Hugh Edward Meyer 1948-1976

MEYER, MIDDENDORF, DIETZENBACH, EINCK

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 11/13/2006 at 14:42:46

Source: Newspaper Clipping
Submitted By: Errin (Lee) Wilker, cousin of deceased

Rural Iowa Man Killed In Mishap On Family Farm

Hugh Edward Meyer, 28, was killed Saturday, Nov. 6, in a farm acci­dent at his family's farm. Meyer was operating a baler Saturday afternoon, baling cornstalks in a field on the farm in Union City Township, rural New Albin, when the accident occurred.

He was born July 2, 1948, in Caledonia to Elmer and Lois (Middendorf) Meyer. He was a 1970 civil engineering graduate of Iowa State University of Sci­ence and Technology, Ames.

After graduation he worked for Jacobson-Westergard Asso­ciation at Estherville, Iowa, until 1973, when he returned home to help run the farm when his father became ill.

Survivors are his parents; a brother, Irey of Eitzen, Minn.; four sisters, Mrs. James (Joye) Diepzenback of Cresco, Mrs. Donald (Gaye) Einck of Decor­ah, and Jean and Jill, both at home.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in St. John's United Church of Christ, Wheatland, ru­ral New Albin. Rev. James Par­ker will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Pot­ter-Haugen Funeral Home, Cale­donia, Minn., Monday afternoon and evening, and at the church Tuesday from 1 p.m. until the services.