When Elmer Craig Howland was born in 1917 in Wall, New Jersey, his father, William, was 43 and his mother, Mary, was 37. He had five brothers and three sisters. He died in Monmouth, New Jersey.
Elmer Craig Howland, 21 of 513 St. CLair Avenue, was drowned Sunday at the foot of Madison Avenue. According to reports he was caught in a sea puss.
Robert Simmers, Philadelphia, an employe at the Breakers Hotel here who fills in as guard when the guard at the private hotel beach nearby is away at lunch, said Howland apparently became trapped in a sea puss. He started to his aid when heard the man cry for help. Simmers said, but young Howland had vanished when he reached the scene and Simmers was unable to locate his body.
Lifeguards at the borough's four municipal beaches were dragging for the body when Richard day, one of a group of volunteers who were searching the ocean a short distance from shore, recovered the body between the shore line and an offshore sandbar.
Members of the Spring Lake First aid squad tried unsuccessfully to revive the man.
Dr. Harvey W. Hartman, county physician, ordered the body removed to the Lefferson Funeral Home, Manasquan. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Charles M. Hogate, pastor of the Manasquan Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in the Wall Church Cemetery, Wall Township.
Surviving are Mr. Howland's mother, Mrs. Mary (Moser) Howland; three sisters, Mrs. Emma H. Shinn, Sea Girt, Mrs. Viola Brockstedt, South Belmar, and Mrs. Helen Kiesel, Middle Village, L. I., and three brothers, Charles and Russell, Spring Lake, and Augustus, Manasquan.
Obituary from the Spring Lake Gazette on Sep 7, 1939
Elmer Craig Howland, 21 of 513 St. CLair Avenue, was drowned Sunday at the foot of Madison Avenue. According to reports he was caught in a sea puss.
Robert Simmers, Philadelphia, an employe at the Breakers Hotel here who fills in as guard when the guard at the private hotel beach nearby is away at lunch, said Howland apparently became trapped in a sea puss. He started to his aid when heard the man cry for help. Simmers said, but young Howland had vanished when he reached the scene and Simmers was unable to locate his body.
Lifeguards at the borough's four municipal beaches were dragging for the body when Richard day, one of a group of volunteers who were searching the ocean a short distance from shore, recovered the body between the shore line and an offshore sandbar.
Members of the Spring Lake First aid squad tried unsuccessfully to revive the man.
Dr. Harvey W. Hartman, county physician, ordered the body removed to the Lefferson Funeral Home, Manasquan. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Charles M. Hogate, pastor of the Manasquan Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in the Wall Church Cemetery, Wall Township.
Surviving are Mr. Howland's mother, Mrs. Mary (Moser) Howland; three sisters, Mrs. Emma H. Shinn, Sea Girt, Mrs. Viola Brockstedt, South Belmar, and Mrs. Helen Kiesel, Middle Village, L. I., and three brothers, Charles and Russell, Spring Lake, and Augustus, Manasquan.
Obituary from the Spring Lake Gazette on Sep 7, 1939
When Elmer Craig Howland was born in 1917 in Wall, New Jersey, his father, William, was 43 and his mother, Mary, was 37. He had five brothers and three sisters. He died in Monmouth, New Jersey.
Elmer Craig Howland, 21 of 513 St. CLair Avenue, was drowned Sunday at the foot of Madison Avenue. According to reports he was caught in a sea puss.
Robert Simmers, Philadelphia, an employe at the Breakers Hotel here who fills in as guard when the guard at the private hotel beach nearby is away at lunch, said Howland apparently became trapped in a sea puss. He started to his aid when heard the man cry for help. Simmers said, but young Howland had vanished when he reached the scene and Simmers was unable to locate his body.
Lifeguards at the borough's four municipal beaches were dragging for the body when Richard day, one of a group of volunteers who were searching the ocean a short distance from shore, recovered the body between the shore line and an offshore sandbar.
Members of the Spring Lake First aid squad tried unsuccessfully to revive the man.
Dr. Harvey W. Hartman, county physician, ordered the body removed to the Lefferson Funeral Home, Manasquan. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Charles M. Hogate, pastor of the Manasquan Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in the Wall Church Cemetery, Wall Township.
Surviving are Mr. Howland's mother, Mrs. Mary (Moser) Howland; three sisters, Mrs. Emma H. Shinn, Sea Girt, Mrs. Viola Brockstedt, South Belmar, and Mrs. Helen Kiesel, Middle Village, L. I., and three brothers, Charles and Russell, Spring Lake, and Augustus, Manasquan.
Obituary from the Spring Lake Gazette on Sep 7, 1939
Elmer Craig Howland, 21 of 513 St. CLair Avenue, was drowned Sunday at the foot of Madison Avenue. According to reports he was caught in a sea puss.
Robert Simmers, Philadelphia, an employe at the Breakers Hotel here who fills in as guard when the guard at the private hotel beach nearby is away at lunch, said Howland apparently became trapped in a sea puss. He started to his aid when heard the man cry for help. Simmers said, but young Howland had vanished when he reached the scene and Simmers was unable to locate his body.
Lifeguards at the borough's four municipal beaches were dragging for the body when Richard day, one of a group of volunteers who were searching the ocean a short distance from shore, recovered the body between the shore line and an offshore sandbar.
Members of the Spring Lake First aid squad tried unsuccessfully to revive the man.
Dr. Harvey W. Hartman, county physician, ordered the body removed to the Lefferson Funeral Home, Manasquan. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Charles M. Hogate, pastor of the Manasquan Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in the Wall Church Cemetery, Wall Township.
Surviving are Mr. Howland's mother, Mrs. Mary (Moser) Howland; three sisters, Mrs. Emma H. Shinn, Sea Girt, Mrs. Viola Brockstedt, South Belmar, and Mrs. Helen Kiesel, Middle Village, L. I., and three brothers, Charles and Russell, Spring Lake, and Augustus, Manasquan.
Obituary from the Spring Lake Gazette on Sep 7, 1939
