Man Falls From Stack of Hay at Harry Wrich Farm

Peter Lohse, 54, a resident of Washington county for the past 52 years, was killed about six o’clock Tuesday evening when he slipped and fell from a stack of hay he was helping round off at the Harry Wrich farm a short distance south of Kennard. The man landed on his head and shoulders and his neck was broken in the plunge, medical examination revealed. He died almost instantly.

The accident victim, an uncle of Harry and Charles Wrich of the Kennard vicinity, had worked from time to time for the brothers as a farm hand and was employed by Charles at the time of the tragedy. Charles and Lohse were helping Harry with his haying and were almost ready to quit for the day when the elder man plunged from the stack after a desperate effort to catch himself.

The body was brought to Blair and funeral services are planned for Friday afternoon at 2:30 from the home of Mr. Lohse’s sister, Mrs. Henry Wrich, 501 West Front street. Rev. Hans C. Jersild will officiate and the body will be taken to the Orum cemetery for burial.

Mr. Lohse was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1878, and came to America with his parents and brother and sister in 1880. The family settled near Orum where they farmed for a number of years. After the death of the parents the children disposed of the farm and since that time Mr. Lohse had worked a greater part of the time as a farm hand. He had never married.

Surviving are one brother, Henry Lohse of Benson, and the sister, Mrs. Wrich.

#2-25 Aug., 1932 - The Enterprise

PETER LOHSE

Peter Lohse, fifty four years of age, met his death last Tuesday afternoon in a fall from a haystack while assisting a neighbor at stacking.

Deceased was born in this county, and was never married. He leaves to mourn his sad death one sister, Mrs. Henry Wrich of Blair and one brother, Henry Lohse of Benson.

Funeral services will be held Friday from the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Wrich of Second and west Front street, and interment will be made in the Orum cemetery. Rev. Jersild will officiate.

Note: Find a Grave # 155039338. Buried in the Lincoln Lutheran Cemetery at Orum, NE in Plot H-8. Born 5 April 1878; died 2 Aug 1932.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~