News Story:  Austin Sandusky Dies in Hunting Accident

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
April 2011

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The Bronte Enterprise, September 3, 1964 {Historical and Progress Edition}

SANDUSKY

               Austin Sandusky Dies in Hunting Accident


Austin Sandusky, long time Bronte farmer and stockman, died at 11:20 a.m., 
Wednesday, September 2, in the Bronte Hospital, as a result of injuries 
suffered Tuesday afternoon in a hunting accident.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at Bronte Church of Christ.  
Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Williams Funeral 
Home.
 
Mr. Sandusky and Delbert Ray Coalson, of Silver, were hunting on what is 
known as the old Rosser place, about four miles west of Bronte when the 
accident occurred.  Coalson related that a shot from the 12 gauge shotgun 
struck Sandusky after they stopped at their pickup.  Coalson said Mr. Sandusky 
was standing at the rear of the pickup, and he was not sure whether he dropped 
the gun or whether he had laid it down the pickup and it fell to the ground.

The injured man was able to walk on around to the front of the vehicle and 
climb in.  Coalson said Sandusky lost consciousness shortly after sitting down.  
Coalson drove him to Bronte Hospital.  Dr. Ray Boster was called in early 
Wednesday morning to confer with Dr. John R. Harris concerning Mr. Sandusky's 
condition.
 
Death was caused by extensive injuries to his chest and left arm.

Survivors include his wife, the former Ruth Hickman; one daughter Mrs. 
Louise Snyder of Dumas; two sons, Judge Sandusky of Hondo and Gerald Sandusky 
of Levelland.
 
Also five brothers, J. D., W. R. and Ed Sandusky, all of Merkel, Jess Sandusky 
of Bromide, Okla., four sisters, Mrs. L. W. Beaty and Mrs. A. M. Wynne, both of 
Bronte, Mrs. W. N. Watson of Duncan, Ariz. and Mrs. Ora Lee Hines of 
Coolidge, Ariz.
 
Mr. Sandusky was a member of Bronte Church of Christ, and was a long time elder 
of the church.  He was also active in soil and water conservation work in 
this county.

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