BULLDOZER SPILL AT LANDFILL KILLS RURAL BROOKLYN MAN
MALCOM, IA. -- Raymond Hawkins, 58, of rural Brooklyn died Tuesday afternoon when a bulldozer he was operating fell down the side of a mound at the Poweshiek County Landfill north of Malcom, a Poweshiek County deputy sheriff said.
Hawkins was moving garbage when his bulldozer "got off the side of a pit" deputy Marty Duffus said. The machine then when into an estimated 50-foot "free fall," he added, landing on its side.
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) - Weds., 13 Dec 1989 - Pg 15 Col 1
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Brooklyn
Raymond J. Hawkins, 58, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a bulldozer accident at the Poweshiek County Landfill near Malcom. He had been a heavy eqiupment operator for the county since 1978.
Survivors include his wife, LaVonne; a son, Paul of Deep River; two daughters, Vickie Crane of Montezuma and Joni Walters of Guernsey; two brothers, Richard of Santa Maria, Calif., and Clarence of Vinton; four sisters, Beatrice DeLung and Betty Kopf, both of Cedar Rapids, Helen Brown of Marengo and Francis Maschmann of Deep River; and eight grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Calvary Lutheran Church, Deep River. Burial: Harmony Cemetery, rural Brooklyn. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at McAninch-Fremming's, where the family will greet friends from 7 to 9 tonight. Memorials to the church.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 14 Dec 1989, Thu - Page 14 Col 1
MALCOM, IA. -- Raymond Hawkins, 58, of rural Brooklyn died Tuesday afternoon when a bulldozer he was operating fell down the side of a mound at the Poweshiek County Landfill north of Malcom, a Poweshiek County deputy sheriff said.
Hawkins was moving garbage when his bulldozer "got off the side of a pit" deputy Marty Duffus said. The machine then when into an estimated 50-foot "free fall," he added, landing on its side.
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) - Weds., 13 Dec 1989 - Pg 15 Col 1
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Brooklyn
Raymond J. Hawkins, 58, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a bulldozer accident at the Poweshiek County Landfill near Malcom. He had been a heavy eqiupment operator for the county since 1978.
Survivors include his wife, LaVonne; a son, Paul of Deep River; two daughters, Vickie Crane of Montezuma and Joni Walters of Guernsey; two brothers, Richard of Santa Maria, Calif., and Clarence of Vinton; four sisters, Beatrice DeLung and Betty Kopf, both of Cedar Rapids, Helen Brown of Marengo and Francis Maschmann of Deep River; and eight grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Calvary Lutheran Church, Deep River. Burial: Harmony Cemetery, rural Brooklyn. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at McAninch-Fremming's, where the family will greet friends from 7 to 9 tonight. Memorials to the church.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 14 Dec 1989, Thu - Page 14 Col 1
BULLDOZER SPILL AT LANDFILL KILLS RURAL BROOKLYN MAN
MALCOM, IA. -- Raymond Hawkins, 58, of rural Brooklyn died Tuesday afternoon when a bulldozer he was operating fell down the side of a mound at the Poweshiek County Landfill north of Malcom, a Poweshiek County deputy sheriff said.
Hawkins was moving garbage when his bulldozer "got off the side of a pit" deputy Marty Duffus said. The machine then when into an estimated 50-foot "free fall," he added, landing on its side.
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) - Weds., 13 Dec 1989 - Pg 15 Col 1
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Brooklyn
Raymond J. Hawkins, 58, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a bulldozer accident at the Poweshiek County Landfill near Malcom. He had been a heavy eqiupment operator for the county since 1978.
Survivors include his wife, LaVonne; a son, Paul of Deep River; two daughters, Vickie Crane of Montezuma and Joni Walters of Guernsey; two brothers, Richard of Santa Maria, Calif., and Clarence of Vinton; four sisters, Beatrice DeLung and Betty Kopf, both of Cedar Rapids, Helen Brown of Marengo and Francis Maschmann of Deep River; and eight grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Calvary Lutheran Church, Deep River. Burial: Harmony Cemetery, rural Brooklyn. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at McAninch-Fremming's, where the family will greet friends from 7 to 9 tonight. Memorials to the church.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 14 Dec 1989, Thu - Page 14 Col 1
MALCOM, IA. -- Raymond Hawkins, 58, of rural Brooklyn died Tuesday afternoon when a bulldozer he was operating fell down the side of a mound at the Poweshiek County Landfill north of Malcom, a Poweshiek County deputy sheriff said.
Hawkins was moving garbage when his bulldozer "got off the side of a pit" deputy Marty Duffus said. The machine then when into an estimated 50-foot "free fall," he added, landing on its side.
Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) - Weds., 13 Dec 1989 - Pg 15 Col 1
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Brooklyn
Raymond J. Hawkins, 58, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a bulldozer accident at the Poweshiek County Landfill near Malcom. He had been a heavy eqiupment operator for the county since 1978.
Survivors include his wife, LaVonne; a son, Paul of Deep River; two daughters, Vickie Crane of Montezuma and Joni Walters of Guernsey; two brothers, Richard of Santa Maria, Calif., and Clarence of Vinton; four sisters, Beatrice DeLung and Betty Kopf, both of Cedar Rapids, Helen Brown of Marengo and Francis Maschmann of Deep River; and eight grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Calvary Lutheran Church, Deep River. Burial: Harmony Cemetery, rural Brooklyn. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at McAninch-Fremming's, where the family will greet friends from 7 to 9 tonight. Memorials to the church.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 14 Dec 1989, Thu - Page 14 Col 1
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