John A. Gouldman
June 10, 1934-March 3, 1957
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI) Monday, March 4, 1957, page 1, col. 8, microfilm Niles District Library
Father of 3 Killed in Oklahoma Accident
John Gouldman, 22, Dies as Car Is Hit by Train
Was Returning to Niles From California With Two Children, Sister
A Niles father of three was killed Sunday when his truck in which he was returning from California was struck by a train at Picher, Okla., according to word received by relatives.
John A. Gouldman, 22 of 1004 Sycamore Street, was killed when the pickup truck was struck by a train nears the Oklahoma-Kansas border. His daughter, Edythe Belle, 3, one of two children in the truck . . .[illegible] . . . Springs, Kan.,where she still is undergoing treatment for a fractured skull and concussion.
A son, John Jr., 1 ½ , also in the truck suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized. Gouldman's sister, Ruth Fay Gouldman, also . . [illegible] . . infant son, David, were riding in a trailer behind the truck and reportedly were not injured.
Relatives said Gouldman, his children and sister were returning from California where they had been staying since the first of the year. Gouldman's wife, who remained in Niles, left Sunday to care for her children at the Kansas town.
Born June 10, 1934 at Dexter, Mo., Gouldman moved to Niles in 1943 and had been employed in the New York Central Railroad yards here. Survivors beside his widow Mary Ellen, and three children are his father, Fred, of Niles; three sisters, Miss Gouldman and Mrs. Margery Jarman, both of Niles, and Mrs. Gene Jarman, Chicago and two brothers, James and Ray Gouldman, both of Niles.
Removal will be made to the Pifer Funeral Home. Arrangements are incomplete.
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI) Wednesday, March 6, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
FRIENDS MAY CALL
The body of John A. Gouldman, 22, of 1004 Sycamore Street, killed Sunday in a truck-train accident, was to arrive today at the Pifer Funeral Home where friends may call beginning this evening. Services will be held Thursday afternoon with A.M. Mellender of Jehovah Witnesses in South Bend, officiating.