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Yoder, Peter Elmer (1939-1957)
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+ | <center><h3>TRACTOR PLUNGES INTO RAVINE, FATALLY INJURING FARM YOUTH</h3></center> |
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+ | Belleville, Pa. — Numerous fractures suffered in a tractor accident five days earlier resulted in the death of Peter Elmer Yoder, 18-year-old son of Elmer E. Yoders, on May 5 in the Huntingdon hospital. |
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+ | Funeral services were held May 8 at the Maple Grove Mennonite Church here, Jacob Weirich, Aaron Mast and Louis Peachey officiated. |
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+ | The youth was plowing on a hilltop for his brother Willard and apparently drove too close to a steep incline, the tractor rolling down and crashing into a deep ravine. |
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Revision as of 15:00, 5 April 2017
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 May 23 p. 1
Birth date: 1938
text of obituary:
TRACTOR PLUNGES INTO RAVINE, FATALLY INJURING FARM YOUTH
Belleville, Pa. — Numerous fractures suffered in a tractor accident five days earlier resulted in the death of Peter Elmer Yoder, 18-year-old son of Elmer E. Yoders, on May 5 in the Huntingdon hospital.
Funeral services were held May 8 at the Maple Grove Mennonite Church here, Jacob Weirich, Aaron Mast and Louis Peachey officiated.
The youth was plowing on a hilltop for his brother Willard and apparently drove too close to a steep incline, the tractor rolling down and crashing into a deep ravine.