Toews, Stewart Keith (1951-1955)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Aug 11 p. 1

Birth date: 1951

text of obituary:

FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED AS HE FALLS UNDER ROLLING TRACTOR

Whitewater, Kansas. — Funeral services were held at the Emmanuel [sic Emmaus] Mennonite church Saturday afternoon, Aug. 6, for the four-year-old Stewart K. Toevs [sic Toews], son of Mr. and Mrs. Novalis Toves [sic Toews], who was killed when he fell under his father’s tractor.

The tractor had been parked in the farmyard and Steward [sic Stewart] apparently released the brake. When the machine began to roll the lad either jumped or fell and was crushed underneath the rear wheel. He lived only a few minutes after the accident.

Surviving are the grief-stricken parents, one sister, Marna Jane, the paternal grandmother, Mrs. N. J. Toevs [sic Toews], Mountain Lake, Minn., and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Thierstein, Whitewater.

The funeral services were in charge of Rev. L. R. Amstutz, pastor of the Emmaus church.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1955 Aug 18 p. 8