Grand
Rapids Couple Killed Near Grant
GRANT-A Grand Rapids couple,
Andrew A. Guikema, 67, and his wife, Marie, of 751 Prince St. SE, died
Wednesday morning (June 25, 1970) in a head-on collision of their car and a chemical tanker on
M37 two miles South of Bailey, Muskegon County sheriff's deputies reported.
Truck driver Kenneth Malmo, 46, of Gladwin, was taken to
Grant Community Hospital for X rays.
The couple's car northbound was spun into the ditch by the
impact. Each reportedly suffered skull fractures and multiple fractures and
body injuries. Police said the Guikema car apparently went out of control and
crossed the centerline of the rain-slick highway into the path of the
southbound truck.