Dr. T. C. Griest,
Put-in-Bay physician (33) & Miss Sylvia Schulz (25). Click on
images below for the article(s). And see the obituary here.
Wednesday,
Feb. 14, 1940
Dr. George J. Edam,
Put-in-Bay physician (33), wife Loretta E., (28), children George Jr.
(age ?) & Barbara (2). Click on images below for the article(s).
Also
click here for more images that we put on the site earlier. And see the obituary here.
Sunday,
Feb. 20, 1955
Charles Schneider (47) &
John Klacik (27) of Middle Bass. Charles was the father of Charles
(Sonny) Schneider, Jr., who lived on Middle Bass and operated the
Sonny-S ferry. Click on images below for the article(s), or
here for a printable
version. Also
click here
for more family history.
Saturday, Feb. 8,
1986
Jeff Verhoff (17) of Middle Bass, son of Penny and Karl Schmidlin of
Middle Bass.
See our article.
Tuesday, Feb. 15,
1994
Mike Massie - Popular Put-in-Bay ice fishing guide. See the story on two pages and the obituary on a third page
here.
Tuesday,
Feb. 6, 2001
Howard Taylor (73) and Robert Shammo (65) both of Shreve, Ohio, and
Stanley Puster (60) of Lakeville, Ohio. Driving an ATV on their way to
ice fishing, they lost
their way in a whiteout off the west shore of Middle Bass.
See article.
Note that the 1940, 1955 and 1986 fatalities occurred within a few
hundred feet of each other, and only a few hundred feet off the
southwestern tip of Middle Bass Island. The tip, called called Colby's
Point, is where the currents are always the fastest in the channel between
South Bass and Middle Bass islands. So the thinnest ice is always there.
