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Iowa crash claims the life of local hotelier Marty Roenigk; Elise Roenigk hospitalized

Friday, June 19, 2009
By Jerry Dupy
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Marty and Elise Roenigk Photo by Chip Ford
EUREKA SPRINGS -- Marty Roenigk, 68, co-owner of the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa and the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, was killed Thursday night in a two-vehicle accident in southeast Iowa near the community of Griswold. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Roenigk's wife, Elise, 68, was injured in the accident and is recovering from a severely broken arm in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., where she was air-lifted, according to a spokesman for the hotels.

Sgt. Patrick McGinn, of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office, reported that Elise Roenigk was the driver of the van, which collided with a pickup truck carrying two adults and two grandchildren from Sioux Falls, S.D. The adults, Robert Wolf, 72 and his granddaughter, Chelsea Nicholus, 16, were air-lifted to Creighton, while Wolf's wife, Betty, 71, and grandchild Kinze Nicholus, 12, were taken by ambulance to a Red Oak, Iowa hospital.

The accident occurred at 8:42 p.m., according to Sgt. McGinn, who said the preliminary investigation showed that the south-bound Roenigk van ran a stop sign at the intersection of a rural road and Iowa Hwy. 92, east of Griswold. The pickup was travelling east on Hwy. 92, according to McGinn's report.

It was reported locally that the Roenigks were on a trip to pick up an antique mechanical music machine for the couple's collection in the Gavioli Chapel in Eureka Springs.

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I am so srooy Elise I'll alway remember how great you both were to my son Patrick he love you both

now my Tom has Marty to talk too

-- Posted by margaretann on Sat, Jun 20, 2009, at 7:47 PM

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