Dewey Bishop 1914-1967

BISHOP, SISSEL, SPRINGER, GRAFF, BEHRLE

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/11/2021 at 06:52:30

9 March 1967 - The Tipton Conservative

An investigation is being continued by the Cedar county sheriff's office into the accident that led to the death of Dewey Bishop March 5. Bishop died at University hospitals, Iowa City, as the result of a fractured skull.

Bishop was working under contract at the Hargrave Implement company when the accident took place. He was assembling a Kenwanee disc in the quonset type warehouse west of the main Hargrave building and had come to work at about 7:30 a.m.

Other employees had seen him and heard him working in the building. However, he was working alone, assembling the disc, when he either fell or was struck by a piece of equipment. He was found by LeRoy Schaull and his son, Randall, about 8:30 a.m. when they went to the building to pick up a tractor that had been repaired. Bishop was incoherent and leaning against the disc. The only words he spoke were "I'm sick."

Bishop was taken to University hospitals, Iowa City, by ambulance. He died early the next day.

Investigating officers have not been able to determine the exact cause of death. Bishop was assembling the disc and was placing bolts at the time of the accident. Officers say that it is possible that a wing gang, which was held by a pin, may have been released and struck Bishop as he pulled the pin but this has not been established as the cause of his death.

Sheriff Richard Barden said Tuesday that he felt the result of an autopsy on Bishop indicated strongly that his death was due to a fall. Bishop's skull was unusually thin, according to information received by the sheriff, and a fall of a short distance, such as would have taken place had Bishop become dizzy or ill ***missing lines*** with Hargrave to assemble machinery and it is not known exactly when he came to work. The disc was being assembled in a cleared area in the warehouse and there was no other equipment within 10 feet of where he was working at the time of the accident.

Funeral services for Bishop will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 8 at the Sheets and Son Funeral home wit the Rev. Virgil Freyermuth officiating. Burial will be in the Tipton Masonic cemetery.

Pallbearers are Oscar and Clare Nebergall, Robert McCroskey, Milo Ahrens, Roy Foens and Donald Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wehde, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Nebergall and Jerald Nebergall are in charge of flowers. Mrs. Irma Crawford is organist.

The son of Charles W. and Mary J. Reis Bishop, he was born March 30, 1914 at Perryville, Mo. He was married to Alice Lucille Sissel at Imperial, Mo. on July 4, 1939.

He had farmed south of Tipton since 1939 and also worked as a mechanic. He was of the Baptist faith.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charley W. Bishop, Perryville, Mo.; his wife; a son, Donald Gene, Tipton; 3 brothers, David, Tipton; Chas. D., Perryville, Mo. and William, Mechanicsville and 3 sisters, Mrs. Homer (Lorean) Springer and Mrs. Arthur (Alma) Graff, Perryville, Mo. and Mrs. Fred (Martha) Behrle, Tipton.

He was preceded in death by a sister and a brother in infancy.