ARLINGTON YOUTH, 22, CRASH VICTIM

Vincent Lyons Killed, 2 Others Injured Late Thursday.

An Arlington youth was killed and two other Arlington persons were injured Thursday night when their car overturned on Highway 30 about four miles east of Fremont.

Killed was Vincent Lyons, Jr., 22, who lived on a farm near Arlington. The injured are Leonard Dickmeyer, 15, and Allan Sorensen, 21.

Dickmeyer was taken to Dodge County Community hospital with fractured legs below the knees and “considerable” shock. His condition was listed as “fair” Friday by attendants. Sorensen was shaken and bruised.

Sorensen told Highway Patrolman Cpl. J. E. Kruger that Lyons was the driver of the car at the time of the accident. He said that he was riding in the back seat when the car apparently went out of control.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident.

According to the registration certificate on the car, the owner was listed as Albert Dickmeyer of Arlington - the injured youth’s father.

The car was traveling east at the time of the accident and marks showed, according to County Attorney Charles H. Yost, that the car had gone out of control about 180 feet from where it stopped. Debris was scattered for about 150 feet, and witnesses to the crash stated that they believed the car rolled “two or three” times before it came to rest in the ditch on the north side of the road.

Both doors and the hood were torn off during the falling. The car was right side up in the ditch when it stopped.

Lloyd Scheer, 1444 East Dodge street, Fremont, who reported the accident to police t 10:24 p.m. was approaching the Arlington car before the accident. He said the car appeared to take “two rolls”.

Roy Follen, Blair, who was driving a truck west, said he saw the accident. He stated that the Arlington car “jumped up” in the air high enough as it approached him for him to see another eastbound car behind the Arlington machine.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Congregational church with Rev. Stephen Matheny, pastor of the church officiating, and interment under the supervision of the Campbell Mortuary was made in the Blair cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #117171777