FORMER RESIDENT IN FATAL MISHAP

Joel Carlson Dies following Auto Accident Sunday

Joel Carlson died at an Omaha hospital early Monday following injuries suffered a few hours before when the auto in which he was riding left a curve near Glenwood, Iowa, struck a tree and turned over. Carlson and another man from Silver City, Iowa, were enroute to their home at Silver City at the time of the accident.

Carlson was twenty six years of age and spent the greater part of his life in this city where he was graduated from the public schools. He held a wide acquaintance in this city and had many friends who thought very highly of him. While attending the schools, he starred in athletics and for a number of years he was also a stellar performer on the town grid team. For some time he had been employed with his brother, George, in a garage at Silver City.

Surviving him are his bereaved mother, Mrs. E. M. Carlson of Omaha; five sisters, Mrs. Nels Paulsen and Mrs. Menno Good of Blair; Mrs. Morris Jensen of Greeley, Colorado, Mrs. Harold Ryan of Herman and Miss Dora Carlson of Omaha; two brothers, Verner of Omaha and George of Silver City, Iowa. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at 2;00 o’clock yesterday afternoon with the Revs. W. H. Underwood and Carl G. Bader officiating, after which interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Historical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~

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