Crash Kills Hicksville Man, 24
BUTLER, Ind. - William Fry Arnold, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold, rt. 3, Hicksville, was fatally injured Monday about 10:35 p. m. when his car struck a utility pole, 6.4 miles south of here. Arnold was married and the father of one child.
Authorities said Arnold's 1954 Mercury two-door slid 157 feet along the Orange Road when he attempted to stop at state route 101, hit and broke the pole, and continued 211 feet into a field.
Other motorists found Arnold approximately 35 feet from the car. He was dead of a fractured skull when authorities arrived.
The DeKalb county sheriff and the Indiana State Police investigated. Arnold was reported to have been enroute to the home of a sister at Spencerville.
The body was removed to the Perkins and Reeb funeral home, Hicksville, where services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Paul Stuckey, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Burial will be in Scipio cemetery.
The body will be taken to the parents' home, southwest of Hicksville, at noon Wednesday.
A lifelong Hicksville area resident, he was born June 18, 1933. He had been employed as an iron construction worker.
Survivors are: his parents; his wife, the former Patricia Tustison; a daughter, Debra; a sister, Mrs. Patricia Akey, Spencerville; and a brother Archillous, Zanesville.
Arnold was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the ironworkers union.
BUTLER, Ind. - William Fry Arnold, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold, rt. 3, Hicksville, was fatally injured Monday about 10:35 p. m. when his car struck a utility pole, 6.4 miles south of here. Arnold was married and the father of one child.
Authorities said Arnold's 1954 Mercury two-door slid 157 feet along the Orange Road when he attempted to stop at state route 101, hit and broke the pole, and continued 211 feet into a field.
Other motorists found Arnold approximately 35 feet from the car. He was dead of a fractured skull when authorities arrived.
The DeKalb county sheriff and the Indiana State Police investigated. Arnold was reported to have been enroute to the home of a sister at Spencerville.
The body was removed to the Perkins and Reeb funeral home, Hicksville, where services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Paul Stuckey, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Burial will be in Scipio cemetery.
The body will be taken to the parents' home, southwest of Hicksville, at noon Wednesday.
A lifelong Hicksville area resident, he was born June 18, 1933. He had been employed as an iron construction worker.
Survivors are: his parents; his wife, the former Patricia Tustison; a daughter, Debra; a sister, Mrs. Patricia Akey, Spencerville; and a brother Archillous, Zanesville.
Arnold was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the ironworkers union.
Crash Kills Hicksville Man, 24
BUTLER, Ind. - William Fry Arnold, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold, rt. 3, Hicksville, was fatally injured Monday about 10:35 p. m. when his car struck a utility pole, 6.4 miles south of here. Arnold was married and the father of one child.
Authorities said Arnold's 1954 Mercury two-door slid 157 feet along the Orange Road when he attempted to stop at state route 101, hit and broke the pole, and continued 211 feet into a field.
Other motorists found Arnold approximately 35 feet from the car. He was dead of a fractured skull when authorities arrived.
The DeKalb county sheriff and the Indiana State Police investigated. Arnold was reported to have been enroute to the home of a sister at Spencerville.
The body was removed to the Perkins and Reeb funeral home, Hicksville, where services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Paul Stuckey, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Burial will be in Scipio cemetery.
The body will be taken to the parents' home, southwest of Hicksville, at noon Wednesday.
A lifelong Hicksville area resident, he was born June 18, 1933. He had been employed as an iron construction worker.
Survivors are: his parents; his wife, the former Patricia Tustison; a daughter, Debra; a sister, Mrs. Patricia Akey, Spencerville; and a brother Archillous, Zanesville.
Arnold was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the ironworkers union.
BUTLER, Ind. - William Fry Arnold, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold, rt. 3, Hicksville, was fatally injured Monday about 10:35 p. m. when his car struck a utility pole, 6.4 miles south of here. Arnold was married and the father of one child.
Authorities said Arnold's 1954 Mercury two-door slid 157 feet along the Orange Road when he attempted to stop at state route 101, hit and broke the pole, and continued 211 feet into a field.
Other motorists found Arnold approximately 35 feet from the car. He was dead of a fractured skull when authorities arrived.
The DeKalb county sheriff and the Indiana State Police investigated. Arnold was reported to have been enroute to the home of a sister at Spencerville.
The body was removed to the Perkins and Reeb funeral home, Hicksville, where services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Paul Stuckey, pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Burial will be in Scipio cemetery.
The body will be taken to the parents' home, southwest of Hicksville, at noon Wednesday.
A lifelong Hicksville area resident, he was born June 18, 1933. He had been employed as an iron construction worker.
Survivors are: his parents; his wife, the former Patricia Tustison; a daughter, Debra; a sister, Mrs. Patricia Akey, Spencerville; and a brother Archillous, Zanesville.
Arnold was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the ironworkers union.
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