Marcelino Marc Montoya
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1 - March 19, 1953
Marc Montoya Killed In Accident
Four weeks to the day and the hour after 18-year old Feles Montoya, Korean War hero, was buried at military services, his older brother, Marcelino Montoya, will be accorded military honor when he is buried in Minturn beside the body of Feles next Sunday.
Marcelino Montoya, Navy chief a petty officer, was killed when his I car careened off highway 24, one | and a half mile north of Load-; ville Saturday evening. His body was found by his six-1 teen year old brother, Carl in a] snowbank Monday morning. The I wrecked car was found Saturday! evening, but officers assumed he] had found ride home. When he] failed to return to Minturn, a] search party was organized. The] area was combed Saturday night] and all day Sunday. The body] was discovered Monday morning] at 11, buried in a snow drift 310| feet from the point where his] car crashed off the road- I State Patrolman Tom McAUI-l iffe stated Mr. Montoya appar-J ently died instantly of a broken a neck and chest and head injuries.) According to McAuliffe, the the car careened down a grade at 100 miles an hour before it ran off the shoulder of the road, smashing into a borrow pit and tho young Navy man thrown 310 feet into the snowdrift. The car overturned three times into a rocky field. Mr Montoya has been in the Navy five years, and was called home from his post in the Philippines in February to attend the funeral of his brother, whose
death had been announced by the Defense Department only last January, after being listed missing in action since September, 1950. The funeral was held in Minium Feb- 22 by Baltic Mountain Post No 47 American Legion, land VFW Post 8309, Mintum, who will join in holding military • services for Marcelino, or ‘‘Peewee, as his former schoolmates knew him. The service will bo In the Mintum School gym at 2 o’clock with Rev George Gross of the Assembly of God Church officiating. -.He is survived by his mother, Dclphine Montoya; his step-fath-er, Claude Montoya; three brothers, Rudy, 21, who is with the army in Ft- Leonard Wood, Mo.; Carl. 16 and Mike, 10: and throe sisters' Helen. 18; Mrs. Loyla Montoya, and Mrs. Mare Leyba all of Mintum.
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