Hancock County Journal
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
March 17, 1955Merlin Lovell
Killed TuesdayMerlin Lovell, 52, of near
Carthage became the county's
fifth traffic fatality about 3
a. m. Tuesday when the car in
which he was riding hit a bridge
abutment.The car, a 1946 Ford driven by Lovell's nephew, Charles Hoover, 27, of Carthage, turned over as it hit the abutment on a gravel road 2 miles east of the Ferris corner. Lovell, who possibly was killed instantly, was taken to Memorial hospital, Carthage, where he was dead on arrival.
Hoover is a patient in the hospital with back injuries. Following the accident he walked to the farm house of Willis Fry to summon aid. Fry went to the scene of the accident and took Lovell's body and Hoover to Memorial hospital.
INQUEST HELD
Coroner William Seaver held an inquest at 7 p. m. Tuesday in the Fecht funeral home. The jury decided Lovell's death was attributed to severe head injuries received March 15 at about 3 a. m. in Pilot Grove township in an auto accident. Members of the coroner's jury were: Robert Wear, foreman; Jack Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jurgens, Jake Fecht and A. G. Ulrich. Those testifying at the inquest were Sheriff Ivan Latherow, Lloyd Lovell, Willis Fry, Jack Coeur and Lawrence Swain.
FUNERAL TODAY
Funeral services for Lovell will be held today at 2:30 in the Fecht funeral home with Rev. A. Harold Dagley officiating. Interment will be in McKay cemetery northeast of Carthage.
The son of William C. and Maude Goldsberry Lovell, he was born Sept. 27, 1902, near Webster. He lived in the Lawrence Swain tenant house.
Surviving are two brothers, Lloyd and Alan Lovell, both of Ferris; three sisters, Mrs. Dexter Murphy and Mrs. Jess Hoover of Ferris and Mrs. Everett Climer of Carthage, nieces and nephews.
