te first car, said they were in a precarious position as the Morrison car swerved across in front of them. They did not run together however. The estimated speed of Trout was around 40 miles, and Moore said he thought he was traveling about 50. The other car, they said, was going considerably faster.
It was reported Miss Brack suffered a fractured skull, fracture of the left leg, crushed chest, and a large hole was made in her back into the chest cavity.
Morrison had bought the car, a 1938 model Ford coach, and it was wrecked so badly as to be classed as "junk" by Carbaugh. The top was mashed in, doors were telescoped, and glass was broken from nearly all the windows.
Miss Brack leaves her mother, Mrs. John Brack of Rush Center, her father, John Brack of Otis, Mack Brack, 3, four sisters: Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Bill Oetkins (sic) of Nekoma, Mrs. Elsie Glazner of Wellington and Mrs. Mildred Jones of Ft. Morgan, Colo., and three brothers; Walter of the home, Ted, of Hutchinson; and Abe of Gilcrest, Colo.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCross Republican
Edna Brack
Edna, the youngest daughter of John P. and Justina Brack was born at Otis, Kansas, on April 25, 1917. Her childhood was spent in that community, but some fifteen years ago, she came with her parents to Rush Center, Kansas. Since that time, she has resided in this community. She began her grade school education in Rush Center school and after the necessary number of years was graduated with her class. That class entered the LaCrosse High School the following fall and Edna continued with them for two years. At that time she was compelled to stop her schooling and seek employment, so as to supplement the family income.
Edna had worked hard and struggled at some odds to make a go of her responsibilities. She had worked patiently at the job. She never asked for sympathy. She just asked for a chance. She had been happy making plans for the future. But those plans were interrupted by her tragic death in a car accident near LaCrosse last Saturday evening. She had lived only 22 years, 1 month, and 8 days.
Edna leaves to mourn her very untimely death: her son, Mack Mervin; her parents, John P. and Justina Brack; her sisters, Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center,; Mrs. Bill Oetkins of Nekoma; Mrs. A. V. Glasener of Wellington, Kansas; and Mrs. POaul Jones of Fort Morgan, Colorado; Walter of Rush Center; and Theodore of Hutchinson, Kansas; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Rush Center Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Ray B. Bressler in charge. The music was furnished at the Rush Center mixed quartette composed of Mrs. L. D. Scandrett, Miss Edith Swob, Clyde Smith and LeRoy Dixon. Mrs. Virgil Barnes accompanied at the piano. Pittman and Pittman were the undertakers. The pall bearers were Johnny Oetkins, Chester Fulkerson, Elmer Brack, Harvey Wagner, Guy and Kenneth Barnes. Interment was in the Locust Hill Cemetery at Rush Center.
Edna Brack was born April 25, 1917 in Rush County, KS and baptized at St. Paul in 1917. Edna died tragically in a car accident on June 3, 1939 near LaCrosse, KS. She had one son.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCrosse Republican
Car Crash Near Here Fatal to Edna Brack
Charles Morrison Injured When Car Gets Out of Control and Overturns
A car speeding in an attempt to pass two other cars about one mile south of here Saturday night, careened into the ditch and rolled over three times, throwing out its two occupants, Edna Brack, 22, of Rush Center and Charles Morrison, 21, of LaCrosse. Miss Brack suffered critical injuries as the car rolled over her and she died a few minutes after the accident. Morrison was brought to the Baker Hospital here where he was treated for severe lacerations and bruises. He was released from the Hospital Tuesday evening.
A. W. Carbaugh said he was in the front yard of his home when the accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock Saturday night.
"I was sitting out here with Herman Tindall when we heard a car coming from the south," Carbaugh said. "We both thought it must hae been traveling at a high rate of speed, as we could hear the tires singing on the roadbed. When it was a little more than a mile south of town, the lights seemed to shoot upwards all of a sudden and a few seconds later we heard a noise as if fenders of cars had hit together."
"We jumped in my car and got there before the car had quit rolling, almost, and we found both Miss Brack and Morrison were lying on the ground and the car was a total wreck."
The two persons were brought to the hosital here where Miss Brack died within a few minutes.
According to Morrison, he had driven to Rush Center to get Miss Brack and they were returning to LaCrosse to go to a show. "I just pulled to the left to go around a car in front of me," he said, "when all of a sudden the car I was going to pass pulled to the left to go around a car in front of it. I was about even with the car I was passing then, and was unable to slow down and get back on the road, so took to the west ditch. The car started swerving then and that is all I remember."
Tracks on the road showed he traveled some distance with the left wheels of his car in the ditch, which at that place was wide and shallow, and would carry a car going at a high rate of speed. A raise on the ditch for a drive into a farm yard threw his car out of balance and swerved it across the road to the east in front of the two cars he was passing. For a distance of about 240 feet his car slid sideways traveling across the road from west to east, and when the car went into the east ditch, it started rolling sideways, continuing north. Three rolls of the car took it a distance of about 80 feet and it landed on the wheels.
Miss Brack's position on the ground indicated she had gone out on the first roll and Morrison was expelled from the car on the second roll.
Rex Moore of McPherson, who was visiting at Rush Center over the weekend, ws driving the second car, and Bob Trout of Rush Center, who drove te first car, said they were in a precarious position as the Morrison car swerved across in front of them. They did not run together however. The estimated speed of Trout was around 40 miles, and Moore said he thought he was traveling about 50. The other car, they said, was going considerably faster.
It was reported Miss Brack suffered a fractured skull, fracture of the left leg, crushed chest, and a large hole was made in her back into the chest cavity.
Morrison had bought the car, a 1938 model Ford coach, and it was wrecked so badly as to be classed as "junk" by Carbaugh. The top was mashed in, doors were telescoped, and glass was broken from nearly all the windows.
Miss Brack leaves her mother, Mrs. John Brack of Rush Center, her father, John Brack of Otis, Mack Brack, 3, four sisters: Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Bill Oetkins (sic) of Nekoma, Mrs. Elsie Glazner of Wellington and Mrs. Mildred Jones of Ft. Morgan, Colo., and three brothers; Walter of the home, Ted, of Hutchinson; and Abe of Gilcrest, Colo.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCross Republican
Edna Brack
Edna, the youngest daughter of John P. and Justina Brack was born at Otis, Kansas, on April 25, 1917. Her childhood was spent in that community, but some fifteen years ago, she came with her parents to Rush Center, Kansas. Since that time, she has resided in this community. She began her grade school education in Rush Center school and after the necessary number of years was graduated with her class. That class entered the LaCrosse High School the following fall and Edna continued with them for two years. At that time she was compelled to stop her schooling and seek employment, so as to supplement the family income.
Edna had worked hard and struggled at some odds to make a go of her responsibilities. She had worked patiently at the job. She never asked for sympathy. She just asked for a chance. She had been happy making plans for the future. But those plans were interrupted by her tragic death in a car accident near LaCrosse last Saturday evening. She had lived only 22 years, 1 month, and 8 days.
Edna leaves to mourn her very untimely death: her son, Mack Mervin; her parents, John P. and Justina Brack; her sisters, Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center,; Mrs. Bill Oetkins of Nekoma; Mrs. A. V. Glasener of Wellington, Kansas; and Mrs. POaul Jones of Fort Morgan, Colorado; Walter of Rush Center; and Theodore of Hutchinson, Kansas; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Rush Center Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Ray B. Bressler in charge. The music was furnished at the Rush Center mixed quartette composed of Mrs. L. D. Scandrett, Miss Edith Swob, Clyde Smith and LeRoy Dixon. Mrs. Virgil Barnes accompanied at the piano. Pittman and Pittman were the undertakers. The pall bearers were Johnny Oetkins, Chester Fulkerson, Elmer Brack, Harvey Wagner, Guy and Kenneth Barnes. Interment was in the Locust Hill Cemetery at Rush Center.
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Edna Brack was born April 25, 1917 in Rush County, KS and baptized at St. Paul in 1917. Edna died tragically in a car accident on June 3, 1939 near LaCrosse, KS. She had one son.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCrosse Republican
Car Crash Near Here Fatal to Edna Brack
Charles Morrison Injured When Car Gets Out of Control and Overturns
A car speeding in an attempt to pass two other cars about one mile south of here Saturday night, careened into the ditch and rolled over three times, throwing out its two occupants, Edna Brack, 22, of Rush Center and Charles Morrison, 21, of LaCrosse. Miss Brack suffered critical injuries as the car rolled over her and she died a few minutes after the accident. Morrison was brought to the Baker Hospital here where he was treated for severe lacerations and bruises. He was released from the Hospital Tuesday evening.
A. W. Carbaugh said he was in the front yard of his home when the accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock Saturday night.
"I was sitting out here with Herman Tindall when we heard a car coming from the south," Carbaugh said. "We both thought it must hae been traveling at a high rate of speed, as we could hear the tires singing on the roadbed. When it was a little more than a mile south of town, the lights seemed to shoot upwards all of a sudden and a few seconds later we heard a noise as if fenders of cars had hit together."
"We jumped in my car and got there before the car had quit rolling, almost, and we found both Miss Brack and Morrison were lying on the ground and the car was a total wreck."
The two persons were brought to the hosital here where Miss Brack died within a few minutes.
According to Morrison, he had driven to Rush Center to get Miss Brack and they were returning to LaCrosse to go to a show. "I just pulled to the left to go around a car in front of me," he said, "when all of a sudden the car I was going to pass pulled to the left to go around a car in front of it. I was about even with the car I was passing then, and was unable to slow down and get back on the road, so took to the west ditch. The car started swerving then and that is all I remember."
Tracks on the road showed he traveled some distance with the left wheels of his car in the ditch, which at that place was wide and shallow, and would carry a car going at a high rate of speed. A raise on the ditch for a drive into a farm yard threw his car out of balance and swerved it across the road to the east in front of the two cars he was passing. For a distance of about 240 feet his car slid sideways traveling across the road from west to east, and when the car went into the east ditch, it started rolling sideways, continuing north. Three rolls of the car took it a distance of about 80 feet and it landed on the wheels.
Miss Brack's position on the ground indicated she had gone out on the first roll and Morrison was expelled from the car on the second roll.
Rex Moore of McPherson, who was visiting at Rush Center over the weekend, ws driving the second car, and Bob Trout of Rush Center, who drove te first car, said they were in a precarious position as the Morrison car swerved across in front of them. They did not run together however. The estimated speed of Trout was around 40 miles, and Moore said he thought he was traveling about 50. The other car, they said, was going considerably faster.
It was reported Miss Brack suffered a fractured skull, fracture of the left leg, crushed chest, and a large hole was made in her back into the chest cavity.
Morrison had bought the car, a 1938 model Ford coach, and it was wrecked so badly as to be classed as "junk" by Carbaugh. The top was mashed in, doors were telescoped, and glass was broken from nearly all the windows.
Miss Brack leaves her mother, Mrs. John Brack of Rush Center, her father, John Brack of Otis, Mack Brack, 3, four sisters: Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Bill Oetkins (sic) of Nekoma, Mrs. Elsie Glazner of Wellington and Mrs. Mildred Jones of Ft. Morgan, Colo., and three brothers; Walter of the home, Ted, of Hutchinson; and Abe of Gilcrest, Colo.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCross Republican
Edna Brack
Edna, the youngest daughter of John P. and Justina Brack was born at Otis, Kansas, on April 25, 1917. Her childhood was spent in that community, but some fifteen years ago, she came with her parents to Rush Center, Kansas. Since that time, she has resided in this community. She began her grade school education in Rush Center school and after the necessary number of years was graduated with her class. That class entered the LaCrosse High School the following fall and Edna continued with them for two years. At that time she was compelled to stop her schooling and seek employment, so as to supplement the family income.
Edna had worked hard and struggled at some odds to make a go of her responsibilities. She had worked patiently at the job. She never asked for sympathy. She just asked for a chance. She had been happy making plans for the future. But those plans were interrupted by her tragic death in a car accident near LaCrosse last Saturday evening. She had lived only 22 years, 1 month, and 8 days.
Edna leaves to mourn her very untimely death: her son, Mack Mervin; her parents, John P. and Justina Brack; her sisters, Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center,; Mrs. Bill Oetkins of Nekoma; Mrs. A. V. Glasener of Wellington, Kansas; and Mrs. POaul Jones of Fort Morgan, Colorado; Walter of Rush Center; and Theodore of Hutchinson, Kansas; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Rush Center Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Ray B. Bressler in charge. The music was furnished at the Rush Center mixed quartette composed of Mrs. L. D. Scandrett, Miss Edith Swob, Clyde Smith and LeRoy Dixon. Mrs. Virgil Barnes accompanied at the piano. Pittman and Pittman were the undertakers. The pall bearers were Johnny Oetkins, Chester Fulkerson, Elmer Brack, Harvey Wagner, Guy and Kenneth Barnes. Interment was in the Locust Hill Cemetery at Rush Center.
Edna Brack was born April 25, 1917 in Rush County, KS and baptized at St. Paul in 1917. Edna died tragically in a car accident on June 3, 1939 near LaCrosse, KS. She had one son.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCrosse Republican
Car Crash Near Here Fatal to Edna Brack
Charles Morrison Injured When Car Gets Out of Control and Overturns
A car speeding in an attempt to pass two other cars about one mile south of here Saturday night, careened into the ditch and rolled over three times, throwing out its two occupants, Edna Brack, 22, of Rush Center and Charles Morrison, 21, of LaCrosse. Miss Brack suffered critical injuries as the car rolled over her and she died a few minutes after the accident. Morrison was brought to the Baker Hospital here where he was treated for severe lacerations and bruises. He was released from the Hospital Tuesday evening.
A. W. Carbaugh said he was in the front yard of his home when the accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock Saturday night.
"I was sitting out here with Herman Tindall when we heard a car coming from the south," Carbaugh said. "We both thought it must hae been traveling at a high rate of speed, as we could hear the tires singing on the roadbed. When it was a little more than a mile south of town, the lights seemed to shoot upwards all of a sudden and a few seconds later we heard a noise as if fenders of cars had hit together."
"We jumped in my car and got there before the car had quit rolling, almost, and we found both Miss Brack and Morrison were lying on the ground and the car was a total wreck."
The two persons were brought to the hosital here where Miss Brack died within a few minutes.
According to Morrison, he had driven to Rush Center to get Miss Brack and they were returning to LaCrosse to go to a show. "I just pulled to the left to go around a car in front of me," he said, "when all of a sudden the car I was going to pass pulled to the left to go around a car in front of it. I was about even with the car I was passing then, and was unable to slow down and get back on the road, so took to the west ditch. The car started swerving then and that is all I remember."
Tracks on the road showed he traveled some distance with the left wheels of his car in the ditch, which at that place was wide and shallow, and would carry a car going at a high rate of speed. A raise on the ditch for a drive into a farm yard threw his car out of balance and swerved it across the road to the east in front of the two cars he was passing. For a distance of about 240 feet his car slid sideways traveling across the road from west to east, and when the car went into the east ditch, it started rolling sideways, continuing north. Three rolls of the car took it a distance of about 80 feet and it landed on the wheels.
Miss Brack's position on the ground indicated she had gone out on the first roll and Morrison was expelled from the car on the second roll.
Rex Moore of McPherson, who was visiting at Rush Center over the weekend, ws driving the second car, and Bob Trout of Rush Center, who drove te first car, said they were in a precarious position as the Morrison car swerved across in front of them. They did not run together however. The estimated speed of Trout was around 40 miles, and Moore said he thought he was traveling about 50. The other car, they said, was going considerably faster.
It was reported Miss Brack suffered a fractured skull, fracture of the left leg, crushed chest, and a large hole was made in her back into the chest cavity.
Morrison had bought the car, a 1938 model Ford coach, and it was wrecked so badly as to be classed as "junk" by Carbaugh. The top was mashed in, doors were telescoped, and glass was broken from nearly all the windows.
Miss Brack leaves her mother, Mrs. John Brack of Rush Center, her father, John Brack of Otis, Mack Brack, 3, four sisters: Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Bill Oetkins (sic) of Nekoma, Mrs. Elsie Glazner of Wellington and Mrs. Mildred Jones of Ft. Morgan, Colo., and three brothers; Walter of the home, Ted, of Hutchinson; and Abe of Gilcrest, Colo.
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June 8, 1939 - LaCross Republican
Edna Brack
Edna, the youngest daughter of John P. and Justina Brack was born at Otis, Kansas, on April 25, 1917. Her childhood was spent in that community, but some fifteen years ago, she came with her parents to Rush Center, Kansas. Since that time, she has resided in this community. She began her grade school education in Rush Center school and after the necessary number of years was graduated with her class. That class entered the LaCrosse High School the following fall and Edna continued with them for two years. At that time she was compelled to stop her schooling and seek employment, so as to supplement the family income.
Edna had worked hard and struggled at some odds to make a go of her responsibilities. She had worked patiently at the job. She never asked for sympathy. She just asked for a chance. She had been happy making plans for the future. But those plans were interrupted by her tragic death in a car accident near LaCrosse last Saturday evening. She had lived only 22 years, 1 month, and 8 days.
Edna leaves to mourn her very untimely death: her son, Mack Mervin; her parents, John P. and Justina Brack; her sisters, Mrs. Adam Wagner of Rush Center,; Mrs. Bill Oetkins of Nekoma; Mrs. A. V. Glasener of Wellington, Kansas; and Mrs. POaul Jones of Fort Morgan, Colorado; Walter of Rush Center; and Theodore of Hutchinson, Kansas; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Rush Center Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Ray B. Bressler in charge. The music was furnished at the Rush Center mixed quartette composed of Mrs. L. D. Scandrett, Miss Edith Swob, Clyde Smith and LeRoy Dixon. Mrs. Virgil Barnes accompanied at the piano. Pittman and Pittman were the undertakers. The pall bearers were Johnny Oetkins, Chester Fulkerson, Elmer Brack, Harvey Wagner, Guy and Kenneth Barnes. Interment was in the Locust Hill Cemetery at Rush Center.
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