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Schrag, Duane Wallace (1925-1936)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1936 Jul 8 p. 1
Birth date: 1925 Apr 27
text of obituary:
An accidental gunshot wound slightly above the right groin on Thursday night, June 25, claimed the life of Ernest Stucky, 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. Stucky, who reside four miles east of Monroe, Wash.
Ernest would have been a junior in the Sultan high school next fall. He had been working all day, digging up old railway ties for building a private road from the main highway to his parents' home.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Ernest and his father, who was working in the field, halted their labors for a brief rest at the ranch house. When they left the house to resume work the father instructed him to bring the cows in from pasture when he quit work for the day.
About 5:30 in the evening, according to the report of the tragedy, the boy's parents became worried when he failed to return to the house. They could see the cattle still in pasture, and Mrs. Stucky herded them to the barn.
Two hours later Ernest's continued absence alarmed the parents and they set out to search for him. His lifeless form was found near the road on which he had worked all day. A physician was called, but the doctor announced death had supposedly occurred from heart failure.
It was only at the funeral home, where the body was disrobed, that the bullet would near the abdomen was discovered and death was considered the evident result of internal bleeding.
In his pocket, however, there were powder burns, leading the officers to believe the pistol, a .22 caliber firearm, was accidentally discharged as he stooped over while laboring on the road.
Ernest, his father was quoted as saying, had been told not to touch the pistol, which was at least 30 years old, rusty, and dangerous to handle. Later the short firearm was located within a few feet of where Ernest died.
Ernest is survived by his parents and two sisters. Mrs. Clarence Schwartz and Miss Doris Stucky.
Monroe, Washington, June 24. — Eleven-year-old Duane Schrag, son of Ewald J. Schrag of Monroe, died late Tuesday afternoon at Monroe as Snohomish County's 16th traffic accident victim since the first of the year.
Duane was bicycling in from the Ben Howard road near Monroe onto the main highway and was pumping hard on a slight incline on the south entrance to the Lewis street bridge, just prior to the accident.
He failed to see a log truck ahead, according to reports. A big timber swayed, knocked him to the pavement and the heavy machine passed over his body crushing him badly.
The truck driver Harry Johnson of the White star Transfer, Everett, was not held.
Duane's father is employed by the Shell Oil Company at Monroe.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1936 Jul 8 p. 6
text of obituary:
Duane Wallace Schrag, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwald Schrag, 434 Sam st., Monroe, Washington, died Tuesday, June 23, from injuries received when hit by a logging truck while riding his bicycle.
Duane was born in Monroe April 27, 1925, and was 11 years old. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Schrag; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Garber of Monroe; three uncles, Leonard Schrag, Andrew J. Schrag, Joe J. Schrag of Monroe; two aunts, Mrs. Leonard Schrag of Monroe, and Mrs. Edward Stucky of Snohomish. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, June 25, at 2 o'clock in the First Methodist church in Monroe with the Rev. Harry Allen officiating. Interment was in the cemetery at Monroe, under direction of E. E. Purdy and Sons.
