Albert Shafer, 60-year old prominent Baroda farmer, died Thursday morning, the 24th Berrien county 1929 automobile crash victim of an accident Wednesday afternoon on the slippery Baroda-Bridgeman road in the height of the terrific 3-day storm covering the whole of Berrien this week. Mr. Shafer died at St. Joseph sanitarium without regaining conciousness.
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of Cleveland avenue and the Baroda-Bridgeman thoroughfare.
Relatives today were planning funeral services for Mr. Shafer, owner of one of the most valuable farms in this section, 100 acres on the extreme southern border of Baroda township. The 20-acre farm of his son Warren is nearby.
Mr. Shafer with his son, Warren Shafer, at the wheel of their sedan, was driving north on Cleveland avenue.
The younger man applied his brakes as a car approached the crossing from the direction of Baroda. Skidding on the light fall of snow covering the pavement, the sedan crashed into a coupe driven by William H. Van der Bosch of South Bend. Both cars were wrecked.
Pitched through the windshield to the pavement, the elder Shafer was injured internally and badly cut about the head and face. Unconscious and bleeding from an 8-inch scalp wound above the left eye, he was carried into the home of John Soos who resides on what was formerly the Eunis property.
Warren Shafer, cut about the head was removed to his home. The South Bend man was uninjured. Summoned to the scene from Baroda, Constable John Mathieu declared the accident to be unavoidable.
The crash occurred but a short distance south of Houser's Corners, where the accident death toll by collision has been heavy.
Two men whose names were not learned carried the injured men into the Soos home where first aid was rendered by Dr. William Littlejohn of Bridgmun. The elder man was removed later to the St. Joseph sanitarium.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Shafer, Albert Shafer was born on a farm near Singer lake, now occupied by a cousin Fred Shafer.
The William Shafers were prominent among early residents in that section of Berrien county and their homestead was but a mile and a half from the 100-acre farm where their son later made his home for many years.
Surviving Mr. Shafer are his wife; one son, Warren; one daughter, Miss Irene Shafer, at home; a brother, William D. Shafer, of South Baroda township, and a sister, Mrs. A. R. Nelson, of Baroda. There are also a number of more distant relatives.
The widow was the former Miss Mary Sunday of Oronoko township, member of another widely known Berrien county family.
No arrangements for the funeral had been made at noon today by the family, stunned by the shock of the tragedy.
(News Palladium, October 24, 1929)
BARODA, Oct. 25 - Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Albert Shafer, lifelong resident of Baroda township. His tragic death Thursday morning was a result of an auto crash Wednesday.
Rev. J. O. Nelson, of Benton Harbor, an intimate friend of the family, conducts the rites.
The funeral is at 1 p.m. at the home in South Baroda township and at 2 p.m. at the Baroda Congregational church. Burial is in Hinman cemetery, Baroda.
Six cousins will carry the casket. They are William Binger, George Shafer, Melvin Shafer, William A. Feather, Jr., J. R. Shafer and Fred Shafer.
Among relatives who are coming from outisde the county for the funeral are three brother-in-laws, Leonard Forester and his family of Detroit; Fred Robbins and family of Battle Creek, and James Ray and family of Burlington.
(News-Palladium, October 25, 1929)
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of Cleveland avenue and the Baroda-Bridgeman thoroughfare.
Relatives today were planning funeral services for Mr. Shafer, owner of one of the most valuable farms in this section, 100 acres on the extreme southern border of Baroda township. The 20-acre farm of his son Warren is nearby.
Mr. Shafer with his son, Warren Shafer, at the wheel of their sedan, was driving north on Cleveland avenue.
The younger man applied his brakes as a car approached the crossing from the direction of Baroda. Skidding on the light fall of snow covering the pavement, the sedan crashed into a coupe driven by William H. Van der Bosch of South Bend. Both cars were wrecked.
Pitched through the windshield to the pavement, the elder Shafer was injured internally and badly cut about the head and face. Unconscious and bleeding from an 8-inch scalp wound above the left eye, he was carried into the home of John Soos who resides on what was formerly the Eunis property.
Warren Shafer, cut about the head was removed to his home. The South Bend man was uninjured. Summoned to the scene from Baroda, Constable John Mathieu declared the accident to be unavoidable.
The crash occurred but a short distance south of Houser's Corners, where the accident death toll by collision has been heavy.
Two men whose names were not learned carried the injured men into the Soos home where first aid was rendered by Dr. William Littlejohn of Bridgmun. The elder man was removed later to the St. Joseph sanitarium.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Shafer, Albert Shafer was born on a farm near Singer lake, now occupied by a cousin Fred Shafer.
The William Shafers were prominent among early residents in that section of Berrien county and their homestead was but a mile and a half from the 100-acre farm where their son later made his home for many years.
Surviving Mr. Shafer are his wife; one son, Warren; one daughter, Miss Irene Shafer, at home; a brother, William D. Shafer, of South Baroda township, and a sister, Mrs. A. R. Nelson, of Baroda. There are also a number of more distant relatives.
The widow was the former Miss Mary Sunday of Oronoko township, member of another widely known Berrien county family.
No arrangements for the funeral had been made at noon today by the family, stunned by the shock of the tragedy.
(News Palladium, October 24, 1929)
BARODA, Oct. 25 - Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Albert Shafer, lifelong resident of Baroda township. His tragic death Thursday morning was a result of an auto crash Wednesday.
Rev. J. O. Nelson, of Benton Harbor, an intimate friend of the family, conducts the rites.
The funeral is at 1 p.m. at the home in South Baroda township and at 2 p.m. at the Baroda Congregational church. Burial is in Hinman cemetery, Baroda.
Six cousins will carry the casket. They are William Binger, George Shafer, Melvin Shafer, William A. Feather, Jr., J. R. Shafer and Fred Shafer.
Among relatives who are coming from outisde the county for the funeral are three brother-in-laws, Leonard Forester and his family of Detroit; Fred Robbins and family of Battle Creek, and James Ray and family of Burlington.
(News-Palladium, October 25, 1929)
Albert Shafer, 60-year old prominent Baroda farmer, died Thursday morning, the 24th Berrien county 1929 automobile crash victim of an accident Wednesday afternoon on the slippery Baroda-Bridgeman road in the height of the terrific 3-day storm covering the whole of Berrien this week. Mr. Shafer died at St. Joseph sanitarium without regaining conciousness.
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of Cleveland avenue and the Baroda-Bridgeman thoroughfare.
Relatives today were planning funeral services for Mr. Shafer, owner of one of the most valuable farms in this section, 100 acres on the extreme southern border of Baroda township. The 20-acre farm of his son Warren is nearby.
Mr. Shafer with his son, Warren Shafer, at the wheel of their sedan, was driving north on Cleveland avenue.
The younger man applied his brakes as a car approached the crossing from the direction of Baroda. Skidding on the light fall of snow covering the pavement, the sedan crashed into a coupe driven by William H. Van der Bosch of South Bend. Both cars were wrecked.
Pitched through the windshield to the pavement, the elder Shafer was injured internally and badly cut about the head and face. Unconscious and bleeding from an 8-inch scalp wound above the left eye, he was carried into the home of John Soos who resides on what was formerly the Eunis property.
Warren Shafer, cut about the head was removed to his home. The South Bend man was uninjured. Summoned to the scene from Baroda, Constable John Mathieu declared the accident to be unavoidable.
The crash occurred but a short distance south of Houser's Corners, where the accident death toll by collision has been heavy.
Two men whose names were not learned carried the injured men into the Soos home where first aid was rendered by Dr. William Littlejohn of Bridgmun. The elder man was removed later to the St. Joseph sanitarium.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Shafer, Albert Shafer was born on a farm near Singer lake, now occupied by a cousin Fred Shafer.
The William Shafers were prominent among early residents in that section of Berrien county and their homestead was but a mile and a half from the 100-acre farm where their son later made his home for many years.
Surviving Mr. Shafer are his wife; one son, Warren; one daughter, Miss Irene Shafer, at home; a brother, William D. Shafer, of South Baroda township, and a sister, Mrs. A. R. Nelson, of Baroda. There are also a number of more distant relatives.
The widow was the former Miss Mary Sunday of Oronoko township, member of another widely known Berrien county family.
No arrangements for the funeral had been made at noon today by the family, stunned by the shock of the tragedy.
(News Palladium, October 24, 1929)
BARODA, Oct. 25 - Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Albert Shafer, lifelong resident of Baroda township. His tragic death Thursday morning was a result of an auto crash Wednesday.
Rev. J. O. Nelson, of Benton Harbor, an intimate friend of the family, conducts the rites.
The funeral is at 1 p.m. at the home in South Baroda township and at 2 p.m. at the Baroda Congregational church. Burial is in Hinman cemetery, Baroda.
Six cousins will carry the casket. They are William Binger, George Shafer, Melvin Shafer, William A. Feather, Jr., J. R. Shafer and Fred Shafer.
Among relatives who are coming from outisde the county for the funeral are three brother-in-laws, Leonard Forester and his family of Detroit; Fred Robbins and family of Battle Creek, and James Ray and family of Burlington.
(News-Palladium, October 25, 1929)
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of Cleveland avenue and the Baroda-Bridgeman thoroughfare.
Relatives today were planning funeral services for Mr. Shafer, owner of one of the most valuable farms in this section, 100 acres on the extreme southern border of Baroda township. The 20-acre farm of his son Warren is nearby.
Mr. Shafer with his son, Warren Shafer, at the wheel of their sedan, was driving north on Cleveland avenue.
The younger man applied his brakes as a car approached the crossing from the direction of Baroda. Skidding on the light fall of snow covering the pavement, the sedan crashed into a coupe driven by William H. Van der Bosch of South Bend. Both cars were wrecked.
Pitched through the windshield to the pavement, the elder Shafer was injured internally and badly cut about the head and face. Unconscious and bleeding from an 8-inch scalp wound above the left eye, he was carried into the home of John Soos who resides on what was formerly the Eunis property.
Warren Shafer, cut about the head was removed to his home. The South Bend man was uninjured. Summoned to the scene from Baroda, Constable John Mathieu declared the accident to be unavoidable.
The crash occurred but a short distance south of Houser's Corners, where the accident death toll by collision has been heavy.
Two men whose names were not learned carried the injured men into the Soos home where first aid was rendered by Dr. William Littlejohn of Bridgmun. The elder man was removed later to the St. Joseph sanitarium.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Shafer, Albert Shafer was born on a farm near Singer lake, now occupied by a cousin Fred Shafer.
The William Shafers were prominent among early residents in that section of Berrien county and their homestead was but a mile and a half from the 100-acre farm where their son later made his home for many years.
Surviving Mr. Shafer are his wife; one son, Warren; one daughter, Miss Irene Shafer, at home; a brother, William D. Shafer, of South Baroda township, and a sister, Mrs. A. R. Nelson, of Baroda. There are also a number of more distant relatives.
The widow was the former Miss Mary Sunday of Oronoko township, member of another widely known Berrien county family.
No arrangements for the funeral had been made at noon today by the family, stunned by the shock of the tragedy.
(News Palladium, October 24, 1929)
BARODA, Oct. 25 - Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Albert Shafer, lifelong resident of Baroda township. His tragic death Thursday morning was a result of an auto crash Wednesday.
Rev. J. O. Nelson, of Benton Harbor, an intimate friend of the family, conducts the rites.
The funeral is at 1 p.m. at the home in South Baroda township and at 2 p.m. at the Baroda Congregational church. Burial is in Hinman cemetery, Baroda.
Six cousins will carry the casket. They are William Binger, George Shafer, Melvin Shafer, William A. Feather, Jr., J. R. Shafer and Fred Shafer.
Among relatives who are coming from outisde the county for the funeral are three brother-in-laws, Leonard Forester and his family of Detroit; Fred Robbins and family of Battle Creek, and James Ray and family of Burlington.
(News-Palladium, October 25, 1929)
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