SUFFOCATED WHEN GRAIN BIN COLLAPSES
Webster Allen Yoder, age 48 years, lost his life by suffocation when covered by grain following collapse of a gain bin at the Huntzinger Mill, Hegins, last Wednesday afternoon.
There were no witnesses to the accident, it was stated, and Yoder was pronounced dead by a Valley View physician who was summoned. He had been employed at the mill several years.
Yoder was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William.D. Yoder and was a native of Hegins.
Survivors are two brothers, Guy Yoder of Reading, and Ray Yoder, Harrisburrg; and five sisters, Mrs. Ina Holderman of Philadelphia; Mrs. A. Tennyson Miller, Pottsville; Miss Miley Yoder, Ethel Yoder and May Yoder of Hegins.
Services were held at Valley View Sunday afternoon. Rev. F. S. Blank, pastor of the Leck Kill Lutheran Church officiated and interment was made in the Union Cemetery.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death.
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