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Ludington Daily News
Saturday, 26 November 1949

         HOWARD SCHWASS, GENE BEADLE ARE CRASH VICTIMS
         
         HOWARD V. SCHWASS, 39, of Riverton township and
       GENE BEADLE, 20, of Custer were killed this morning
       as the result of an accident at 8 a.m. when the car
       which SCHWASS was driving collied with an eastbound
       Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. train in the village
       of Custer, Mason county sheriff's department reported.
         MR. SCHWASS was driving north on the county road
       through Custer and could not slow down enough on the
       icy hill to avoid the train. SCHWASS was thrown 50
       feet into a ditch and died immediately.
         MR. BEADLE died about 11 a.m. at Paulina Stearns
       hospital of multiple fractures, internal injuries
       and severe shock.
         The two men, who were brothers-in-law, were on 
       their way deer hunting with MR. BEADLE'S father,
       DAVID BEADLE, 65, who received a shoulder injury,
       and ALGIRD ISGAN, 25, of Ludington, who was not in-
       jured in the accident.
         The county road through Custer has not been sanded
       during the icy weather, Custer residents said this
       morning.
         MR. SCHWASS' father, ERNEST SCHWASS, was killed
       Aug. 10, 1949, in an auto accident in Riverton near
       his home.
         MR. SCHWASS was born Oct. 30, 1910, in Riverton,
       where he had lived all of his life. He was married
       in 1933 to LEONA BEADLE of Custer in Caro. A farmer,
       he was a member of Center Riverton Evangelical United
       Brethren church.
         Surviving are his widow; four children, THEODORE 15,
       RICHARD 13, NANCY LEE 10, and MITCHELL eight; his
       mother, MRS. JENNIE SCHWASS, and a brother, PHILLIP.
         The body will be taken to his residence in River-
       ton on Sunday. Funeral arrangements will be announced
       later by Butler-Morrison funeral home in Ludington.
         MR. BEADLE, who was born Sept. 23, 1929; in Sherman
       township, was a graduate of Custer school. He served
       in the Army for some time.
         He leaves his widow, the former MISS HELEN JEAN
       MORSE; a son, ROBERT LEE, seven months old; his par-
       ents, Mr. and Mrs. DAVID BEADLE; three brothers, 
       HAROLD of Lansing, FRANK of Custer and DEWARD of
       Branch; and five sisters, MRS. LEOLA JOHNSON of New
       York, MRS. HOWARD SCHWASS of Riverton, MRS. ALGIRD
       ISGAN of Ludington, MRS. WARREN HOLDEN of Ludington
       and MISS MAISIE BEADLE at home.
         Funeral arrangments are being made by Stephens
       funeral home in Scottville.
       
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