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Note: Body of Eugene Drew Found on Bank of Quarry Aged Man, Missing Since August 6, Believed to Have Fallen Fremont (Ohio) News-Messenger, August 13, 1947 Body of Eugene Drew, 86, west Garrison Street, was found on the east bank of the Gottron quarry in the Napoleon-Stone streets vicinity at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. Mr. Drew had beeen missing since August 6. He was located by "Hap" Walden, west Garrison Street, a relative by marriage of the aged man. Dr. F.A. Visconti, Sandusky County, Coroner, said Mr. Drew either stumbled when walking in the area or suffered a heart attack. The body was decomposed. The body was lying in brush and under trees on the west bank of the quarry. The coroner said he was informed that Mr. Drew had liked to stroll in the quarry area. At the time he was reported missing Mr. Drew had announced he was going to visit friends in Vickery. Mr. Drew's hat was found near his body and was not the one found near the quarry Monday and which some relatives believed belonged to Mr. Drew. A lifelong resident of this community, Mr. Drew was born in Green Springs in 1861, a son of George and Ellen Moore Drew. His wife, the former Ellen Miller, died in 1935. Only survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Dodson, Fremont; Mrs. Walter Corser, Lansing, Mich., and Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, New Riegel. There are 25 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. One grandchild, Waldo Drew, drowned in the Sandusky River at the Mooney farm last summer. Funeral services were conducted this morning at the Weller-Wonderly funeral home, Rev. Lester Pfifer, of Grace Brethren Church officiating. Interment was in Parkhurst Cemetery.
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