Death
On July 2, 1932, Fred was driving his Duesenberg on a wet Lincoln Highway on Ligonier Mountain near Jennerstown, Pennsylvania when his automobile overturned, apparently at high speed. Mr. Duesenberg was expected to fully recover from the spinal injury and dislocation of the shoulder when pleural pneumonia developed. An oxygen tank brought from Pittsburgh was employed and he again was thought out of danger. On July 25, he suffered a relapse and died. His wife and son were with him at the end.
Frederick Samuel Duesenberg is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
He was a member of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and a member and councilor of the Society of Automotive Engineers, on several of whose committees he served.
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You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.”
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—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
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