WALDEN, Kenneth - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

A 21-year-old Wallace, Indiana man became Parke county’s sixth highway fatality November 24 in a one-car accident near Lyford.

  David R. Sowers, 21, Wallace, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was alone in the car. Sowers was northbound in a 1982 Plymouth on U. S. 41 when about one mile north of Lyford, he failed to negotiate a small curve in the roadway. The vehicle went off the highway on the east side and hit a tree head-on. The accident occurred at 5:50 a.m. Thursday.

  The crash site was directly across the road from where Kenneth E. Walden, 42, rural Montezuma, was killed in an accident June 24 of this year.

  Sowers was born April 28, 1962 in Crawfordsville, the son of Kedric and Marilyn Hudson Sowers, who survive.

  A 1980 graduate of Fountain Central High School, he was active in athletics. He also played softball in the Fountain County League and was a Little League coach.

  Sowers was an employee of Futurex Plastics at Marshall and had been accepted at the Indiana Police Academy where he was to start in January. He was a member of the military police division of the Indiana National Guard.

  Survivors include two brothers, Kedric Lee Sowers of Covington and Daniel Sowers of Wallace; a sister, Mrs. Gary Ellis of Wallace; two foster brothers, Dan Canterbury of Kansas and Tom Canterbury of Washington state; a foster sister, Mrs. Bruce Dodge of New York; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elon Jackson of Kingman; and his maternal grandparents, B. D. and Charlotte Hudson of Crawfordsville.

  Services were conducted Sunday at Thomas Funeral Home in Waynetown with Rev. Jeffrey Busby officiating. Burial was in Wallace Lutheran Cemetery. The family asked that any memorials be in the form of contributions to the American Heart Association.

  Sowers was Indiana’s first traffic fatality of the Thanksgiving holiday and was the sixth this year on Parke County roads. – thanks so very much to S