Individual Details

Don Lytle, 29, died Sunday afternoon in a Wichita, Kansas hospital of head and internal injuries suffered one week earlier in a stock car race. Lytle, a veteran race driver who recently moved to Culbertson, was involved in a four-car crash in the National Jalopy Races in Hutchinson, Kansas. His seat belt broke in the collision.
He was born at McCook on June 12, 1932 and was employed as a plasterer at the time of his death.
Survivors are his wife, Joan; three sons, aged 8 and 2 years and 7 months; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Lytle of McCook; and two brothers, Glen and Jack.
Funeral services were held this (Thursday) morning at Memorial Methodist church in McCook, with the Rev. Adrian Edgar officiating. Burial was made in Memorial Park cemetery.
Source: The Culbertson Progress, August 10, 1961

Birth	12 Jun 1932	McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska
Census (family)-shared	10 Apr 1950	(James Oral Lytle and Helen Marilla Bolles) McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska
Marriage	16 Mar 1952	Culbertson, Hitchcock County, Nebraska - Joan Marie Baumfalk
Death	6 Aug 1961	Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Burial		Memorial Park Cemetery, McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska

Spouse	Joan Marie Baumfalk (1934 - 2022)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	James Oral Lytle (1899 - 1963)
Mother	Helen Marilla Bolles (1910 - 1992)
Sibling	Glen Warren "Bud" Lytle (1933 - 2009)
Sibling	Living

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