Hadsall, Craig 1954-1978

HADSALL, BALDWIN, RUSCHILL

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Date: 10/6/2010 at 12:12:18

Fatally Injured in Accident

Craig Hadsall, 23, of Colfax was killed shortly after noon Wednesday, May 3, when he was thrown into the path of the bulldozer he was operating at the Riverview Release Center south of Newton.

Authorities said the blade of the machine stuck while moving, throwing Hadsall over the front of the bulldozer and into its path. The machine was not equipped with a safety cage.

Hadsall was a supervisory employee at the Riverview Release Center and had been employed there since August 1976.

Funeral services were held Friday, May 5, at Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax.

The Rev. Robert Jones, pastor of the Colfax Christian Church, conducted services. Burial was in the McKeever Cemetery.

Memorial contributions to a fund in Mr. Hadsall's name will be accepted. They may be left at the funeral home.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Colleen Hadsall of Alexandria, Va.; his father, Richard Hadsall of San Francisco, California; two brothers, Rich of San Diego, California, and Brent of Alexandria; a sister, Ann, of Alexandria; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elsie Hadsall of Colfax; and his fiancee, Julie Baldwin.

The son of Richard and Colleen Ruschill Hadsall, he was born in December 1954, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was a 1973 graduate of Colfax Community High School.

Casket bearers: Jim Pease, Dick Swanson, Lowell Kono, Raymond Gardner, Bill Bain and David Baldwin ~ The Jasper County tribune, Colfax, Iowa, Thursday, May 11, 1978