1986-10-07
Collection: 1986
Title
1986-10-07
Subject
Hoefgen, Jacqueline
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Source
Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
1986-10-07
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1986-10-07,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 26, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/416.
Text
Tuesday, October 7, 1986
By MARY L. HODSON Gazette Area Editor
An Augusta High School varsity cheerleader is dead and two other teenagers were clinging to life today after two vehicles collided northeast of Augusta yesterday.
Fifteen-year-old Jacqueline Hoefgen was dead at the scene, according to Butler County sheriff Dave Williams.
Two other teenagers, Kristina Payne of Augusta and Bradley Link of El Dorado, both 16, were listed in critical condition this morning at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, according to a Wesley spokeswoman.
Both were patients in surgical intensive care today.
Hoefgen and Payne were passengers in a small car driven by 16-year-old Paige Wilson of Augusta, according to authorities. Payne and Wilson are also members of the varsity cheerleading squad at the high school here.
The fatal accident had many fellow students here and in Leon in a state of shock today.
The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. 1 1/2 miles northeast of Augusta on a county road.
The sheriff said the southbound car was struck broadside at an unmarked intersection about a mile east of Ohio Street by a van driven by Dwane P. Spies, 15, of Leon. Link and Mike Schill, 17, of Leon, were passengers in Spies’ east-bound vehicle.
Link was pinned under the van and Payne was thrown between 30 to 40 feet from the car, according to the sheriff.
Payne was taken from the scene by a Life Watch helicopter.
Augusta Medical Complex director of nursing Pat Pierce said Link was stabilized at AMCI before he was transported by a Life Watch helicopter to Wesley.
Pierce said Spies and Schill were treated at AMCI and released. Wilson was admitted for observation.
The three boys are students at Bluestem High School in Leon. Rosa Lee Cox, BHS secretary, said the boys were visiting Matt Craft of Augusta. Craft is also a student at Bluestem.
The boys were coming back to Leon when the accident occurred, according to Cox.
Linn ana Spies are football players.
They were scheduled to leave at 5 p.m. on the school bus for a football game at West Elk in Howard. Originally that game was scheduled for last Friday but rains and poor field conditions forced school officials to schedule the game for Monday, according to Cox.
Armand Hillier, AHS assistant principal, said he thought the three cheerleaders had gone to see a friend and were returning to Augusta to attend the Augusta Invitational Cross Country meet Hillier reports parents of some students called today to say their children would not be in school because of the accident Other AHS students have gone home, he said.
"They are having a hard time dealing with this,” Hillier said. “Some are individually seeing the counselor and others are talking with teachers.”
BHS counselor Brad Young said students and the town have been deeply affected by this and other accidents this summer.
“One girl who should have been a junior was seriously hurt when she was
riding a moped this summer. She still has not fully recovered. We had a young man who graduated a couple of years ago who was killed when a train struck his car.
Then we had that accident a couple of weeks ago when Loren Bevan was killed. One of the girls in that accident was a former BHS student. It all has a cumulative effect on the kids. You hope it's going to end. I just hope it stops.”
JACQUELINE HOEFGEN
...funeral on Thursday
A Funeral Mass
The funeral mass for Hoefgen will be at 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the Augusta High School auditorium. Father Thomas Stroot of St. James Catholic Church will officiate and burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery.
The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. tomorrow at St. James Church.
The AHS sophomore was born May 27, 1971 in Wichita to John and Donna DeFore Hoefgen. She was a member of St. James Catholic Church.
In addition to her parents, she leaves a brother, Nick and a sister, Jenny of the home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoefgen and Myrtle DeFore, and great-grandmother, Anna DeWeese, all of Augusta
A sister, Barbara Ann, preceded her in death in 1967.
A memorial to Cheerleader Scholarship Fund for Further Education has been established with the Citadel Bank of Augusta.
Original Format
Newspaper clipping
Title
1986-10-07
Subject
Hoefgen, Jacqueline
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Source
Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
1986-10-07
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1986-10-07,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 26, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/416.Text
Tuesday, October 7, 1986
By MARY L. HODSON Gazette Area Editor
An Augusta High School varsity cheerleader is dead and two other teenagers were clinging to life today after two vehicles collided northeast of Augusta yesterday.
Fifteen-year-old Jacqueline Hoefgen was dead at the scene, according to Butler County sheriff Dave Williams.
Two other teenagers, Kristina Payne of Augusta and Bradley Link of El Dorado, both 16, were listed in critical condition this morning at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, according to a Wesley spokeswoman.
Both were patients in surgical intensive care today.
Hoefgen and Payne were passengers in a small car driven by 16-year-old Paige Wilson of Augusta, according to authorities. Payne and Wilson are also members of the varsity cheerleading squad at the high school here.
The fatal accident had many fellow students here and in Leon in a state of shock today.
The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. 1 1/2 miles northeast of Augusta on a county road.
The sheriff said the southbound car was struck broadside at an unmarked intersection about a mile east of Ohio Street by a van driven by Dwane P. Spies, 15, of Leon. Link and Mike Schill, 17, of Leon, were passengers in Spies’ east-bound vehicle.
Link was pinned under the van and Payne was thrown between 30 to 40 feet from the car, according to the sheriff.
Payne was taken from the scene by a Life Watch helicopter.
Augusta Medical Complex director of nursing Pat Pierce said Link was stabilized at AMCI before he was transported by a Life Watch helicopter to Wesley.
Pierce said Spies and Schill were treated at AMCI and released. Wilson was admitted for observation.
The three boys are students at Bluestem High School in Leon. Rosa Lee Cox, BHS secretary, said the boys were visiting Matt Craft of Augusta. Craft is also a student at Bluestem.
The boys were coming back to Leon when the accident occurred, according to Cox.
Linn ana Spies are football players.
They were scheduled to leave at 5 p.m. on the school bus for a football game at West Elk in Howard. Originally that game was scheduled for last Friday but rains and poor field conditions forced school officials to schedule the game for Monday, according to Cox.
Armand Hillier, AHS assistant principal, said he thought the three cheerleaders had gone to see a friend and were returning to Augusta to attend the Augusta Invitational Cross Country meet Hillier reports parents of some students called today to say their children would not be in school because of the accident Other AHS students have gone home, he said.
"They are having a hard time dealing with this,” Hillier said. “Some are individually seeing the counselor and others are talking with teachers.”
BHS counselor Brad Young said students and the town have been deeply affected by this and other accidents this summer.
“One girl who should have been a junior was seriously hurt when she was
riding a moped this summer. She still has not fully recovered. We had a young man who graduated a couple of years ago who was killed when a train struck his car.
Then we had that accident a couple of weeks ago when Loren Bevan was killed. One of the girls in that accident was a former BHS student. It all has a cumulative effect on the kids. You hope it's going to end. I just hope it stops.”
JACQUELINE HOEFGEN
...funeral on Thursday
A Funeral Mass
The funeral mass for Hoefgen will be at 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the Augusta High School auditorium. Father Thomas Stroot of St. James Catholic Church will officiate and burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery.
The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. tomorrow at St. James Church.
The AHS sophomore was born May 27, 1971 in Wichita to John and Donna DeFore Hoefgen. She was a member of St. James Catholic Church.
In addition to her parents, she leaves a brother, Nick and a sister, Jenny of the home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoefgen and Myrtle DeFore, and great-grandmother, Anna DeWeese, all of Augusta
A sister, Barbara Ann, preceded her in death in 1967.
A memorial to Cheerleader Scholarship Fund for Further Education has been established with the Citadel Bank of Augusta.
Original Format
Newspaper clipping