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Wumboldt County went through the Fourth of July week on without a fatality or injury in traffic, and then just 15 minutes after the official counting period closed, a driver was injured when his car ran off the road on a county gravel road a mile south and three miles east of Dakota City near the Harold Roote farm. The car, @ 1958 Ford, driven by Arnce W. Koot Jr, 20, of Humboldt was traveling west when it ran off the road on the south side, Nit the Roote farm's drive, veered back across the road, wand Hit in the north direct. Root suffered head lacerations and bruises when his head hit the windshert. He was taken to Dr. FH. Coddington in Hum boldt for treatment. The front end of the car was demolished to the accident, Hun boldt County Sheriff Marvin And ersen investigated. Obituary—Learmont Faye Learmont, daughter of James aund Eltle Learmont, was born at Ayrshire, Iews, Novem ber §, 1902. She passed away at the Kansas University Medi cal Center, Kansas City, Kan sas, June 24, 1967, of cardiac failure and complications at the age of $4 years. She attended and graduated from the Silver Lake Consolida ted School at Ayrshire, Ste then attended Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa and Morning- Ste College at Sioux City, Iowa. In 1931, she moved with her parents, to Humboldt, where she was employed for many years at the Riverside Floral Couty. Later she worked at Becker Flor ists in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She went to Paola, Kansas, in 1956 and then to Osawatomie, Kan sas, where she was employed at Tilford's Greenhouse at the time of her death. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge and the Metho dist church. She was proceeded in death by her parents and two brothers. She leaves her sister Alma, brother Forest, both of Hum boldt, and three nieces, Mrs. David Johnson of Rantoul, Mit hhels, and Mrs. Robert Lindhart and Miss Lana Learmont of Humboldt. Funeral services were held at 2 pm. June 24, 1967, in the Humboldt Methodist Church with Dr. W. Morris Kildal, pastor, officiating, Interment was in the Silver Lake Cemetery at Ayrshire, Ia., with the Lindtart Funeral Home of Humboldt in charge of ar rangements. Casket bearers were Bruce Rouse, Forrest Rouse, Loren Winter, Westley Schenatzki, Welcome Jones, and Melven Hib.
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Humboldt Independent
Humboldt, Iowa, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1967
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