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Brookover, Bertie & Irene drown News_LoganDailyNews19570617_1

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Irene N. Brookover,age 39; Bertie L Brookover Jr, age 10; and Terry Lynn Rexroad age 8
The Logan Daily News
Logan, Ohio •
Mon, Jun 17, 1957 p1
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nlunsford • Feb 21, 2017•

• An Athens County mother, her son and nephew drowned in the Hocking River two miles east of Stewart Sunday afternoon.
The Athens County sheriff’s department listed the drowning victims as Mrs. Irene M. Brookover, 39, Bertie L. Brookover, 10, of Stewart Rt. 1 and Terry Lynn Rexroads, 8, of Lumberport, W. Va.
The Rexroads boy and his mother were visiting the Brookover family.
The boys were wading in the river on a sandbar about 4 PM when Terry was swept downstream by a swift undercurrent. The brookover boy tried to reach him and wasa also swept under. Mrs Brookover endeavored to reach the two and was also carried under.
A swimmer, James England, 15, of Frost Rt. 1, reached Mrs Brookover about five minutes after she wwent under and brought her to shore. Resuscitation attempts were in vain.
Athens firemen recovered her son's body about 6 PM and other divers recovered the body of the Rexroads boy aboiut 10 PM

Girl, 13, Drowns In Hocking County
Hocking County had its first drowning of the year Sunday when a 13-year-old Fairfield County girl lost her life in Clear Creek.
Dead is Donna Lou Bigham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lee Bigham of Lancaster Rt. 1. She was one of 12 who drowned in Ohio over the weekend.

An honor eighth grade student famUy- at North elementary school in Lan-
caster, Donna was on an outing with her parents and two brothers when Terry was swept downstream and four sisters by

? swift undercurrent. The According to Fairfield County Br®°kov" V°y tri",.‘° 'T*ch kim Sheriff Dole George, the drowning and .»«» «l»o .wept, under.

Mfg. victim iteppcd Into a 15-foot hole ™ while wading in Clear Creek about ? i, 2 p.m. The spot where she drowned f p , R. _chMl R ’ £ is 100 feet inside the Hocking Fair- QV about five minutes after she field line. Xmo ~'wm ..................- *”,v i .i # ^ "ent under and brought her 10 First indication of the tragedy shore.

Resuscitation attempts were was given when Donna's sister jn vain. Penny, age 4, ran to her parents, Athens firemen recovered her who were getting picnic food from son’s body about 6 p.m. and other their car, exclaiming, "Sissy is divers recovered the body of the hiding." They then learned from Rexroads boy about 10 p.m. their other children that Donna had been wading. Her father drove to Revenge to phone the Fairfield County sheriff s department.

Sheriff George and two deputies used grappling hooks to recover the body. The body was recovered about 5 p.m. Dr. Owen F. Yaw, Hocking County coroner, examined the body and declared the death as "accidental due to drowning." Survivors, besides the parents,

United States
Ohio
Logan
The Logan Daily News
1957
Jun
17
Page 1
Irene N. Brookover,age 39; Bertie L Brookover Jr, age 10; and Terry Lynn Rexroad age 8