Webster, David Earl ""Doc"

Passed: 1946-06-08

Age: 63

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1946-06-21

Information: FAIRPLAIN MAN IS DROWNED - EARL WEBSTER IS DROWNED WHILE FISHING IN SANDUSKY BAY - David Earl Webster, better known to his friends here as ""Doc"", was drowned along with two companions while fishing in Sandusky Bay at Lake Erie on Saturday, June 8.  The bodies of the three men were not recovered for some time after they had been reported as missing.      While the exact reason for the three men losing their lives will..........of Mr. Webster said that they were told that a storm came up over the lake about the time the men were known to have been out in the boat, which was found overturned in the bay when a search was started for the three men.      Mr. Webster, who was 63 years of age, spent the early part of his life in the Fairplain community, later going to Akron where for many years he had been employed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.  Surviving are one brother, Austin Webster of Texas; two nephews, Brice Hanning of Akron and Walter Hanning of Ripley, and two nieces, Mrs. Frances Casto of Given and Mrs. Opal Taylor of Charleston.  Funeral services were held in Akron on Tuesday afternoon and burial was in the Elliott Memorial Park in that city.  Attending the funeral from this section were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hanning of Ripley and Mrs. Gertrude Webster of Cottageville.