Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Blankenbaker, Wallace November 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Luce pegsue59@cox.net January 12, 2007, 8:13 am The El Dorado Times, Friday, November 17, 1933 The El Dorado Times Friday, November 17, 1933 LATHAM MAN DIES FROM CAR HURTS WALLACE BLANKENBAKER IS FATALLY INJURED IN CRASH NEAR OLMITZ, KANSAS Wallace Blankenbaker, aged 34 years of Latham, received injuries that resulted in his death and Ernest Heacock, aged 22 years, of Owatonna, Minn., sustained lacerations on his face and skin abrasions on his body in an automobile accident near Olmitz, in the central part of the state, Wednesday evening, according to information reaching El Dorado today. Blankenbaker died shortly after being taken to the Adams Hospital in Olmitz. The condition of Heacock, who is in the same hospital is reported to be serious. Both men had been employed in laying a pipe line from the gas fields near Otis and Bushton, but it is said they had been laid off recently. The accident occurredwhen the two men are said to have been going to a dance at Olmitz. The cause of the crash is not known, Heacock was the owner of the car, a roadster, and he was driving. The car was found upside down in a field. Blankenbaker was fairly well known in the Latham Community it was said here today. No funeral arrangements were available today, but it is probable the body of Blankenbaker will be brought to Latham for interment. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb