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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Clippings
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:37:41 -0500


Raymond WINTERMUTE, twenty-four years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton WINTERMUTE, who resides on the former H. P. Van Fleet farm, near Oldwick, was drowned on Sunday morning at about 11:30 in the Lamington River.

Raymond and his brother, Russell and George SUTTON and Irvin HENDERSHOT, all of Oldwick had gone to the Preen brook near the stone crusher for a swim, but so many were in bathing there that they decided to go to Lamington at a deep hole on the former Schapley farm. HENDERSHOT and SUTTON went in first and one went up stream and one down. Raymond could not swim and he and his brother were on a log or fallen tree that extended from the bank of the stream out over the water. Russell had his back turned at the time and Raymond dove from the tree into the water. It is believed that when he struck the water that he knocked his breath out. After a few minutes when Russell looked for his brother he saw his body at the bottom of the stream. He dove down and tried to drag the body of his brother to shore, but was unable to do so. He then summoned some Boy Scouts who were camping nearby and the group was then able to get the body out. It is believed that the body was not in the water m!
ore than five minutes. While Dr. F.A. APGAR, of Oldwick, was summoned, the Boy Scouts worked over Raymond and partly revived him. It was thought best that he be taken to the Somerville hospital and he was taken there by his brother, but he expired a few minutes after his arrival there. The water was about ten feet deep at the spot of drowning.

The young man is survived by his parents and two brothers, Charles and Russell WINTERMUTE.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the late home. Rev. William BOWERING, pastor of the Whitehouse and Oldwick Methodist Churches, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Oldwick Cemetery.

Mr. WINTERMUTE suffered bruises of the head and he had apparently also been injured in the dive. He was engaged to be married to Miss Sarah VAN PELT, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter VAN PELT, of Pottersville, and the wedding was to have taken place soon.



Fairmount Native Dies

Mrs. Mertie APGAR, 55, died at her home in Chester Tuesday. She was the widow of the late Isaac APGAR of Fairmount. She was born at Fairmount, daughter of the late James LUTES of Fairmount. Her husband died ten years ago. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Floyd LANCE, of Long Valley, Mrs. William KLESS of Irvington, Miss Myrtle APGAR at home and Mrs. Herman WEIL of Chester; also two sisters, Mrs. Carrie BUNN, Mrs. Edward BARTLES, both of Lebanon, and one brother, Ira LUTES of Pottersville.

Funeral services will be held at her late home at Chester Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. Chester L. LEMMON, pastor of Federated Church will officiate. Burial will be made in the family plot in the Fairmount Presbyterian Cemetery.



Blind Man Found Dead

Harmon HENDERSHOT, 61, who lived alone in a lonely spot between Oldwick and Pottersville, was found dead Thursday by the driver of a grocery truck, who called at his home for an order. HENDERSHOT has been receiving treatment for some time for heart disease and had evidently been stricken by a sudden attack as he was about to lie down on a couch. He had been totally blind for ten years. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Harry HAHN, of High Bridge.

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