Warren County Iowa Genealogical Society

 

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    Loren GASS

    June 12, 1926 – Frank GASS drowned as he and brothers Floyd and Loren drove their Ford Coup into the flood waters of Wind Branch Creek east of Lacona near the Marion County line. The car was swept off the center of the mud road and plunged head first into a washed out hole 15 feet deep. The body was found Friday morning June 18 near the Chicago Bridge.   (Source - Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)