CASS CITY CHRONICLE
CASS CITY, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947

Two Brothers Drown in Lake Near Pontiac

   Ralph and Ernest Stone Were Victims
   Sunday in Fishing Mishap

  Two brothers, Ernest Stone, 25,
of Hickory Grove Road, Pontiac, and
Ralph Stone, 3O, of 955 Beardslee
Road, Route 1, Lake Orion, drowned
when they fell from their fishing
boat in Commerce Lake, near Pontiac,
about 10:30 a. m. on Sunday. Both
formerly lived at Cass City.

  They went to the lake with Herman
Siewert of Hickory Grove Road.
As they decided to use two boats,
Siewert was fishing alone.

  Whether one of the pair fell and
the other went to his rescue could
not be established as none of those
who witnessed the accident were
close enough to be certain.

  Sheriff's Detectives Elmer McQuern
and Delos Anderson and Deputy Robert
Gordon recovered the bodies.

  Ralph Stone was born in Michigan
Oct 11, 1916.  Ernest was born
in New York July 6, 1922.  They
were the sons of Amos H. and Gladys
Snell Crouch Stone.

  Ralph was a private in the medical
corps, 888 Aviation engineers, and
was honorably discharged on Oct. 8,
1945. He was last employed in the
power house at the Fisher Body
plant in Pontiac. Ernest had been
employed as a farm hand for four
years at Fairfield Farms, Bloomfield
Hills.  Both came to Orion Township
two years ago from Cass City and were
members of tbe Maccabees at Deford.

  Surviving besides the parents are
a brother, Thomas Atfield, of Caro,
and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Schroeder
of Utica.

  Funeral services were held on
Thursday, July 3, at the Purseley
Funeral Home in Pontiac with Rev.
A. H. Meyer of the Bethel Evangelical
Church officiating. Burial was at
Square Lake cemetery.