Robert Earl Mohler, Jr. 20-year-old Delphi youth died instantly in a crash at 11:37 Friday night when his car was demolished after striking a bridge south of Delphi.  It took almost two hours for officers to right the car in order to free the trapped youth.
  Mohler returning to Delphi, was headed in a northerly direction on the highway.  Officers theorize that he may have dozed temporarily and that his car careened to the opposite side of the highway, left the road behind a guard rail, the front wheels hitting the cement bridge abutment.  The car then flipped over, spun through the air, and landed on its top on the opposite bank of the creek.  A witness had seen the car coming towards him, watched in the rear view mirror and saw the lights disappear.  He went back to investigate and could find no wreckage but came into town where he obtained help and returned to the scene and found the wreckage.  Officers were then notified.
  Mohler died instantly of a fractured skull and broken neck.
  Born in Tippecanoe county March 5, 1943, he was the son of Robert N. and Dorothy Sterrett Mohler.  His father was killed in World War II.  The youth was a 1961 graduate of Delphi high school and had been a star football player during his high school career.  He had attended Parks College in St. Louis and Allied Institute in Chicago.  Recently he had been employed at the RBM in Logansport.
  Surviving with his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, is his step-father Woodrow Wilson; two step-sisters, Marlene Bunnell of Boswell and LouAnn Wilson at home; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Marie Sterrett of Camden and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mohler of route 3, Delphi.
  Funeral rites were conducted Monday from the Cornell funeral home with Rev. James Wm. Rankin officiating.  Burial was in Pretty Prairie cemetery.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Citizen, Thursday, May 16, 1963