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Klippenstein, Harvey Allen (1924-1945)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1945 Feb 8 p. 1

Birth date: 1925

text of obituary:

High Line Accident Fatal to Young Farm Worker, Hampton, Neb.

HARVEY KLIPPENSTEIN LOSES LIFE WHILE WORKING WITH DRILLING MACHINE

Henderson, Nebr. — Funeral services were held at the Bethesda Mennonite church here Monday afternoon, Jan. 29, for Harvey Klippenstein, 20, who was fatally injured when the derrick of a drilling machine he was operating came in contact with a high tension power line three miles south of Hampton. The accident happened Friday, Jan. 28, at the Gus Troester farm where the youth was working.

He was rushed to the Aurora hospital immediately after the accident, but doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. He had lived in the Henderson community all his life.

Although the weather was cold, between 1,000 and 1,200 persons attended the funeral services. Rev. H. B. Kliewer of the M. B. church and Rev. A. W. Friesen spoke words of comfort and the men's choir sang several selections. Interment was in the Bethesda cemetery northwest of town.

Besides his grief-stricken parents, Mr. an Mrs. George Klippenstein, he is survived by four brothers, Elmer, Newton, Kans.; Donald, Ervin and LeRoy at home; and one sister, Mrs. Allen Friesen, also of this community.

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