CUBBAGE, Richard Laverne 1911-1987

CUBBAGE, BROWN, JOHNSON, MATSON, ADAMS, CLOKE, HYDE, TEDROW

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The Fairfield Ledger
Friday, October 2, 1987

Farmer, 75, dies in corn dryer

A Fairfield area farmer suffocated today when he apparently slipped inside a portable corn dryer and was covered by corn.

Richard CUBBAGE, 75, Route 4, was pronounced dead at the accident scene by Jefferson County Medical Examiner Dr. Terry Sutton. Sutton said CUBBAGE died of suffocation.

CUBBAGE was working on the farm of his step-grandson, Brian MATSON, one mile north of Perlee on the Pleasant Plain Road.

Jefferson County sheriff's officer Frank Bell said CUBBAGE's step-daughter, Betty MATSON, who lived in a nearby mobile home, noticed that CUBBAGE had corn up to his chest in the grain dryer. Bell said Ms. MATSON climbed into the dryer in an effort to get CUBBAGE out of the dryer but she couldn't move him by herself.

Bell said CUBBAGE told Ms. MATSON that he was trying to move the auger when he fell into the dryer. Bell said Ms. MATSON turned off the machinery and left to find help. The first person she found was Wayne Billingsley of rural West Point who was working on a nearby farm.

When Billingsley and Ms. MATSON returned to the scene they couldn't see CUBBAGE, Bell said. They decided to run the corn off of the dryer and when the corn level got lower CUBBAGE's body could be seen in the dryer, according to Bell.

Fairfield firemen used a saw to cut through heavy mesh in order to free CUBBAGE's body. The sheriff's office was called at 9:12 a.m. and the Fairfield Fire Department was called at 9:18 a.m.

Arrangements are pending at Behner Funeral Home.

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The Fairfield Ledger
Saturday, October 3, 1987

CUBBAGE funeral set Monday

Funeral services for Richard Laverne CUBBAGE, 75, Route 4, who died Friday morning in a farm accident at his home, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Behner Funeral Home with the Rev. David Kennedy officiating.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Family visitation will be from 7-8 p.m. Sunday. Memorials may be made to the donor's choice.

CUBBAGE was born Dec. 26, 1911 in Alexis, Ill., the son of Reuben and Cora BROWN CUBBAGE. He married Alice L. JOHNSON in 1940 in Kahoka, Mo., and she survives.

He lived his entire life in Jefferson County, where he had been a farmer and a carpenter.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by one stepdaughter, Betty MATSON, two stepgrandsons, Charles and Brian MATSON, one step-great-granddaughter, all of Fairfield; three brothers: Charles, Eldon; Robert, Fairfield; and Eugene, Batavia; and four sisters: Irene ADAMS, Chicago, Ill.; Mary CLOKE, Birmingham; Violet HYDE, Clarksville, Tenn.; and Lucile TEDROW, Glasgow.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Harold and Leonard.

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Admin. note: Buried in Lot 4th.191 with wife Alice who died in 1998.