Senator Hartkes Sister Is Killed
NAPOLEON. Ohio (UPI)Miss Ruth Hartke, 57, Dearborn, Mich., sister of Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind. Was killed early today in a two-car collision on U.S. 24 about 13 miles east of here.
Miss Hartke was well-known in Adams county Democrats. She attended the senator's reception at the annual Indiana Democratic Editor's summer meeting at French Lick three weeks ago, and only last week had telephoned S. H. Schurger, local coordinator for the Hartke campaign, urging him to attend a meeting last Friday in Indianapolis.
Miss Hartke, who was supervisor of primary education in the Dearborn public schools on the outskirts of Detroit, was on her way back home in preparation for the opening of the fall school term after a trip to Indiana.
She had been active in Sen. Hartke's campaign for pre-election in a second sex-year term in the Senate in recent weeks and had made speeches at party rallies on his behalf.
Henry County Sheriff's officers said they did not know how the accident happened, since there were no witnesses. They said Miss Harken's car collided with one driven by ??? Kahil, 36, ??, Stendhal, Ohio. Kahil was taken to Napoleon Hospital in fair condition.
The accident happened only three miles from the scene of an accident Monday in which five persons were killed in a head-on collision.
Miss Hartke had been in Indianapolis during the weekend and was enroute to Dearborn for a breakfast engagement.
A school teacher all her life, Miss Hartke taught in grade school at Ind., family home of the Hartke's northeast of Evansville. Once the senator was in her classes.
Miss Hartke had worked as a volunteer at Hartke's campaign headquarters in Indianapolis during the past summer while schools were on vacation. She helped organize volunteer groups around the states to work on the senator's behalf.
On three occasions, Miss Hartke made public appearances for her brother when he was prevented from carrying out commitments because of conflicts. Twice at Bluffton and English, Ind., she spoke briefly. At Greencastle, Ind., she appeared at a fair.
Hartke's office immediately cancelled his engagements through Thursday. The senator went to the family home at Stendhal to be with his widowed mother, the retired postmaster of the small Pike County town.
Miss Harke was a graduate of Evansville College. She received a masters degree at the University of Michigan and had done advanced study at the Universities of Michigan and Maine, Columbia, Wayne State and Michigan State.
She taught school for 23 years and taught the semester when he was in the second grade at Stendhal. She was a member of the State Education Committee, of Michigan at the time of her death.
The breakfast she was scheduled to attend was for supervisory personnel of the Dearborn schools.
The accident happened about 1:15 a.m. EST, only seven miles from the town where Miss Hartke's cousin, the Rev. Waldo Egbert, serves as pastor of St. Austine's Church in Napoleon.
The body was taken to the Walker Funeral Home at Napoleon. It was to be taken to Indiana later today. (Tues. Sept. 1, 1964)
(From obit book at Berne Library, Berne, Indiana)
NAPOLEON. Ohio (UPI)Miss Ruth Hartke, 57, Dearborn, Mich., sister of Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind. Was killed early today in a two-car collision on U.S. 24 about 13 miles east of here.
Miss Hartke was well-known in Adams county Democrats. She attended the senator's reception at the annual Indiana Democratic Editor's summer meeting at French Lick three weeks ago, and only last week had telephoned S. H. Schurger, local coordinator for the Hartke campaign, urging him to attend a meeting last Friday in Indianapolis.
Miss Hartke, who was supervisor of primary education in the Dearborn public schools on the outskirts of Detroit, was on her way back home in preparation for the opening of the fall school term after a trip to Indiana.
She had been active in Sen. Hartke's campaign for pre-election in a second sex-year term in the Senate in recent weeks and had made speeches at party rallies on his behalf.
Henry County Sheriff's officers said they did not know how the accident happened, since there were no witnesses. They said Miss Harken's car collided with one driven by ??? Kahil, 36, ??, Stendhal, Ohio. Kahil was taken to Napoleon Hospital in fair condition.
The accident happened only three miles from the scene of an accident Monday in which five persons were killed in a head-on collision.
Miss Hartke had been in Indianapolis during the weekend and was enroute to Dearborn for a breakfast engagement.
A school teacher all her life, Miss Hartke taught in grade school at Ind., family home of the Hartke's northeast of Evansville. Once the senator was in her classes.
Miss Hartke had worked as a volunteer at Hartke's campaign headquarters in Indianapolis during the past summer while schools were on vacation. She helped organize volunteer groups around the states to work on the senator's behalf.
On three occasions, Miss Hartke made public appearances for her brother when he was prevented from carrying out commitments because of conflicts. Twice at Bluffton and English, Ind., she spoke briefly. At Greencastle, Ind., she appeared at a fair.
Hartke's office immediately cancelled his engagements through Thursday. The senator went to the family home at Stendhal to be with his widowed mother, the retired postmaster of the small Pike County town.
Miss Harke was a graduate of Evansville College. She received a masters degree at the University of Michigan and had done advanced study at the Universities of Michigan and Maine, Columbia, Wayne State and Michigan State.
She taught school for 23 years and taught the semester when he was in the second grade at Stendhal. She was a member of the State Education Committee, of Michigan at the time of her death.
The breakfast she was scheduled to attend was for supervisory personnel of the Dearborn schools.
The accident happened about 1:15 a.m. EST, only seven miles from the town where Miss Hartke's cousin, the Rev. Waldo Egbert, serves as pastor of St. Austine's Church in Napoleon.
The body was taken to the Walker Funeral Home at Napoleon. It was to be taken to Indiana later today. (Tues. Sept. 1, 1964)
(From obit book at Berne Library, Berne, Indiana)
Senator Hartkes Sister Is Killed
NAPOLEON. Ohio (UPI)Miss Ruth Hartke, 57, Dearborn, Mich., sister of Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind. Was killed early today in a two-car collision on U.S. 24 about 13 miles east of here.
Miss Hartke was well-known in Adams county Democrats. She attended the senator's reception at the annual Indiana Democratic Editor's summer meeting at French Lick three weeks ago, and only last week had telephoned S. H. Schurger, local coordinator for the Hartke campaign, urging him to attend a meeting last Friday in Indianapolis.
Miss Hartke, who was supervisor of primary education in the Dearborn public schools on the outskirts of Detroit, was on her way back home in preparation for the opening of the fall school term after a trip to Indiana.
She had been active in Sen. Hartke's campaign for pre-election in a second sex-year term in the Senate in recent weeks and had made speeches at party rallies on his behalf.
Henry County Sheriff's officers said they did not know how the accident happened, since there were no witnesses. They said Miss Harken's car collided with one driven by ??? Kahil, 36, ??, Stendhal, Ohio. Kahil was taken to Napoleon Hospital in fair condition.
The accident happened only three miles from the scene of an accident Monday in which five persons were killed in a head-on collision.
Miss Hartke had been in Indianapolis during the weekend and was enroute to Dearborn for a breakfast engagement.
A school teacher all her life, Miss Hartke taught in grade school at Ind., family home of the Hartke's northeast of Evansville. Once the senator was in her classes.
Miss Hartke had worked as a volunteer at Hartke's campaign headquarters in Indianapolis during the past summer while schools were on vacation. She helped organize volunteer groups around the states to work on the senator's behalf.
On three occasions, Miss Hartke made public appearances for her brother when he was prevented from carrying out commitments because of conflicts. Twice at Bluffton and English, Ind., she spoke briefly. At Greencastle, Ind., she appeared at a fair.
Hartke's office immediately cancelled his engagements through Thursday. The senator went to the family home at Stendhal to be with his widowed mother, the retired postmaster of the small Pike County town.
Miss Harke was a graduate of Evansville College. She received a masters degree at the University of Michigan and had done advanced study at the Universities of Michigan and Maine, Columbia, Wayne State and Michigan State.
She taught school for 23 years and taught the semester when he was in the second grade at Stendhal. She was a member of the State Education Committee, of Michigan at the time of her death.
The breakfast she was scheduled to attend was for supervisory personnel of the Dearborn schools.
The accident happened about 1:15 a.m. EST, only seven miles from the town where Miss Hartke's cousin, the Rev. Waldo Egbert, serves as pastor of St. Austine's Church in Napoleon.
The body was taken to the Walker Funeral Home at Napoleon. It was to be taken to Indiana later today. (Tues. Sept. 1, 1964)
(From obit book at Berne Library, Berne, Indiana)
NAPOLEON. Ohio (UPI)Miss Ruth Hartke, 57, Dearborn, Mich., sister of Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind. Was killed early today in a two-car collision on U.S. 24 about 13 miles east of here.
Miss Hartke was well-known in Adams county Democrats. She attended the senator's reception at the annual Indiana Democratic Editor's summer meeting at French Lick three weeks ago, and only last week had telephoned S. H. Schurger, local coordinator for the Hartke campaign, urging him to attend a meeting last Friday in Indianapolis.
Miss Hartke, who was supervisor of primary education in the Dearborn public schools on the outskirts of Detroit, was on her way back home in preparation for the opening of the fall school term after a trip to Indiana.
She had been active in Sen. Hartke's campaign for pre-election in a second sex-year term in the Senate in recent weeks and had made speeches at party rallies on his behalf.
Henry County Sheriff's officers said they did not know how the accident happened, since there were no witnesses. They said Miss Harken's car collided with one driven by ??? Kahil, 36, ??, Stendhal, Ohio. Kahil was taken to Napoleon Hospital in fair condition.
The accident happened only three miles from the scene of an accident Monday in which five persons were killed in a head-on collision.
Miss Hartke had been in Indianapolis during the weekend and was enroute to Dearborn for a breakfast engagement.
A school teacher all her life, Miss Hartke taught in grade school at Ind., family home of the Hartke's northeast of Evansville. Once the senator was in her classes.
Miss Hartke had worked as a volunteer at Hartke's campaign headquarters in Indianapolis during the past summer while schools were on vacation. She helped organize volunteer groups around the states to work on the senator's behalf.
On three occasions, Miss Hartke made public appearances for her brother when he was prevented from carrying out commitments because of conflicts. Twice at Bluffton and English, Ind., she spoke briefly. At Greencastle, Ind., she appeared at a fair.
Hartke's office immediately cancelled his engagements through Thursday. The senator went to the family home at Stendhal to be with his widowed mother, the retired postmaster of the small Pike County town.
Miss Harke was a graduate of Evansville College. She received a masters degree at the University of Michigan and had done advanced study at the Universities of Michigan and Maine, Columbia, Wayne State and Michigan State.
She taught school for 23 years and taught the semester when he was in the second grade at Stendhal. She was a member of the State Education Committee, of Michigan at the time of her death.
The breakfast she was scheduled to attend was for supervisory personnel of the Dearborn schools.
The accident happened about 1:15 a.m. EST, only seven miles from the town where Miss Hartke's cousin, the Rev. Waldo Egbert, serves as pastor of St. Austine's Church in Napoleon.
The body was taken to the Walker Funeral Home at Napoleon. It was to be taken to Indiana later today. (Tues. Sept. 1, 1964)
(From obit book at Berne Library, Berne, Indiana)
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