In late May 1927 young Albert was one of 32 boys who took swimming lessons at a local YMCA.
Six years later on May 29, 1933 he is out with a group of boys playing at what was called May's Lake, just a short distance from Parkrose Highschool where he was a Junior. The boys were having fun playing with a raft in the water. Who knows, maybe they had read about the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and wanted to build a raft? During playing with the raft they thought it would be fun to try and overturn it. In their attempt to overturn the raft Albert got hit in the head by a piece of wood that knocked him out. He sank in to deep water and drowned. He left his parents Otto and Emma and a younger brother Richard. Albert is our latest addition to the Garden of Untimely Demise.
