A Kennard farmer returning to his home after a day of cultivating in a nearby field, lost his life Tuesday evening when his tractor was struck from the rear by a heavy truck. He was Harry T. Johnson, 65, who had lived in the Kennard vicinity most of his life. The tractor on which Johnson was riding was struck by a truck driven by Isadore Nervin, Cedar Falls, Iowa. It was one of two trucks traveling together, both loaded with structural steel.

In reconstructing the accident, it was determined that Mr. Johnson had been cultivating corn in a field near Kennard. He had started home, leaving the field on the south side of Highway 30 near Kennard. He had started home, leaving the field and coming out onto Highway 30. He traveled a distance east on the highway and met a west-bound car. The car passed and there was no more on-coming traffic. Apparently feeling that it was a good time to cross over to the north shoulder of the highway, he turned his tractor across the pavement to approach the north side of the road preparatory to turning into the road which leads to his home north of the highway.

Funeral services will be held Friday, June 12th at 2 PM at the Bendorf Funeral Home in Blair. The Rev. Roy Jorgensen, of Kennard, will conduct the service and burial will be made in the Kennard Cemetery. Pallbearers will be James, Milo and Lyle Christensen, Darold Webster, Elmer Vonderslev and Harold Magill.

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

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