Hi-way Death In City Limits
August 18, 1949, Manning Monitor
Gust Borkowski Fatally Injured Early Sunday A.M.

Funeral services for Gustav Borkowski, 63, killed in a pedestrian-car accident near the Highway Cafe here Sunday morning August 14, 1949, were conducted at the Ohde Funeral home at 2 p.m. Tuesday August 16, 1949. Burial was in Lincoln Township Cemetery.

The car was driven by John Kisgen of Manning, officers said. Mr. Borkowski was walking east along Highway 141. The Kisgen vehicle also was eastbound.

A coroner's jury, called by Dr. J. Lawrence Cochran ruled the death accidental Members of the jury were Emil Kuhl, Manning, and C.E. McLaughlin and C.O. Murphy, both of Carroll.

The death was the fifth Carroll County traffic fatality this year, and the first in the city limits in four years.

Mr. Borkowski was born December 29, 1885, in Germany. He came to the United States in 1890. He had been a farmer all his life and was employed on the Gerhardt Lamp place southeast of Manning.

Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. William Schultz, Manning; Mrs. Adolph Elias Wessington Springs, South Dakota; and Mrs. Carl Rott, Winona, Minnesota. He was not married.