Mick, Lyle M. 1892-1950

MICK, HOLMES, BRODERSEN, WILSON

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Date: 11/12/2008 at 15:08:44

Newton Daily News; Sept. 9, 1950

LYLE MICK VICTIM OF TRAGEDY

Trailer House Razed At Reasnor, Victim Employed at Plant 2

Lyle Mick, 57, Reasnor, was burned to death early this morning when the trailer house in which he lived was gutted by flames.

Coroner Ralph Toland said the tragedy was discovered about 5:30 o'clock this morning by Harold Sparks of Reasnor. Toland said Mr. Sparks noticed a cloud of smoke in the area near the Reasnor ball park where Mick lived in a trailer. Sparks secured the Reasnor fire truck and rushed to the scene to extinguish the flames.

His efforts were in vain however. When the flames were brought under control, Sparks and Doward Terpstra, Reasnor merchant, removed Mick's body from the trailer. The body was badly burned and Coroner Toland said Mick had been dead for at least four hours.

Mick, who was employed by a construction company building the addition to Maytag Plant 2, lived in the trailer alone. Coroner Toland said the cause of the fire was hard to determine.

Mick had lived in Jasper county for a number of years. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Monroe American Legion Post.

Mr. Mick was preceded in death by his parents and one daughter.

Survivors include three sons Dwight, Colfax, Wendell, Oskaloosa, and Daryl of Marshalltown; one daughter Lyla of Monroe, and a sister Mrs. Earl Broderson of Colfax. Mr. Mick's estranged wife lives in Monroe.

Funeral services will be held at the Galesburg Christian church at two o'clock Monday afternoon. Burial will be in the Hewitt cemetery near Monroe. Members of the Monroe American Legion Post will be pallbearers.

Arrangements are in charge of the Toland Funeral Home.