- Man About 65 Killed by Auto
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Nov. 10. (AP)?A man walking across the highway at State Line Village was struck and killed by a car last night. He carried no identification.
The man, apparently a transient, was about 65 years old. Sheriff John Rasor said this morning that officers still don't know who he was. His office and state police are investigating.
He said the man may have been hit by two cars. He said Judith Ann Baker, 18, Spokane bookkeeper, was the driver of one car that passed over his body but that there were indications the man had been struck and knocked down seconds before by another.
?From the Spokane Daily Chronicle; Monday, November 10, 1958
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GRAVE TO BE NAMELESS
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Nov. 22.?The elderly man who met his death in a car-pedestrian accident two weeks ago and is still unidentified will be buried in a nameless grave here Monday.
Arrangements are being made by the county commissioners and the Yates-Morse Funeral Home. A complete Christian service will be held at 10:30 a.m. to be followed by burial at Restlawn Memorial Park.
Since the accident at the State Line Village on Highway 10, dozens of persons have viewed the body, several coming from Spokane, Wallace, Kellogg, Hayden Lake and the Post Falls area, but no one recognized the man.
?From The Spokesman-Review; Sunday, November 23, 1958
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Sisters Identify Father as Victim of Automobile
Two Spokane Valley women yesterday identified a man struck and killed by a car November 9 near the Washington-Idaho line as their father, Alfred B. Hausken, 66, W1304 Water, a retired body and fender man.
The daughters, Mrs. Lewis G. Fristo, N4407 McDonald, and Mrs. William Emmerson, Dishman, said they identified their father from pictures of his face and hands taken before he was buried November 24 in Coeur d'Alene.
"He wore a ring with skull and crossbones," Mrs. Emmerson said. "We're sure of the identification."
Mr. Hausken and the late Mrs. Hausken, who died about 12 years ago, moved to Spokane from Minnesota in 1919, Mrs. Fristo said.
Both daughters said, "Daddy stayed by himself a lot and sometimes we didn't see him for three or six months."
Mrs. Emmerson said her father had been at her home a couple of days at the beginning of last month.
"He left my home November 3," she said. "It's strange, though, when I saw the story in the Chronicle Monday, November 10, about a man about Father's age being killed, I was uneasy.
"My husband told me not to worry, and I tried not to, but I kept the clipping of the story.
"Actually there was no reason to presume it was my father, except he sometimes did take the bus and go to the state line."
Mrs. Emmerson said when she learned Sunday the kind of ring the man wore she became very uneasy and sent her husband to see if her father was all right.
"A neighbor said he hadn't been there for two weeks," Mrs. Emmerson said.
She said when she learned that, she got in touch with Sheriff John Rasor of Coeur d'Alene and she and her sister went there and identified their father's pictures.
Besides his daughters, Mr. Hausken is survived by two grandsons, two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter, all of Spokane, and a sister in Yakima.
Mrs. Emmerson said she and her sister would return to Coeur d'Alene today and visit their father's grave. She added they did not plan to move the body here.
?From the Spokane Daily Chronicle; Tuesday, December 2, 1958
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