Alarm was spread here Sunday morning by the family of Donald Vianceo, 34, of Delphi, when he failed to return home Saturday night.  Since it was his custom to notify his parents if her intended staying waway over night, Sheriff Sanford Allen was contacted Sunday morning by the distraught parents.  State Police were notified and members of the family instituted a search.
  Shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, John Green of Logansport and his nephew, Ralph, enroute to Frankfort stopped at the bridge over Rock Creek on State Highway 25, 2 miles east of Rockfield, and sought shelter from a sudden rainstorm.  They had just started underneath the bridge, when they glanced across the flood swollen stream and noticed the wrecked auto.  On second look they saw the body of Vianco.
  They notified Arthur Allman, member of the State Highway maintenance crew, who were near the spot repairing the road from the damage done in Saturday night's heavy rain.  Sheriff Allen was notified by a call from the Burge garage in Rockfield by a passing motorist.  Allen identified the body.
  Since Vianco was alone, details of the accident are meager.  It is theorized that he was enroute home, probably traveling at a high rate of speed, when his auto struck loose gravel washed onto the highway by the heavy rains.  State and local police believe that the car went out of control, swerved to the right, knocked over a guard post, and traveled approximately 35 feet to the rive embankment.  The car then careened over the embankment, across the flood swollen creek, to the opposite bank where it was almost demolished by the impact of the crash when it struck the bank.
  When found, Vianco, was slouched over in the seat opposite the driver with his feet still under the steering wheel.  It is believed that he was killed instantly of died seconds later.
  The youth was born here March 15, 1915, the son of William "Pete" and Mary (Becker) Vianco.  A graduate of St. Joseph's grammer school and the Delphi High School, Class of 1934, he was a veteran of the recent war.  He served four years, 29 months of which were overseas.  Before and after the war he was employed as a mechanic at the Clawson Chevrolet garage.
  He was a member of St. Joseph's church, Harry Bohannon Post of the American Legion and the Logansport Eagles Lodge.
  Surviving with his parents are four sisters, Alice Stevens of Lafayette, Mary Louise DeWitt of route 2, Brookston; Roseann of Indianapolis and Delorita at home: his paternal grandfather, Frank Vianco, Delphi.
  Funeral rites were conducted Wednesday morning from St. Joseph cemetery.
 
Obituary notice taken from The Delphi Citizen, Thursday, May 26, 1949