Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 2, 1956
Caption:
GRIM SEARCH AT PORTAGE LAKE: Two sheriff's deputies work from a boat with grappling hooks in search of the body of a 13-year-old Dexter area boy who drowned yesterday afternoon while ice skating at Portage Lake. The body of the victim, Gerald P. Gainsley, jr., was recovered by the deputies around 5 p.m. The deputies are Arthur Devoe (seated) and Nolan Lee. Two other Dexter boys were rescued by Robert Bolton of Portage Lake. They were David Kolander, 13, and Don (Toby) Roberts, 12.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 15, 1953
Caption:
Frank K. Kornexl, jr., (left) accepts a wrist watch from Mayor William E. Brown, jr., in commemoration of Kornexl's rescue of a nine-year-old boy from the Huron River on April 9. The watch is inscribed to "Ann Arbor's hero." Kornexl, 16, pulled Joel Bank from the river after the boy fell from the Foster bridge.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 9, 1983
Caption:
Recovered Body - Ann Arbor firefighters and police officers pull the body of a man believed to be in his mid 20s from the Huron River near the Amtrak station on Depot Street Thursday afternoon. A citizen phoned Ann Arbor police after spotting the body about 1 p.m. Police reported there was no evidence of foul play. They said they are investigating the possibility that the victim matches the description of a person reported missing earlier in the day.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 9, 1972
Caption:
Grim Search - Sheriff's Lt. David B. Severance (behind wheel), guides a motorboat along Second Sister Lake off S. Wagner Rd. in Scio Township this morning, moments before the body of John Lee Carlton, 22, of 735 N. Maple Rd. was found. A sheriff's Marine Division officer is seated near Severance, holding a line tied to Sheriff's Department skindivers who recovered the body. Carlton went down in 30 feet of water yesterday afternoon while swimming with two teen-age companions, Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey said. Divers searched until darkness yesterday for the body and resumed the hunt on the lake this morning. (Ann Arbor News photo by Jack Stubbs)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 3, 1957
Caption:
Drowning Scene: Ann Arbor Patrolman Howard Zeck (center, right) and Assistant Fire Chief Paul Wenk (left) prepare to throw grappling hooks out into the water of the canal where Lawrence S. Parks, 8, drowned at dusk yesterday. Other rescue workers watch.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 31, 1947
Caption:
Drowning Victim's Body Recovered: Police and volunteers seek to dislodge the body of a drowned man discovered wedged in the gates of the Argo dam near N. Main St. Saturday afternoon. The body was identified as the that of John E. McCormick, 37, 525 Fifth St., missing since May 31, who is thought to have slipped off the cat-walk and fallen into the water as he walked across the dam.