Mrs. Louis Diege! Dies
When Hit by Auto
Friends and relatives of Mrs.
Sirah Diegei, 66, living on To¬
ledo road(route 102) near here,
were painfully shocked when the
ne ws spread, shortly after nopn
Tuesday, tint she had been struck
by an auto in front of her home
and probaoiy fatally injured.
Then in the evening came word
that she had succumbed to her
injuries, passing away at about
8:15 in Toledo Hospital, where
she had been taken after the ac¬
cident. Funeral services are to
be held Friday afternoon at 2:30
in the family residence, with Rev.
Wm. von Brauchitsch of St. John's
:hurch officiating and Sabroske
and Myers, funeral directors, in
charge. Interment will be in
Clay cemetery, north of here.
Mrs. Deigel, wife of Louis
Diegei, was crossing the high¬
way* returning home from a call
in the home of her sister-in-law,
|Mrs. Mary Heckman(almost op¬
posite the Diegei residence) when
she was struck by an auto driven
y H. C. Miller of Chihuahua,
Mexico, enroute to Elmore to vis¬
it his brother, John Miller, and
family east of town. The Sa-
broske-Myers ambulance was
summoned, also Dr. G. P. Willett,
and the injured woman was taken
to the hospital where it was found
she had suffered a fractured skull
and fractures of legs and arms.
Mr. Miller, accompanied
by his wife and family, was not
held, after Marshal John Peter¬
sen of this place investigated the
the accident
Born near Genoa, Mrs. Diegei
had lived all her life in the vicin¬
ity of Elmore. She is survived
by her husband and ^a daughter,
Mrs. Kenneth Doty of Belleville,
111.; also sisters, Mrs. Wm. Lutz
and Mrs. Samuel Wyatt of Tole¬
do.