Date : 28 Feb 1964
Location : Cedar Crest Cemetery, Jesup, IA
INDEPENDENCE
Charles E. Leary, 76, of Independence, died about 6 p.m. Tuesday in People's hospital here of injuries suffered in a pedestrian traffic accident on a downtown street at 2:50 p.m.
According to a statement given to police by Eugene Lewis Spece, 35, of Independence, Spece was driving his ton and a half truck east on First St. toward the Second Ave. stoplight.
He said another vehicle had stopped for the light in an outside lane. Spece, traveling in the center lane had stopped one or two vehicle lengths west of the intersection.
He told police that when the light changed Leary walked or ran in front of the vehicle in the outside lane and into the side of his truck.
Leary died of a basal skull fracture.
Police investigation of the accident has been completed and no charges were filed.
Leary was a longtime resident of the Jesup area and moved to Independence recently.
He is survived by his widow, three sons, Lloyd, Freeport, Ill.; Robert, Jesup, and Raymond, Walker; two daughters, Mrs. Harry Baldwin, Jesup, and Mrs. Lawren Forney, Seville, O.
Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Friday at the Parker funeral home in Jesup, with burial in Cedar Crest cemetery there.
Waterloo Daily Courier - Feb 26, 1964
