Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1922

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Hewson Leonard Mrs 221012 p1
Auto Wreck Fatal to Girl; Young Mother Is Killed as Machines Sideswipe Near Merced Sunday Thrown to the pavement
by a collision on the highway near Merced, Mrs. Leonard Hewson, a former Patterson girl, sustained injuries Sunday
night which proved fatal. The accident was the result of tangling with a passing car, the two passing too close.  The
collision threw the Hewson car around and a third machine directly behind crashed into both, and all three were wrecked.
Hewson and a fourteen months child of the couple escaped injury.
Mrs. Hewson was rushed to a Merced hospital where all possible was done for her, but without avail, and she passed
away at 7 Monday morning.
The unfortunate girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis, former Pattersonites  now of San
Jose, and she spent her school days here, leaving about two years ago.
She was a niece of Mrs. W. (?)  Fowler and they had been visiting at the  Fowler place Sunday, leaving for their home in
Selma that evening.
Services Here
The remains were brought to Patterson and services were held from the Methodist Church yesterday morning, followed
by interment in the family plot at the Newman cemetery.  Davis & Evans had charge of the arrangements.