Beachy, Eli (1926-1953)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1953 Jul 2 p. 3

Birth date: 1926

text of obituary:

Two Kansas Farmers Killed in Collision

ELI BEACHY, HUTCHINSON ONE OF VICTIMS AS TRUCKS COLLIDE

Hutchinson, Kans. — A heavily loaded wheat truck and a pick-up truck collided at a country intersection seven miles southwest of here Thursday morning, June 25, killing the two drivers, Eli Beachy, 27, of Route 2 Hutchinson and Charles W. Teeter, 28, of Arlington.

Funeral services for Mr. Beachy were held Saturday at the Mennonite Mission church here, of which he was a member, and at the Yoder Mennonite church. Rev. Sanford King, his pastor, officiated.

Riding in the truck with Mr. Teeter were his three year old daughter, Deborah, who suffered numerous facial cuts, and four year old son, Barry, who was uninjured.

Mr. and Mrs. William Bontrager, who employed Beachy at their farm, received first word of the tragedy when little Barry Teeter walked one-half mile to the Bontrager farmhouse and reported that his daddy had been killed in a wreck. They accompanied him to the scene of the wreck and found the bodies of the two men in a ditch with the spilled wheat. They took Barry to his grandmother's, and a passing motorist took the little girl to the hospital.

Mr. Beachy, who had been married only two months, is survived by his wife Emma; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Beachy, four sisters and five brothers, all of Route 1, Hutchinson.