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<font size="+2">'''Former Hillsboro Youth Killed in Accident on Farm at Slayter, Wyo.'''</font> | |||
<center><h3>WAS PULLING PIPE FROM A WATER WELL WHEN FATL ACCIDENT HAPPENED</h3></center> | |||
The Hillsboro Star of Oct. 2, gives the following report of the accident which resulted in the fatal injury of Norman Loewen, a youth well known in the Hillsboro community: | |||
Norman Loewen, aged 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Loewen, northwest of Peabody was accidently killed while working at a water well on a farm near Slayter, Wyonming, last Wednesday morning. | |||
Young Mr. Loewen has been in Slayter for the pat ten weeks working for Mr. Goertz, a brother of John t. Goertz of Hillsboro. He and two other men were working on a water well and were pulling the pipe in the well by means of a pipe over a barrel when the pipe flew up and caught him under the chin breaking his neck. Death was instantaneous. The accident happened about 9 o'clock in the morning. Norman had written his folks a few days before stating that he expected to discontinue his work and return home in a few days. | |||
The body was brought home for burial, arriving in Peabody Saturday. Funeral services were held in the Ebenfeld church southeast of Hillsboro Sunday afternoon and burial made in the nearby cemetery. | |||
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Revision as of 19:29, 3 October 2013
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1941 Oct 8 p. 1
Birth date: 1919
text of obituary:
Former Hillsboro Youth Killed in Accident on Farm at Slayter, Wyo.
WAS PULLING PIPE FROM A WATER WELL WHEN FATL ACCIDENT HAPPENED
The Hillsboro Star of Oct. 2, gives the following report of the accident which resulted in the fatal injury of Norman Loewen, a youth well known in the Hillsboro community:
Norman Loewen, aged 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Loewen, northwest of Peabody was accidently killed while working at a water well on a farm near Slayter, Wyonming, last Wednesday morning.
Young Mr. Loewen has been in Slayter for the pat ten weeks working for Mr. Goertz, a brother of John t. Goertz of Hillsboro. He and two other men were working on a water well and were pulling the pipe in the well by means of a pipe over a barrel when the pipe flew up and caught him under the chin breaking his neck. Death was instantaneous. The accident happened about 9 o'clock in the morning. Norman had written his folks a few days before stating that he expected to discontinue his work and return home in a few days.
The body was brought home for burial, arriving in Peabody Saturday. Funeral services were held in the Ebenfeld church southeast of Hillsboro Sunday afternoon and burial made in the nearby cemetery.