I found this, in case you haven't seen it before:
Iowa Old Press
Progress Review
LaPort City, Black Hawk Co. Iowa
Thursday, March 1, 1928
Killed by Vicious Bull - Son-in-Law of Mrs. Mary Bedenbender Meets Tragic Death
Mrs. Mary Bedenbender, her son-in-law and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. D.G. Baish, of this place, and Mrs. C.W. Graham, of Van Horn, returned yesterday from Postville where they were called by the tragic death of John C. Hecker, a son-in-law of Mrs. Bedenbender. Mrs. Graham and her mother went on to the former's home in Van Horn.
Particulars of the way in which Mr. Hecker met his death will never be known as there was no witness. Sunday noon he had gone into a lot where a thoroughbred bull was confined and when Mrs. Hecker went out, about twenty minutes later, to call her husband to dinner she found him dead. She entered the lot and went to her husband but the animal showed no signs of molesting her. Judging from the bruises on the body the bull must have struck his victim in the stomach, causing such internal injuries that deat was instantaneous.
Mr. Hecker operated a garage, service station and implement business in Postville and he and his wife made their home on their farm near that city. They had a herd of high grade dairy cows and the bull that killed Mr. Hecker was awarded a premium at the Iowa State fair last fall. The animal had never shown any disposition to be ugly. mr. Hecker had driven home just before noon Sunday and went out to look at his cattle while waiting for the noon day meal. What followed can only be surmised. the body was not trampled or mutilated in any way, only the ugly bruise where he was struck showing the cause of his death.
Funeral service was held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from the Presbyterian church in Postville and was in charge of the Masonic lodge of which the deceased was a member and in which order he had taken the highest degree. Surviving are the widow, father, three brothers and one sister.
Mrs. Hecker was Miss Lena Bedenbender of this place. She was married to John C. Hecker, August 29th, 1905. She has taught most of the time since she was married, her last position being in the Greene high school. She expects to have a sale and rent her farm. She will probably return to school work for which she is unusually well qualified.
[note: see March 22nd issue for obit]
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