Obituaries:
Hazel Burda Parkins (Summers)
Tingley Vindicator, November
29, 1917
Tingley Young Man Instantly Killed
Cecil Summers, 18 years of age falls to his death from #14 near
Creston Monday
A fatal accident befell Cecil Summers, youngest son of Mrs.
Louvisa
Summers Monday evening about 7 o'clock, when he fell from Number
14 going
into Creston.
The particulars are not known as the coroner's jury developed
the fact
that no one saw him fall. The scene of the fatality is near the
bridge about
2 1/2 miles from the city. The supposition is that Cecil Summers,
who had
been working on a farm boarded the train at the water tank some
three miles
west as he was not in the car but on the rear platform, his bundle
of clothes
being discovered there. The brakeman as he opened the door, thought
he heard
someone fall, so he said.
The body was found by the first train west after the accident,
taken to
Corning and then returned to Creston where the undertaker Emerson
took
charge. Cecil's injuries were a broken neck, leg and arm, so that
death must
have been instantaneous. The remains were identified by a deposit
slip on an
Afton bank and letters from Tingley relatives and later by his
brother Jeff
and Clark Oxenrider who were called to the city. Undertaker Edwards
went
Tues afternoon to Creston after the body. The young man was born
and reared
near Tingley and well known to most of our people. The bereaved
relatives
have the sympathy of all in their great sorrow. Funeral arrangements
were
not completed at the time of posting this page.
Tingley Vindicator, December 6, 1917
Obituary Cecil Summers
Francis Cecil Summers was born in Tingley Township June 18, 1898.
His
death occurred Monday evening November 26 near Creston, where
he fell from a
moving train as he was on his way home to spend Thanksgiving with
his mother,
Mrs. Louvisa Summers.
He was 19 years, 5 months, 8 days old. September 6, 1915, he confessed
his faith in Christ and was baptized by Elder Sam C. Kincheloe,
who at that
time was pastor of the Tingley Christian Church.
Cecil was of cheerful disposition and made friends of young and
old
alike. Besides the bereaved mother, he leaves four sisters, Miss
Blanch
Summers, and Mrs. Mae Reece of Des Moines. Misses Ellen and Louvisa
of
Tingley and three brothers, Claude and Earl of Sac City, Iowa
and Jeff J. of
Tingley to mourn their loss and all of whom were permitted to
be present at
the funeral services which were held from the home Thursday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. J.A. Banson. Interment at the Tingley Cemetery.
Card of Thanks:
We wish to express our thanks for the kindness shown by the friends
in
the bereavement of our darling boy and brother. Mrs L.A. Summers
and family.
Card of Thanks:
My sincere and heartfelt thanks are expressed to the neighbors
who were so kind and helpful at the time of the death of Mrs Blanche
Bowers and for the many acts of sympathy bestowed. Each was truly
appreciated.--Dolores Bischoff.
Mrs Blanche Bowers died Saturday in her home. Services are being held today (Monday) from the Christian Church in Tingley.
Services for A C Summers 86 a former Humboldt Resident will be held Monday at 2 pm. in the Lindhart Funeral Home with burial in Union Cem.
Mr Summers died at a hospital in Paso Robles, California hospital in Paso Robles, California.He had been making his home with a son, Alvah, in Paso Robles for some time. Surviving are two sons including Alvah, and Gerald, Templeton California, four daughters Mrs Frances Elphic, Paso Robles, Mrs Everett Schipull Lu Verne, Mrs Carroll Knowles Rutland, Mrs Lola Sorenson and Mrs Helen Stoddard, both of Humboldt, 39 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren, Born in Springfield Illinois, Mr Summers was reared and educated there. He married Helen Ruschke in 1915 at Lytton and they lived in the Lytton and Sac City areas until coming to Humboldt 48 years ago. Mr Summers died in 1966.