KEASBEY — Funeral services for John Romer, 35, of Crow's Mill Road, Keasbey, who jumped to Instant death from the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Bridge into the channel of the Raritan River, 135 feet below, on Labor Day, will be held tomorrow morning at ten o'clock from Our Lady of Peace Church, Fords. Rev. J. Ketter will officiate.
The late Mr. Romer, whose body was recovered yesterday morning, is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Romer, of Crow's Mill Road, Keaabey; a sister, Mrs. Frances Scheid, of New York; and six brothers, James and Joseph, of Fords; Charles, of Keasbey; William, Jr., of Perth Amboy and Michael and Melvin, of Philadelphia.
The body was found shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning floating, face down, between two barges, at the Raritan Copper Works docks, IPerth Amboy by John Detrick, one of the derrick operators at work at the dock. The dock is approximately one and onehalf miles from the bridge.
Police are of the opinion that Romer did not commit suicide. He had been heard boasting around Keasbey that he could make the dive off the bridge, they said. Eye witnesses say that before he jumped he stood near the rail on the west side of the new span, which has not yet been opened to traffic, and looked into the water as if measuring the distance. He suddenly jumped, there was a big splash as he hit water, and the body failed to come to the surface.
Local and Perth Amboy police, together with boatmen in the vicinty, dragged the channel without any result.
Romer's death is the fourth at the bridge, three workmen having fallen to their deaths during the course of its construction.
Obituary can be found in Fords Beacon, September 6, 1940, page 1
KEASBEY — Funeral services for John Romer, 35, of Crow's Mill Road, Keasbey, who jumped to Instant death from the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Bridge into the channel of the Raritan River, 135 feet below, on Labor Day, will be held tomorrow morning at ten o'clock from Our Lady of Peace Church, Fords. Rev. J. Ketter will officiate.
The late Mr. Romer, whose body was recovered yesterday morning, is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Romer, of Crow's Mill Road, Keaabey; a sister, Mrs. Frances Scheid, of New York; and six brothers, James and Joseph, of Fords; Charles, of Keasbey; William, Jr., of Perth Amboy and Michael and Melvin, of Philadelphia.
The body was found shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning floating, face down, between two barges, at the Raritan Copper Works docks, IPerth Amboy by John Detrick, one of the derrick operators at work at the dock. The dock is approximately one and onehalf miles from the bridge.
Police are of the opinion that Romer did not commit suicide. He had been heard boasting around Keasbey that he could make the dive off the bridge, they said. Eye witnesses say that before he jumped he stood near the rail on the west side of the new span, which has not yet been opened to traffic, and looked into the water as if measuring the distance. He suddenly jumped, there was a big splash as he hit water, and the body failed to come to the surface.
Local and Perth Amboy police, together with boatmen in the vicinty, dragged the channel without any result.
Romer's death is the fourth at the bridge, three workmen having fallen to their deaths during the course of its construction.
Obituary can be found in Fords Beacon, September 6, 1940, page 1
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