Jerry Reynolds loses arm at grandparents home - 1954

REYNOLDS, KESSEL

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 4/29/2006 at 15:14:32

Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
May 27, 1954

YOUNGSTER LOSES ARM IN MOWER

FAIRFIELD, AP- Jerry Reynolds, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvin Reynolds of Ollie, lost his right arm Tuesday in a rotary mower accident.

Doctors at a hospital here amputated the arm after it was badly mangled in the mower. The boy, a second grade pupil in Ollie, was injured at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kessel.