Peter Martin Grischkowsky
The Ontario Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Thursday, August 27, 1953
Friday Rites Set For Grischkowsky
PAYETTE - Friday services at 2:30 in the afternoon will be held for Peter Martin Grischkowsky, 74, of Fruitland. Services will be conducted at the Emanuel Lutheran church in New Plymouth with the Rev. Theo Brackman officiating. Interment will be in Park View under the direction of Shaffer Chapel.
He was born in the Russian Crimea, March 10, 1879, and came to the United States and Fruitland in 1909. He was a member of the Lutheran church and had resided in the Fruitland area since he came to the states.
Survivors are his wife, Eva, Fruitland; one stepson, Vernon Wilson, Fruitland; two step-daughters, Mrs. Helen Stockton and Mrs. Florence Carpenter, both of New Plymouth and seven grandchildren.
Independent Enterprise (Thursday, August 27, 1953)
Highway Crash Fatally Injures Fruitland Man
Pete Grischkowsky Dies As Result Of Two Car Collision At Road Intersection
No inquest will be held to investigate the Monday afternoon highway collision which claimed the life of Peter M. Grischkowsky, Payette county's first traffic fatality of 1953, Gifford Shaffer, coroner, said today.
Grischkowsky, 74, died in the Ontario hospital yesterday morning from severe injuries suffered in the two car accident. He had been a long-time resident of Fruitland, moving into the district in 1909 from his native Russia.
The fatal collision ended a perfect highway string of 283 deathless days on county roads, Sheriff Ray Stephens pointed out. His office stated that the last fatality here was Daniel Schrock, Boise resident who was killed November 14.
Second Monday Accident
The fatal accident was the second collision within a five minute period Monday afternoon, according to E. C. Marty, sheriff's deputy. Grischkowsky's automobile was hit broadside by another vehicle driven by Burt Crowther, a Payette well driller, as the two vehicles entered the intersection of two county roads one mile south and a mile east of Fruitland, the officer's report stated. Both men were alone in their cars, Marty said.
Crowther estimated his speed at the time of the accident at 40 miles per hour. He had been driving south on Elmore avenue. Grischkowsky was driving east on an intersecting road. He was rushed to the Holy Rosary hospital with chest injuries. Crowther did not require hospitalization.
After investigating the circumstances of the accident, Coroner Shaffer decided against holding an official inquest. No charges have been placed by investigating officers.
Earlier Wreck Reported
Five minutes earlier, at 1:45 Monday afternoon, a truck driven by George Flack of New Plymouth, collided with a pickup driven by Earl Taylor of New Plymouth. Flack was driving west on a county road and Taylor's vehicle was moving south when they met at an intersection one mile southwest of New Plymouth.
After the collision, Flack's truck skidded 80 feet and flipped over.
Taylor and his wife, a passenger in his pickup, were taken to New Plymouth and received emergency treatment for rib injuries.
No citations were issued.
Survivors Named
The victim of the fatal accident, Peter Martin Grischkowsky, is survived by his widow, Eva of Fruitland; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Helen Stockton and Mrs. Florence Carpenter, both of New Plymouth; a stepson, Vernon Wilson of Fruitland; seven grandchildren, eight nieces and eleven nephews.
He was born March 10, 1879 in the Russian Crimea and had been a member of the Lutheran church.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Emmanuel Lutheran church in New Plymouth with the Rev. Theo Brackman officiating. Interment follows at the Park View cemetery in New Plymouth under the direction of the Shaffer Memory chapel.
