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Coshocton Tribune (Coshocton, Ohio) > 1940 > August > 1 [Thursday]
Headline: WARSAW
Sub-Headline: Birth Notes
Text: A son was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Klinger.Coshocton Tribune (Coshocton, Ohio) > 1969 > June > 17 [Tuesday]

Headline: 'Pete' Klinger Dies Monday Night
Text: Ernest Eugene (Pete) Klinger lost his long struggle for life last night. Klinger, who would have been 29 next month, died at Cleveland Clinic for illness and complications he sustained after an automobile accident almost four years ago. He and his wife had been residing at 234 West St., Roscoe, for the past several months. A former Coshocton Memorial Hospital laboratory technician, he was critically injured in December, 1965, when he stopped to help a motorist with car trouble on old Route 36. Another car crashed into Klinger breaking both legs, several ribs and fracturing his skull. After nine operations and two years in various hospitals Klinger's kidneys collapsed and he had to be kept alive on a $400-per-week kidney machine. Last July his mother, Mrs. Gene Klinger, 630 John St., donated a kidney for a transplant for her son, allowing him to discontinue using the machine, although he was to remain in Cleveland Clinic for several months afterward. To help with the enormous hospital bills, Dr. Donald Owens, a Coshocton optometrist, who had been Klinger's troop leader in Boy Scouts, began a fund-raising drive. Over $5,000 was collected from individual donations as well as a polo match, and aucton and various fund-raising projects by Vacation Bible Schools, women's clubs and community service organizations. At the end of the summer Klinger, with the help of crutches, was able to attend the 10-year reunion of his 1958 Coshocton High School graduating class, where he was the honored guest. Funeral arrangements, in charge of Dawson Funeral Home, are incomplete.