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Petersheim, Lydia (1951-1956)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 Nov 15 p. 1

Birth date: 1951

text of obituary:

UNUSUAL FARM MISHAP CLAIMS LIFE OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Lancaster, Pa. — Lydia Petersheim, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Petersheim of the Narvon community, was killed Oct. 31 when caught between a hundred-pound door and the side of the horse stable on her father's farm.

The child was standing in a passageway of the stable when a mule bumped the heavy door, causing it to roll shut and crushing her head against the barn wall.