Marinette Eagle-Star, Monday, August 15, 1927

“ISAAC GEORGE, WILL TIDEMAN FATALLY HURT

MRS. FRANK STOPPENBACH BADLY INJURED WHEN CAR STRIKES PILE OF PULPWOOD.

Apparently attempting to avoid what appeared to be an impending crash between two automobiles approaching side by side on the River road, just north of the Park Mills plant of M. and M. Paper company, Isaac Stephenson George, 28, swerved his Chrysler roadster too far to the right where it struck the railroad tracks, causing him to lose control of the car and costing the life of himself, one of his companions, William J. Tideman, 39, and seriously injuring the other occupant, Mrs. Frank Stoppenbach, 34, when it struck a log pile.  

Party at Goodman’s  

About ten couples had met at the R. B. Goodman residence on South Raymond street, where the men in the party were to pick their baskets and with them their companions for the picnic.  Their choices made, the guests got into automobiles and started for the picnic site.  

Mr. George was accompanied in his car by Mrs. Stoppenbach, his second cousin, and Mr. Tideman, with Mrs. Stoppenbach sitting between the two men.  The ill-fated machine was the third to leave the Goodman residence.  

Though no one actually saw the accident, it is believed that the two approaching cars, one attempting to pass the other, caused Mr. George to turn his car to the right side of the road in an effort to prevent what appeared to be an inevitable collision.  The car wheels are thought to have struck the spur railroad tracks paralleling the road at this point, causing Mr. George to lose control.  Before he could right the machine, the car had crashed into the pile of pulpwood, also paralleling the road and the railroad track, skidded against several projecting logs, and then stopped as the front end struck one of the huge timbers.  

The men were dead when aid reached them immediately, death being instantaneous.  Mrs. Stoppenbach was knocked unconscious by the impact.  With some effort the trio were taken out of the wrecked automobile and rushed to the M. and M. hospital, where physicians declared that the men were dead and after an examination that Mrs. Stoppenbach was suffering from a double fracture of the pelvis, a comminuted fracture of the right thigh, fracture of the left shoulder, and numerous lacerations and bruises about the body.  Her condition was said to be serious, but not critical.  She was taken to St. Luke’s hospital, Chicago, last night on the train, accompanied by Dr. C. H. Boren and a trained nurse.  

The Fatal Injuries.  

Mr. George was found to have suffered a skull fracture when part of the broken steering wheel pierced the right side of his head.  Mr. Tideman’s chest was crushed and a broken windshield post had impaled him under the chin.  Both bodies were taken to the McLain Funeral Home.  

Mr. George, who was a grandson and one of the heirs of the late former Senator Isaac Stephenson, lived with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brown, his uncle and aunt, 1931 Riverside avenue.  He had just recently completed his second trip around the world and it was a queer quirk of fate that death should come to him on his way to a basket picnic in Marinette.  

He had returned last week from a fishing trip into Minnesota and Canada with United States Senator Dan Steck, of Iowa, and Robertson Thomas, western manager for the Western Union Telegraph company.  He was a member of the Elks club and also of the Teddy Budlong Post of the American Legion.  

Mr. George is survived by his father, William George of Cleveland, Ohio, and one brother, Howard George, vice president of the Northland Motors, Menominee.  He is a nephew of Mrs. Joshua Hodgins, Marinette, former president of the Wisconsin Federation of Woman’s Clubs; Nelson Ludington, Chicago, who is at the head of a large wholesale lumber company; H. J. Brown, Marinette, president of the Stephenson National bank, and Ralph Skidmore, secretary-treasurer of the Skidmore-Riehle Land company, Marinette.  

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the H. J. Brown residence on Riverside avenue with the Rev. Potter Sabin of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, officiating.  Interment in the Stephenson plat in Forest Home cemetery, Marinette.  

Mr. Tideman, who was general manager of the Signal Electric company of Menominee, lived at 615 Marinette avenue, Marinette.  He graduated from the University of Michigan engineering course in…”