Mulder, Ronald (Died 1954)

MULDER

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/4/2010 at 16:59:40

Ronald Mulder, 19, Sioux Center,
was killed Nov. 5, by electricity
while working with an I.P.S. crew
erecting a substation southeast of Hull.

Crew members said Mulder was on
the ground guiding a steel I-beam
attached to a crane on a truck when the
I crane came in contact with a
high ten truck were insulated by
the vehicle's rubber tires and escaped
injury. Survivors are his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Y.
Mulder; a brother, Arlyn; and
two sisters, Shirley and Roxena ,
all of Sioux Center. Burial was
Tuesday in Sioux Center.

Floyd Valley Farmers News
Friday, November 12, 1954
Le Mars, Iowa
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Another news item:

Ronald Mulder, 20 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mulder of
Sioux Center, was killed by electricity
while working with the Crawford
Electric Company who are doing
sub-station construction work for
Northwest Iowa Coop.

The accident happened about 10:30
a.m. Friday, November 5, southeast
of Hull.

Crew members said Mulder was on
the ground guiding a steel I –beam
attached to a crane on a truck when
the crane came in contact with a high
tension power line.

Others in the truck were insulated by
the rubber tires on the vehicle and
escaped injury. They applied artificial
respiration until Dr. C. D. Oelrich, a
Sioux Center physician, arrived and
pronounced Mulder dead.

Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Y. Mulder, a brother, Arlyn, and
two sisters, Shirley and Ropena, all of
Sioux Center.

Rev. P. A. De Jong of Pella, Ia. will officiate.
Burial will be in the Sioux Center Cemetery.

Le Mars Globe Post
Monday, November 8, 1954
Le Mars, Iowa