The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-12
Young
Killed
In Auto Crash
Jack Rowland Meets Death
In Early Morning Accident
At Salt Lake City.
COMPANION SUFFERED
BRUISED CHEST

Sudden loss of one of Its finest
young men, Jack Rowland, in a
spectacular auto accident near Salt
Lake City, Utah, Sunday morning,
left this community shocked,
grieved and in deep sympathy with
the victims parents, Mr.. and. Mrs.
NJ. D. Rowland
Jonathan D. Rowland, ~, was
killed instantly and his companion,
Joseph G. Allen, injured when their
car plunged over 55-foot embank-
ment on the northern outskirts OF
the city as Allen dozed moments r
lily at the wheel According to 20
lice, Jacks skull was fractur d
when he was pinned beneath the
machine at the bottom of the bark
and the machine had to be lifted
off his body.
Allen, IS, who lived at the same
house with Jack, suffered a bruised
chest and abrasions of the fore
head =
The young men were returning
from Ogden and had been having
car trouble enroute previous to the
occurrence of the accident at 900
a. m. When the car swerved from
the Victory Road highway and ov-
erturned at the bottom of the en-
bankment, Jack WHO was asleep be-
side the driver was partially
thrown from the machine. Help was
sent at once to the scene of the
accident but it was too late to save
his life.
News Of the accident arrived in
Libby about $50 Sunday morning
when Jacks roommate, T.. w. Lief
Ter, wired Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland
Jack had been in Salt Lake City
since last summer in the employ
of the Texas Co.
Jacks brother, Lemar, engaged
in radio work for NJ B. G., left New,
York City early Monday morning
] by plane and arrived Monday even
ing in Spokane to be met there By
Dexter Shaurette and w. T. Rrpph
who drove him to Libby that same
night Mrs. G. c. Parker of Ia
coma, Wash, sister of Mrs. Row
land, arrived here Monday noon or
the Empire Builder. Mrs. j. ID
Rowland, Jacks grandmother, ex-
poets to come here later from her
home at Milton, Ia.
Funeral services are to be held
at 230 Friday afternoon from the
Gompf Funeral Home with the Rev.
E. Roy Fort of the Methodist church
officiating. Hymns for the service
will be sung by Mrs. Walter Neils,
Mrs. James Krall and Mrs. Gleason
Pitcher and pallbearers will be Har-
ry Waylett Ed Boyes, Ralph Smith
berger, James Harris, Jr, Max
Sturm and Gordon Cornell. The
local Masonic lodge, of which Jack
was member, will hold graveside
services at the Libby cemetery,
Members of the lodge assembled
and went to the station to meet the
body as it arrived by train Wednes-
day afternoon and escorted it to
the funeral chapel
Jack was born in Libby Oct 1B,
1914 and graduated from the Libby
schools He studied at Montana
State College at Bozeman and at
the University of Minnesota. While
at Bozeman he joined Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity After gradual
ing from the Montana State Uni
versity last spring, he was en-
ployed by the Texas Co. and worked
at Butte. until going to Salt Lake
City
In letter to MIR. and Mrs. Row
land, C.. d. Meltabarger, assistant
district manager for the Texas Co,
states: THE news of your sons
tragic death comes to us as. very
great shock. Jack was most like
able boy. He was rapidly fitting
himself into an important niche in
our Salt Lake City organization.
His energy, enthusiasm, unfailing
optimism and cheerfulness assured
him Of welcome everywhere. We
shall miss him and regret his abb
sence. To you we extend our sim
cerest sympathies. You may well
be proud he was your son =
The words of Mr. Meltabarger
voice the thoughts and sympathies
of Jacks many friends and &C
quaintances Of this entire COM
munity