EMERY, Jack Edward
Source: Fountain County Star Thursday, March 3, 1983
A 27-year-old Attica man was killed in a head on collision Saturday, February 26, on State Road 25. Dead is Jack Edward Emery Jr. of RR 2, Attica. The driver of the other vehicle, Samuel Harkcom, 20, Lafayette, was seriously injured.
According to preliminary reports, Emery was driving a truck west on the state road while Harkcom was eastbound in a van.
Authorities believe Harkcom’s brakes locked, causing his van to slide into the opposite lane, hitting the Emery vehicle head- on.
The accident happened at 8:45 p.m., about two and one half miles west of Lafayette. Harkcom was taken to S. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette for treatment.
Emery was born in Lafayette June 24, 1955, the son of Jack E. and Inez Hanselman Emery. He married Deborah Bray Gustus November 4, 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee. She survives.
He resided in Attica most of his life and graduated from Attica High School. He was an employee in the maintenance department of the Norfolk and Western railroad. He was a member of First Lutheran Church of Attica and the Brotherhood of Maintenance and Ways.
Survivors, in addition to the widow, include two stepsons, Dax Alan Gustus and Ryan Bray Gustus, and a stepdaughter, Leah dawn Gustus, all at home; his parents of Lafayette; a brother, Steven M. Emery of Lafayette; two sisters, Mrs. Cecil Hurst of Dayton, Indiana and Mrs. Jon Swain of Huston, Texas; and is maternal grandmother, Mrs. Alta Hanselman of Lafayette.
Services were Wednesday at Maus Funeral Home in Attica with Rev. Karl Korbel officiating. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery. – thanks so much to s