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Tragedies of the Lake
Any misspelling is correct till I go through and edit them. 1882 - [Very long article reporting deaths of two local people at Lake Maxinkuckee] . . . The party consisted of Will PLANK, Will MERCER, James RANNELLS, Lyman BEARSS, Florence DELBERT, Lola TRUE, Birdie HICKMAN and Edith COPELAND, all of this city except Miss Delbert, whose residence is at Peru. . . . Rannells and Bearss only lacked a few months of being of age. Plank is about 18 years of age and Mercer about 20 years old. The ladies are all in their teens. [While taking a boat ride, the boat sank] . . . and two of them - Bearss and Rannells - sank to rise no more alive. . . . As soon as possible thereafter, they were conveyed to this place by V. ZIMMERMAN and preparations made for their burial, which took place on Thursday. Lyman BEARSS was taken by his friends to Peru for interment and James RANNELLS was buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery. The funeral of Rannells took place from the residence of Mr. John RANNELLS and the M.E. church where Rev. R. D. UTTER preached a very appropriate and touching sermon. . . . Of the deceased and surviving members of the party, but little need by said. Lyman Bearss was a son of Hon. George E. BEARSS, who resides three miles west of this place on a farm. He was a young man of more than average intellectual ahility, of fine appearance and bore a good name for morality and good behavior. He was the oldest of the family and was his father’s pride and his mother’s darling. James Rannells was a son of David M. RANNELLS who is well known in this city and throughout the county. “Jimmy” as he was commonly called, was a very quiet and retired young man. He enjoyed company, but never exhibited the overflow of good cheer common among his associates. For several years he has been engaged in EMRICK’s Cigar Store as a roller of the weed into cigars. He was of steady habits and seldom could be enticed into some of the enjoyments indulged in by his companions, yet he was a favorite among all th boys and girls of his class. Of the boys rescued, but little need be said. Will Plank and Will Mercer are sons of Dr. A. K. PLANK and Levi MERCER, respectively. They are both lively and interesting young men, given to no special bad practices except those common to boys of their age, who have not been properly restrained. . . . . . Rochester Sentinel - Saturday, September 2, 1882  1898 - October 7 Culver Herald: Cadets Burner, 19, and Morehead, 18, were drowned while boating on Lake Maxinkuckee Wednesday afternoon. Without obtaining permission fron the Academy they secured a boat and went sailing along the east shore beyond the Indiana boat house when a sudden aquall [squall] capsized the boat tossin gthe boys into the water. Burner was caught under the sail, Morehead held onto the aft end of the boat. Burner freed himself, bout could not swin. Morehead lost his hold attempting to help Burner and both sank to the bottom. The accident occurred about 3 p.m. The bodies were recovered. And for the first time in its history the flag at the Academy was flown at falf mast. Culver Citizen - 1902 - - "Mrs. Dr. SELFRIDGE of Jasonville, Ind., a guest at the Arlington, went out upon the lake [Lake Maxinkuckee] accompanied by her three year old son. The little lad stood up in the boat and fell headlong into the water. The frightened mother sprang overboard to the rescue of her little son and grabbing the rope trailing from the boat was rescued by other guests at the Arlington. The mother's nerves had been at such tension from fright that after being brought ashore she was prostrated for several hours." Culver Citizen - 1903 August 13 –-- Seven drunks while out boat riding last Sunday upset their boat about a half mile out from the boat house. They were rescued. A peculiar feature of the affair is they were as drunk after the experience as before… 3 Sept 1903 - Culver Citizen Drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee The community was startled last Thursday morning by the shocking news that Mrs. Mary Castleman, wife of J. H. Castleman had drowned the night before...Becoming greatly alarmed a thorough search was instituted resulting in the discovery of her apparently lifeless body under the pier near Kreuzberger's Park about 10 p.m..... Monday, March 28, 1904 Rochester Sentinel By taking a shot gun by the muzzle and attempting to pull it over a seat in a boat at Lake Maxinkuckee Saturday afternoon, Clyde COMBS accidentally discharged the gun and the load tore a large hole in his abdomen, from the effects of which he died four hours later. Combs and a boy were out on the lake and when struck by the discharge he was knocked out of the boat backwards. The boy was successful in getting him in and rowing to shore, a buggy came along shortly afterwards and Combs walked to it and climbed in unassisted and was taken to a doctor’s office in Culver. The wound was there dressed and he was removed to his home where he died about seven o’clock. He was conscious the greater part of the four hours he lived after the accident and told his family and father of the accident. Clyde Combs is the son of James COMBS, the grist mill man at Leiters, and lived at Culver where he operated a mill for his father. He was twenty years of age and leaves a wife and three month old baby. The funeral was held at Leiters this afternoon at two o’clock 1906 - July - The issue of 12 July 1906 records the near drowning of - Gordan Leaf, age 6 who fell from the Peerless in front of the Lake View Hotel in about 30 to 40 feet of water. George Schal'er hearing the boys cries went to the rescue and on the second attempt found the unconscious boy who had been in the water for six to seven minutes. Gen. Gignillant and others worked for hours to resuscitate the boy and succeeded. Culver Citizen, Thursday, December 31, 1908 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana Death By Drowning Freddie Asper Goes Down to a Watery Grave While Skating on the Lake. The whole village is in a spirit of mourning this week over the drowning of Freddie Asper, the 12 year old son of Mr and Mrs Aaron Asper, who went through the ice on Monday morning while skating. The accident occurred about 9:45. There was a considerable crowd of la dson the lake opposite the assembly grounds where the ice for perhaps a quarter of a mile from shore was safe. Freddie and Russell Goldner skatedo ut to the edge of the thick ice where Russell stopped but Freddie, moreve nturesome, glided over upon the ice which had formed during the night. He had gone but a short distance when he broke through and there began a struggle for life which was witnessed by a number of persons from the shore. Freddie's own cries for help united with those of his young companion who skated for the shore, set in motion the utmost efforts in his behalf. Clark Ferrier, with a rope and a boat procured from the icehouse, started at once across the ice, and when the boat broke through the ice he leaped in and made a rapid progress as possible. Freddie went down at least four times. For a moment, on rising, he was able tosupport hi mself by catching hold of the ice, but it was too thin to support his weight. When Ferrier finally reached him he was only about a foot below the surface, but undoubtedly dead. He was taken into the boat where Ferrier did what he could in the hope of reviving him. Meantime Elzy Sanders and Ed Hawk had procured another boat, but they were too late to be of assistance farther than to transfer the body to their own boat where they continued the effort at resuscitation. The body was taken to the home of George Davis where Drs. Parker and Rea were summoned, but their labors were likewise fruitless. Meantime the news spread all over town, the ambulance was called for, and Mrs George Garn and Mrs Ulysses Burkett under took the sad mission of informing the parents of their bereavement. Dr J.H. Kiser, county coroner, reached here during the afternoon, and held an inquest with W.S. Easterday officiating as clerk. Clark Ferrier, Elzy Saunders and Russell Goldner were subpoenaed as witnesses, giving their testimony substantially as narrated here. This is said to be the first case of accidental drowning by breaking through the ice in the history of the town a remarkable circumstance. The funeral was held at the Evangelical church at 10 o'clock conducted by Rev. Mr. Walmer, assisted by Harley Davis. The pupils from Miss Butler's room attended in a body. The pallbearers were Orville Zechiel, Russel Stahl, Irvin Hessel, Floyd Davis, Lester Houghton and Carl Jones. The following out of town relatives were present: Mrs Sam Ulery and two daughters, Mrs Carrie Hawk and family, Grandma Burkett and Bert Zink, all of Mishawaka: Sol Wolfram and wife of Monterey. July 1909 - James Leroy Justice hurt in swimming accident - paralyzed for life. Rocherster Sentinel - Wednesday, May 13, 1925 ---- Tom DOORAH, negro, age 28, drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee Tuesday morning in 50 feet of water. He was a waiter at the Jungle Hotel, situated on the west side of the lake and after breakfast, he and a companion had gone canoeing. When 200 yards from shore the canoe capsized . Their cries for help were heard by William COOPER, an employee of the hotel, who put out in a boat and saved the other man from drowning. Doorah went down almost immediately, being either overtaken by cramps caused by the extremely cold water or else because he was unable to swim. People from Culver and the academy immediately started dragging the bottom of the lake for the body but so far have been unable to locate it. In all probability, the body will lie on the bottom of the lake until gas forms in sufficient quantity to float it. Under present weather conditions this should be from 14 to 21 days. Doorah was a South Carolina negro and came to Culver last fall from South Bend, where he had been employed by a Dr. CURTIS. He has been working at the hotel since Easter, and prior to that time was a waiter at Culver Military Academy. Doorah has relatives in Niles, Michigan. Rochester Sentinel - Wednesday, May 27, 1925 --- The body of Tom DOORAH, former colored waiter of the Jungle Hotel at Lake Maxinkuckee, who was drowned in the lake nearly two weeks ago when a canoe capsized, search for which was diligently pursued in vain, was washed ashore Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., being left on the shore near the point where the fatal mishap occurred. An employee of Culver academy made the gruesome discovery. Turned over to the coroner, the body was sent to to South Bend for preparation for burial. It will be sent from there to Benton Harbor Mich., where the deceased negro has a number of relatives. 1927 - August 17 – Midshipman rescued from lake. Saturday, August 27, 1927 - Rochester Sentinel ---Brooding over ill health from which she had suffered for the past 18 months is believed to have been the cause of Mrs. Otto ALEXANDER, aged 48, of Culver committing suicide by drowning in Lake Maxinkuckee, during the early hours of Friday morning. The body clad only in a night gown was recovered shortly after six a.m. Friday by her son, who with other members of the family had instigated a search for the missing woman. The woman's husband, who is employed at Culver in the Ewald meat market, had remained at her bedside until 3:30 Friday morning when he fell asleep and some time between that period and six o'clock, Mrs. Alexander, who had been considered as being unable to leave her bed, had walked from her home to the West shore of the lake and ended her life by drowning. Mrs. Alexander had been a sufferer of a nervous disorder and but two days prior to her rash act had consulted an insurance agency concerning a policy on her life, which of course was not taken out on account of her physical condition. Besides the husband, seven children survive. Funeral arrangements have not as yet been announced pending the decision of Coroner R. E. JOHNSON'S inquest, which is being conducted today. Wednesday, November 9, 1927 Rochester Sentinel ---- George BUFFINGTON, of Culver, aged 30, was drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when the boat in which he and Harry MEDBOURN were shooting ducks turned over and threw him into the lake. Buffington was standing up in the boat for a shot when the boat which was about 200 feet from the shore at the southwest end of the lake turned over. Buyffington [Buffington] evidently tried to swim to shore and it is thought he was seized by cramps in the cold water and consequently was drowned. Medbourne [Medbourn] saved himself by clinging to the boat, until aid arrived. Help from shore soon reached the scene and the body of the infortunate [unfortunate] young man was found on the bottom of the lake 25 minutes later. First aid methods employed by the swimming instructors at the Culver Military Academy failed. The Marshll [Marshall] county coroner was then called. County recorder Lou HUNT was a member of the rescuing party. Mr. Buffington, who formerly lived at Peru, was the proprietor of a pool room and dance hall at Culver. He is survived by his wife who formerly was Miss Iva INKS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles INKS of Plymouth, and one small son and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held Friday. 14 June 1933 - Raymond T. Burton, age 25, was the first drowning victim this year in Lake Maxinkuckee. His body was recovered with some efforts last Wed., after he and a companion went for a swim off the Lake View Hotel pier on the north shore of the lake. Burton was a member of the orchestra of musician Jack Crawford, "the Clown Prince of Jazz" from Los Angles. Saturday, July 15, 1933 Rochester Sentinel --- A high wid [wind] that struck Lake Maxinkuckee at 6:45 p.m. Frday [Friday], claimed the life of Mrs. Lucia C. MILLER, aged 52, wife of Arthur E. MILLER, local insurance agent and realtor. Mr. and Mrs. Miller reside at 128 West Thirteenth Street. The storm which claimed Mrs. Miller’s life endangered the lives of other members of her family and a large number of fishermen who were on the lake at the time. Mr. and Mrs Miler [Miller] had driven to the lake to spend the evening with their sons, Arthur [MILLER], aged 13, and Robert [MILLER], aged 12, and Lawrence BROWN, aged 11, son of Attorney and Mrs Selden J. BROWN. The three lads had been staying in a shack on the south side of Lake Maxinkuckee for the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Miller and the three boys were in a rowboat propelled by an outboard motor when the storm broke Mr. Miller saw the storm approaching and had started for the shore when a large wave struck the boat Had the occupants of the boat had two minutes longer they would have been able to reach the shore in safety. The boat at the time the wave struck it was about a quarter of a mile from shore. The water at this point is only eight feet deep. The wave which struck the boat partially filled it with water Only the brow of the boat stayed above the water. When the occupants of the boat were thrown into the water, Robert Miller grabbed his father and held his head above the water. Mrs. Miller foundered in the water and sank before her son, Arthur, was able to reach her However, he dove into the water and brought his mother to the surface, holding her head above the water until a boat from Culver Military Academy reached the Miller boat. The members of the Miller family and the Brown boy were taken to the Culver Military Academy Hospital. Expert life savers stationed at the academy worked over the body of Mrs. Miller with the aid oif [of] a pulmotor for over four hours. Death, according to Coroner Harry DANIELSON of Plymouth, was due to a heart attack. No water was found in her lungs. Coroner Danielson stated that Mrs. Miller probably suffered the heart attack as soon as she was thrown into the water. This theory is given credence as the others who were thrown into the water state that Mrs Miller never said a word after the boat was swamped. Mrs Miller’s face and body were bady [badly] bruised due to the pounding which she experienced by the high waves and from coming in contact with the side of the boat. The two Miller youths are badly bruised as is the Brown boy. Mr. Miller is suffering greatly from exhaustion and shock. His right side was badly bruised due to his being battered against the side of the boat by the waves. He was first given treatment at the hospital at Culver and late last night was removed to his home in this city where he was placed under the care of a physician. In an interview early Saturday with a representative of the Culver Citizen, regarding the tragedy which claimed the life of Mrs. Artie Miller Friday eveing [evening] on Lake Maxinkuckee, he stated that the storm which lashed the lake, was unquestionably the worst in the history of that resort. The storm came up at 6:45 and lasted for half an hour. A group of some 25 to 30 fishng [fishing] boats each loaded with from two to five persons were located in the south center of the lake when the terrific windstorm broke in less than a minute’s warning. Several oarsmen attempted to head into the storm for the Walker landing located on the southwest shore of the lake, but the impetus of the wind and the high running waves made such efforts futile. In changing their course to run with the waves toward the east shore approximately ten boats were caught sidewise in the troughs of the waves and the occupants were upset in the churning waves which were running six to eight feet high. Culver military officers sensing the dangerous situation ordered six of their large launches to the scene and the foundering fishermen were taken aboard while their up-turned boats were washed ashore on the southwestern edge of the lake. Several Rochester fishermen who were on the lake at the time succeeded in riding their boats safely through to the east shore of the lake. Some others from Rocheser [Rochester] who were caught im [in] the storm are Charles BAILEY, Louis NINIOS, Percy SMITH, Lisle KRIEGHBAUM, Rev. T. L. STOVALL and Nola RICHARDSON and Harold WILLIAMS both of Indianapolis who are visiting here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George BUTLER. Mrs. Miller was born on a farm in Richland township on October 8, 1880. Her parents were Isaac and Rebecca (DILLON) BABCOCK. Mrs. Miller had resided in this county all her lifetime. She was a very prominent member of the Baptist Church and the Eastern Star and Rebekah lodges. She was also the president of the Lincoln School Parent-Teachers Association Survivors are the husband, two sons, Arthur [MILLER] and Robert [MILLER], daughter, Mrs [C] Fred [Miriam R MILLER] MITCHELL, all of this city; two brothers, Ray BABCOCK, Fulton, and Perry BABCOCK, Mesick, Michigan. A brother, Andrew BABCOCK, and a sister, Mrs. Ora CLARK, preceded her in death. The funeral services will be held from the Baptist Church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Rev. James NIVEN of Bedford, will be in charge, assisted by Rev. J.B. GLEASON. Burial will be made in the Odd Fellows cemetery. 19 Jul. 1933 The largest waves seen on Lake Maxinkuckee (according to the oldest lakesman) claimed the life og Luessl C. Miller, 52. when a sudden windstorm hit the area creating six to 10 foot waves and turning over at least 10 fishing boats. Mrs. Miller, of ROchester, was in a boat on the southeast corner with husband and two sons when their boat was overturned. SHe died of a heart attack after goin under at least once. Rochester News-Sentinel of Friday, November 10, 1939 ---- The body of a 46-year-old Culver colored man, whom police described as "his own worst enemy" was taken from the cold waters of Lake Maxinkuckee at Culver Thursday morning about 8 o'clock, after he had been missing 15 days. He was George BROWN, a handy man about the town there. Coroner L. W. VORE of Plymouth returned a verdict of accidental drowning while fishing. The colored man a former employe [employee] at the Culver Military Academy, was last seen about 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 by A. B. "Nick" LONG, who had given him some minnows before he rowed his boat away from Brown's and came to shore. When Long arose the next morning and went to the lake for more fishing, he saw the empty boat, anchored at about the spot at which he had last seen it the night before. Upon investigating, officials found part of the fish line and a baited hook on the inside of the boat but the pole was missing. The colored man's wife, Ada Lee [BROWN], reported to Town Marshal Charles BUFFINGTON early on the morning of Oct. 26 that her husband had not been home over night and feared that he had drowned while fishing. Mr. Buffington, along with other men, began to draw the vicinity where the boat was anchored. At intervals the men continued dragging the vicinity until Monday noon, Oct. 30, when they gave up the search. Cold weather and high waves halted their search at times. About 8 o'clock Thursday morning, Ivan LOWDON and "Monty" LAWRENCE saw the body floating on the lake, about 250 yards off shore from the site of the old Lake View hotel, with the fish pole still clutched in his hand. The men rowed a boat out into the lake and brought the dead man's body ashore and called the Easterday funeral home at Culver. The funeral home in turn immediately notified Dr. Vore who ordered the funeral director to remove the body to the funeral home. The dead man, a resident of Culver many years, was a veteran of the World war, having fought with 809th Pioneer Infantry, Company A and enlisted at Indianapolis. He was honorably discharged on July 23, 1919, after serving about one year. Thursday, July 22, 1943 Rochester Sentinel ---Culver, July 22. -- The body of Herbert SHAFFER, 34, Logansport business man who was drowned July 10 in Lake Maxinkuckee, was recovered at 7:10 o'clock last night after it was sighted about 100 feet off the east shore of the lake. The body had drifted about a half mile from where the drowning occurred. The recovery came after eleven days of searching for the body. Howard WADDELL, 28, of Logansport, who also drowned when the two men's boat was upset by the waves from a passing motorboat, is still missing. Search for his body is to be resumed with renewed effort. Monday, August 9, 1943 Rochester Sentinel --- Logansport, Aug. 9. -- Funeral services were held this afternoon for Howard WADDELL, 28, whose body was recovered from Lake Maxinkuckee at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, 27 days after he and a companion, Herbert SHAFER, were drowned. Repeated dynamiting of the lake probably dislodged the body and brought it to the surface. Dynamiting was begun Friday after every other effort to locate the body had failed. It took six more days to locate Waddell than any other drowning victim in the history of Maxinkuckee. Thursday, December 13, 1945 Rochester Sentinel ---- David Judge Hughes - Plymouth, Dec. 13. (INS) - Funeral services were planned today for David Judge HUGHES, five-year-old son of Mrs. Charles E. HUGHES, of Culver, who drowned Wednesday afternoon. The child broke through the ice of Lake Maxinkuckee. The body was found after the mother missed the boy and began a search with neighbors Tuesday, January 22, 1946 Rochester Sentinel - John Milton MILNER, age 49, owner of the Culver Sheet Metal Wokers [Workers], was stricken with a heart attack Sunday afternoon at 3:30 while fishing through the ice on Lake Maxinkuckee. Norman DUDDLESON, who was ice skating, discovered Mr. Milner and summoned Dr. K. K. KRANING, of Kewanna, another fisherman on the lake. Dr. Kraning administered first aid to Mr. Milner but later pronounced him dead. He was carried to the shore by Donald MIKESELL and Ford OVERMYER. He was born in Darling, Brown county, Indiana, and when a child lived in Indianapolis, going to Culver in 1919. Mr. Milner served in the Air Corps during World War I . He was a member of the Culver Masonic Lodge. Surviving are his wife Iva [MILNER]; a daughter, Mrs. Charles CLIFTON, of Culver; a son, Dan [MILNER], at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George MILNER, of Harbor Springs, Mich., and a half-sister, Mrs. Salina MALONE, of San Francisco. Monday, January 13, 1947 - Rochester Sentinel ---- Stella Simmons, Betty Smith, Winston Turner and Paul Robertson - Culver, Ind., Jan. 13. - Four children drowned Saturday night in Lake Maxinkuckee after falling through a hole in the ice.... 1952 - July 9 – The first drowning in Lake Maxinkuckee since 1947 occurred July 4 when the body of Curtis Blanton, of Louellen, Ky., was found in three feet of water at the town beach 1956 - 18 January --- Tragedy on Lake Mars Weekend -- Lake Maxinkuckee was the scene Saturday afternoon of another tragedy in the Culver Community. James Lee Grubbs, age 23, of Mishawaka drowned when the motor propelled ice boat in which he was riding struck an open place in the ice drowning him into the lake where the water was 0 or 60 feet deep. Mr. Grubbs with his companion, Wilfred J. Richards, of Elkhart had been ice sledding and skating most of the day. Richards was on his skates at the time of the accident and Grubbs was ridding in the ice boat belonging to Ray Kline of Culver when he hit a spot where the ice was only one half inch thick throwing him about 20 feet clear of the boat into the water. His cries for help were heard by Kenneth Kemple, Culver; who was fishing through the ice about 150 yards from the place where Grubbs went into the water. Walker Winslow and Jerome Zechiel Jr. both of Culver who were in ice sail boats, tried to help. Mr. Winslow broke through the ice in his boat which floated until Mr. Zechiel helped get him back on the ice. Meanwhile, the Culver Fire Department was called and obtaining a boat, oars, ropes and hooks from the Allen Boat House, fire Chief David Burns, with firemen Oscar Booker and Eugene A. Black, got in the boat on the ice. Other men pushed the boat so that it slid into the opening. By this time Mr. Grubbs had gone down and all hopes of recovering him alive ha passed. The firemen in the boat began dragging for his body as Mr. Kemple broke more ice to make the opening larger. Firemen Irwin Hatten, Donovan Overmyer, and Verl McFeely remained on the ice and as the men in the boat dropped the hooks then the men on the ice pulled the ropes to which the hooks were attached. One the fourth attempt they were able to recover the body. To get the boat back on the ice, a roper was fastened to the front while the men remained in the back of the boat so the front would be tilted up. The men who were 100 feet back on solid ice pulled the boat back to safety. Great dexterity and bravery were shown by the firemen who, without any thought of their own safety, risk their lives to help someone in trouble. All the men concerned are worthy of great praise for the skillfulness and rapidity with which they where able to recover the drowned man's body under such hazardous conditions. Monday, June 25, 1956 Rochester Sentinel --- Cecil Slusser - Two drownings but a few moments apart occurred Sunday afternoon in lakes in this vicinity. The victims were Cecil SLUSSER, 19, of near Logansport .. Slusser was drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee when the boat in which he and four friends were riding was upset when it hit the wake made by a high-powered motor boat. A nearby fishing boat was able to rescue all but Slusser... 1958 - July 9 – John Jewell, 41 of Wabash drowns in Lake near Academy’s swimming pier… 1958 - August 6 – Bob May escapes from burning motor boat… 1960's late - 1970's - ?Mc Kee dau. of Vern Mc Kee of Culver boating accident. M. Hill writes: July 1980, Sunday - Culver Citizen issues 28 July 1980 Andre Guyton drowns in lake Tuesday, September 4, 1990 Rochester Sentinel ---- Selestine WARE, 41, 221 Coolidge Court, Culver, drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee near the Culver Town Park at about 12:02 p.m. Saturday, apparently after suffering a seizure while wading. Marshall County Coroner Ward S. BYERS said she had a history of epileptic seizures. According to the coroner’s report, Ware was seen walking in shallow water near shore around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. She was found about 30 minutes later floating in the lake. Ware was pulled from the water by a passerby, Byers reported. Born May 21, 1949, at Madison, Miss., she lived all her life in the Fulton-Marshall County areas. She married Tommie L. WARE on Dec. 25, 1970 in Rochester. He died March 17, 1989. Surviving are her stepmother, Edith GRIFFIN, Rochester; half-brother, Anderson BARNEY, Chicago, Ill. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Culver Grace United Church of Christ with the Revs. Donald WAGNER and Warner HARRIS officiating. Burial will be in the Culver Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the Bonine Funeral Home, Culver, from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Memorials may be made to the Culver Grace United Church of Christ or the Culver Town Park 23 Dec 2003 - Thomas Perkins, 17, and Brandon Robinson, 18, both of Rochester, are still missing after canoeing in Lake Maxinkuckee - - 5 Mar 2004 - and a near tragedy - Fishermen urged to stay off Lake Maxinkuckee By Anthony Gadson Pilot News CULVER - The ice fishing season is coming to a close, and that was made no more evident than when the Culver Fire Department, police, EMS, and Culver Academy Lake Patrol were called out on Lake Maxinkuckee to retrieve Terry Heret of Rochester out of the lake. Departments were called out to the west side of the lake, in the area of 320 E. Davis St., at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. Upon arrival at the location Culver Police Officer Chad Becker encountered Ronald Jelinek Jr. of Culver. Jelinek informed Becker that he and his friend had fallen through the ice. Jelinek had fallen through the ice three times on his way back to shore, but Heret was still stuck 350 feet offshore. Jelinek claimed that he didn't feel any injury from hypothermia and declined treatment. Heret was able to gain the attention of officers by shining a flashlight from his location. Two Culver firefighters then put on their gumby suits and took a basket out to retrieve Heret. Once back onshore Heret was able to get his body temperature back up, and declined medical treatment. Though there was no injuries suffered on the two's Wednesday night trip, residents are urged to refrain from ice fishing on the lake. "I'd say that all the ice will be melted by the weekend," Culver Fire Chief Lance Overmyer said. In a strange twist, the location that the two men went onto the lake, is the exact same location that two young men, Thomas Perkins and Brandon Robinson, had entered when they drowned in the lake at the end of 2003. 10 Aug 2005 - Academy single engine piper warrior nose dives into lake. Drowning was Brent Bauman, 24 of Niwat, Co. and Peter Mueller, 14 of Tampa, Fl. Miller struck by boat on Lake Maxinkuckee - CULVER - A 14-year-old girl was transported to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, late Saturday afternoon after she was struck by a boater on Lake Maxinkuckee. According to Indiana Conservation Officers, Jessica A. Miller, of Plymouth, was being towed on an inner tube behind a boat operated by Stephen Hall of Bremen. Apparently, Department of Natural Resources officials say Miller had fallen off of the inner tube and was waiting for Hall's boat to come back and pick her up. As she was waiting in the water, a second boat, being driven by Gerald Thomas, of Culver, apparently did not see her. Miller was struck by Thomas's boat and motor, receiving lacerations to her lower back and both feet. She was transported to the hospital by Culver EMS. Assisting Conservation Officers was the Marshall County Police Department, Culver Police and Culver EMS. It was determined that alcohol was not a factor in the accident.---- Plymouth Pilot News - Monday, 7 August 2006 Girl Hit in Boating Accident - (WSBT) A 14-year-old girl is recovering after being hit by a boat Saturday afternoon. It happened on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver. Investigators say the teenager was on a tube being pulled by a boat when she fell off. That's when a second boat hit her. She was taken to a Plymouth hospital. No official word on her condition. Police are calling it an accident and say alcohol was not a factor. On Lake Maxinkuckee near the Marshall County town of Culver, a boat ran into a 14-year-old girl, cutting her lower back and both of her feet. Conservation officers say the girl had just fallen off an inner tube that another boat was towing and the operator of the second boat didn’t see her in the water. - My Q101 News |
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