DRESSEL, Troy Robert 1971-1997
DRESSEL, HUTCHINSON, MARTINEZ, KINNETZ, ADAMS
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 8/26/2013 at 03:07:41
[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Tuesday, December 9, 1997]
EVANSDALE — Troy R. Dressel, 26, of 332 Lawrence Ave., died Saturday, Dec. 6, near Fort Madison in a hunting accident.
He was born March 29,1971, in Waterloo, son of Larry J. and Rosemary L. Hutchinson Dressel. A 1989 East High School graduate, Mr. Dressel had been employed by Eagle Tanning Co. for three years.
Survived by his parents of Evansdale; a daughter, Cheyenne Martinez of Evansdale; a brother, Larry of Evansdale; two sisters, Tammy Kinnetz of Waterloo and Lisa Adams of Chippewa Falls, Wis.; maternal grandparents, Charles and Dorothy Hutchinson of Jim Falls, Wis.; and a special friend, Heidi Martinez of Evansdale.
Preceded in death by paternal grandparents, Joseph and Dorothy Dressel; and maternal grandmother, Ruby Hutchinson.
Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Life Christian Center, with burial in Fairview Cemetery, both in Waterloo. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service/South Street, Waterloo, and for an hour before services at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
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[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, December 8, 1997]
Hunting accidents this weekend claimed the life of an Evansdale man near Shimek Forest in southeast Iowa and injured a rural Cresco man near Lime Springs.
Troy Robert Dressel, 26, of 332 Lawrence Ave., died in the emergency room of Fort Madison Community Hospital Saturday of a 12-gauge shotgun wound to the upper chest.
"Indications remain that this case is an accidental gunshot wound with Mr. Dressel's own weapon," said Lee County Sheriff Dave Ireland. Preliminary results of an autopsy conducted Saturday are expected later this week.
Dressel, an Eagle Tanning employee for three years, went deer hunting Saturday with friends, according to his father, Larry Dressel of Evansdale.
"They're guys he ran around with, most of them all his life," said Dressel.
Sometime Saturday morning Troy Dressel strayed from the rest of his group, Ireland said. Dressel drove his pickup truck two to three miles from the hunting site before losing control, running off the road and driving through a ditch and a farm.
Lee County deputies were called to the scene of the accident, about six miles west of Donnellson, about 10:35 a.m. They found Dressel next to the car, and he was transported to the hospital.
Ireland said it was not known what caused Dressel to lose control of the truck, but it was not the gunshot. Dressel, who was alone at the time of the accident, suffered the wound after the truck came to a stop.
Why Dressel left his friends, where he was going and what caused the gun to discharge remain unknown, Ireland said.
"That is still one of the pieces of the puzzle we're trying to form," he said. The shooting didn't appear to be a suicide, he added.
The Lee County Sheriff's Department and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are still investigating the incident.
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