Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle
Fort Dodge, IA
Wednesday, September 10, 1924
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LEE MYERS, 19-YEAR-OLD BOY, DROWNED TODAY
Lee Myers, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Myers was drowned at San Diego, according to a telegram sent to his parents here today. Young Myers who was a member of the United States navy, in the service less than a year fell from a gang plank, the message states and the body has not been found. No further details were given in the telegram and the family is eagerly awaiting the letter which it stated would follow.
The young man is the only son and besides his parents one sister, Virginia, survives. His father who travels for the U. S. Gypsum company was not at home when the message came but he was located this morning and the sad news given to him.
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Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle
Fort Dodge. IA
Tuesday, September 30, 1924
Page 1
Body Lee Myers, Drowned Sept. 9, Found Monday
The body of Lee J. Myers, nineteen year old sailor son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Myers, 109 south Eighteenth street, who was drowned in the harbor of San Francisco Tuesday, September 9, has been found, according to word received by the parents yesterday, just twenty days after the accident. The telegram which stated that the identification of the body was complete contained no details as to where the body was found. The telegram was sent from the mayor of San Francisco.
The body will be sent to Fort Dodge for burial but as the time of the arrival is uncertain no funeral arrangements have been made.
The young sailor was drowned when he slipped from the gang plank after an evening in San Francisco. An undercurrent in the harbor made it impossible to rescue him although the family here have been assured that every effort was made to do this. Aside from his parents one sister, Virginia, survives.
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Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle
Fort Dodge, IA
Saturday, October 4, 1924
Page 12
Military Honors For Lee Myers; Funeral Is Today
Military honors accorded to Leo J. Myers, sailor who was drowned at San Francisco, September 9, at his funeral here today. Short services were held at the home of the young man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Myers, 109 south Eighteenth street, at 8:30 and from there the body was taken to Sacred Heart church where requiem high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Desmond. Burial was in Corpus Christi cemetery and the pall bearers were Ewald Trost, Andrew Jensen, Albert Kallansrud, Sidney Ackerson, Fay Fowler, Chris Heller, Carl Treband and W. E. Heileman, all of whom were in military uniform.
Young Myers, who had lived all his life in Fort Dodge enlisted in the navy last spring. He was stationed in San Francisco on the S. S. Stoddard for fleet maneuvers, one night returning from liberty lost his footing on the gang plank and was drowned. It was twenty days before the body was found. Mrs. William Tardy of Chicago, Mrs. Oscar Wenner of Garrison, Iowa, were here for the funeral.
Grand Parents are Joseph Henry (Jacques) James, Jr. and Mary Joseph Catherine Lamkin born Apalona, Perry Co., Indiana