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    1. Re: [OHErie] Looking for Obit Hazel Austin
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    3. Sandusky Star-News, Tuesday, August 21, 1956, page 1 TRIPLE FUNERAL SERVICE SET AT BERLIN HEIGHTS ~ Two Children Recovered From Bay Waters Triple funeral services for Mrs Hazel Austin, 31, and her children, Cynthia 14 and Robert 12 will beheld at 10am Wednesday in the Hinman Fuenral Home, Berlin Heights, DR Harold Fildey, Oberlin, is to officiate, Burial of the three Sandusky Bay downing victims will be in Riverside Cemetery, Berlin Heights. Friends may call this evening at the fuenral home after 7 o'clock. Former residents of Berlin Heights, the Austin family moved to a home on Patten Tract Road just north of the Erie County line near North Monroeville about seven years ago. The mother was a member of the North Monroeville Congregational Church while the daughter was in the Girl Scouts. The children attended school at Monroeville. It was learned today that the surviving son, Eugene 15, had attended the Erie County Junior Fair here and reported he was too tired to join the other memebers of his family for the fishing trip on Saturday. The father, Mayhew, 40, swam to a range light after the 17-foot speedboat was swamped during the wind and electrical storm. Surviving Mrs Austin besides her husband, are the son, Eugene at home, her parents Mr & Mrs Floyd Smith, rural Berlin Heights, and several brothers and sisters. The three bodies were revocered from Sandusky Bay Monday afternoon. The body of Cynthia was removed off the Hinde & Dauch Paper Co dock, foot of Jackson St, at approximately 12:43 pm. At 2:43pm the Coast Guard removed the body of Mrs Austin from near the Lower Lake Coal loading docks. At 4:12pm the body of Robert was taken from the waters off Union Chain & Mfg Co at the horseshoe. -- Erie County Chapter,OGS. Dues $10 per year. Meetings ~ 3rd Monday of March, April, May, Sept, Oct & Nov Place ~ Zion Lutheran Church, Columbus Ave Sandusky OH at 7pm Erie County Chapter, OGS; POBox 1301; Sandusky OH 44871-1301 --

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