Schultz, Kent Eugene – 1975-1986

MEADOR, SCHULTZ

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:37

Jasper youth dies in mower accident
Kent Eugene Schultz, 11, of Rt. 3, the son of Keith E. and Helen Joan Schultz, died Wednesday morning near his home after a tractor-mower he was operating apparently overturned suffocating him under the machine’s weight, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department.
Dr. Angel Martin, Jasper County assistant coroner, said death was due to massive chest injuries. According to Martin the youth was apparently driving the tractor on the gravel road when it went out of control rolling into the ditch.
Martin said Schultz’s body was discovered shortly after the accident by a rural mail carrier about 12:35 p.m. and was taken by Reasnor ambulance to Skiff Medical Center.
Services will be held Saturday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.
Source: Newton Daily News; Thursday, July 24, 1986, page 1

Kent Eugene Schultz, 11, of Rt. 3, Newton, died Wednesday, July 23, at his home of injuries received in a tractor accident.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.
Elder Glen Oswalt of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints will conduct services. Burial will be in the Newton Memorial park Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 a.m. Friday.
Memorial contributions to a fund in the youth name will be accepted.
Survivors are his parents, Keith E. and Joan Meador Schultz, two sisters, Eugenia and Leslie, both of Newton; his grandmother, Laurine (Mrs. Raymond) Schultz of Rt. 3, Newton, and his grandfather, Lawrence Don Meador of Newton.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Raymond Schultz, and his grandmother, Opal Meador.
A fifth grade student at Aurora Heights Elementary School, he was born May 22, 1975 in Newton.
Source: Newton Daily News; Thursday, July 24, 1986, page 2