| Dickie Kugler, 8, Drowns In Pond Friday
Youth Meets Death While Playing On Way To Home
Richard Lee Kugler, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Kugler of Shale City, drowned Friday afternoon in the Shale City pond
while playing near there on his way home from school. He apparently
lingered there after the other boys left and met with his death.
The youth had left school at 3 p.m., and his body was found in
five feet of water at about 6 p. m. by Willard Cook, one of several men
who had gone to search for him when he was reported missing at supper time.
A coroner's jury composed of Willard Cook, James Saylor, Mrs.
Winifred Cook, Lewis Maher, Mrs. Edna Vipond and Irene Moffitt was
impaneled by Dr. V. A. McClanahan, and after hearing Mrs. Martha Swank,
Mrs. Vipond and Mr. Cook, returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
The youth was born Feb. 8, 1939. He is survived by his parents
and two brothers, Samuel and Lyle, and two sisters, Lila and Mary
Catherine. Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Taylor are his maternal grandparents.
Funeral services were held at 3 p. m. Sunday from the Davis
chapel in Aledo with Rev. Frank J. Medford officiating, and burial was
in Viola cemetery.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, May 14, 1947)
Note: died May 9, 1947.
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