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From: "B. Warner" <>
Subject: [MOMADISO-L] Miss Kate Davis - Drowed in Fredericktown City Lake
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:50:39 -0600


Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri,
April 6, 1960.

AGED FREDERICKTOWN WOMAN MISSING; MAY HAVE DROWNED.

Miss Kate Davis, 76, of Fredericktown, retired rural school teacher, has
been missing since last Saturday evening, and it is believed she was drowned
in the city lake, which furnishes the water supply for the city.

Miss Davis, driving her own car, had been visiting relatives about two miles
from Fredericktown, and left at 10:00 p.m. to return home and has not been
seen since that time. Her car was recovered from the lake Tuesday
afternoon, with the ignition still on. An amateur skin diver from Poplar
Bluff searched Tuesday evening for her body in the lake without results, and
today four expert skin divers from St. Louis County were secured to assist
in the search. The lake is about ten feet deep at the point where the car
was found.

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Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri,
April 13, 1960.

BODY OF MISS KATE DAVIS RECOVERED FROM LAKE.

The body of Miss Kate Davis, 76 years old Fredericktown woman, who had been
missing since Saturday, April 2, was recovered from the City Lake in
Fredericktown, Friday night, April 8, about nine o'clock. Her green
Plymouth car in which she was driving at the time of the accident, had been
brought from the Lake on Tuesday afternoon.

Funeral services for Miss Davis were held Sunday afternoon at the
Presbyterian Church in Fredericktown.

The search for Miss Davis' body had been continuous since the previous
Sunday, when she was reported missing. Members of the Sheriff's office,
State Highway Patrol, Auxiliary Police and other volunteers searched
Madison County roads for the missing woman and her auto without success.
Professional skin divers were secured from St. Louis, who located the body.

Miss Davis, a veteran Madison County school teacher, was a former teacher in
Flat River schools.







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