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Bontrager, Harry Lee (1938-1962)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1962 Nov 29 p. 3
Birth date: 1938
text of obituary:
Young Man Killed Day Before Wedding
Goshen, Ind. — Wedding plans of a young Amish couple of the Middlebury community ended abruptly in a highway crash on US 20 west of LaGrange on Nov. 21, the day before the scheduled wedding.
A semi-tractor trailer crashed into the couple's buggy, fatally injuring Harry Lee Bontrager, 24. His fiance, 19-year-old Alice F. Labyrinth, was hospitalized but not believed seriously hurt.
Mr. Bontrager was a native of the Hutchinson, Kan. community and came to this area three years ago. He was employed at a Middlebury trailer factory. His parents, Samuel P. and Anna (Yoder) Bontrager, had come here from Hutchinson to attend the wedding. Also surviving are three brothers and two sisters, all at home, and two grandmothers, Mrs. Susie Yoder of Haven, Kan. and Mrs. Jacob P. Miller of Middlebury.