Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1924

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Dawson Frank Rev 240605 p1
Drowned in San Joaquin; The San Joaquin river added a second victim to its  annual toll in this vicinity Tuesday evening,
when the Rev. Frank Dawson, pastor of the First Methodist church of Oakdale, was drowned about two miles above the
Crows Landing bridge while spearing salmon. Dawson and two companions from Oakdale had driven over in the
afternoon, attracted by the reports of the heavy run of salmon up the river, and it was but a short time after they had been
fishing that Dawson was missed by his companions, and when they failed to locate him an alarm was sent out. A search
for the body was commenced that evening under the direction of Coroner Carl Shannon, but without success until early
Wednesday morning, when the body was recovered a short distance from where he had been fishing. As he was known to
be a good swimmer, it is difficult to explain the fatality, except on the theory that he stepped off a sandbar into the hole in
the excitement of pursuing a salmon and was stunned by a blow on the head in the fall. It seems an ironical turn of fate
that a good swimmer should perish at the present stage of the river which has very little current and is so low in most
places that it is difficult to find a place deep enough in which to swim.