Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chambers, Russell D. 1973
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Ionia Sentinel – 9 January 1973
A 57 year old Long Lake Road man, Russell D. Chambers, died from crushing 
chest injuries when pinned between the frame and dump box of a truck he was 
working on Monday afternoon.  Ionia county medical officer Dr. Leandre 
Bautista and deputy medical examiners William Bensinger, Ionia county under-
sheriff and Sheriff O. Gary Newton indicated Chambers died after a dump-box 
guide penetrated his lower chest area.

Sheriff Newton said his department was notified of the accident about 4 pm 
after Mrs. Chambers heard her husband scream as the hydraulic lift failed, 
allowing the box to fall.  Undersheriff Bensinger said a passerby, Jerry Hall 
of Long Lake Road, when he found he was unable to move the dump box with the 
truck’s power, started a nearby farm tractor with a hydraulic front end and 
raised the dumpbox allowing authorities to free the man, reportedly already 
dead from the crushing injury.  Further examination by the medical examiner at 
Ionia County Memorial Hospital confirmed the cause of death.

Chambers, who lived t 289 East Long Lake road in a house trailer, was 
apparently a self-employed contractor in hauling gravel and providing masonry 
work in the area.  According to Sheriff Newton, he formerly lived on Bricker 
Road in Montcalm County, where he operated a small farm.  He made his home on 
Long Lake Road approximately one year.  After examination at the county 
hospital the body was removed to Stone-Kauffman funeral home where funeral 
arrangements were being completed.  Chambers death is the first non-highway 
related death involving a motor vehicle in Ionia County.

He was born July 22, 1915 in Ionia County the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Chambers and was a lifetime farmer.  Surviving are his wife, Margaret; four 
sons, Dennis of Muir, Keith of Saranac, Wayne of Muir and Richard of 
Greenville, S.C., three stepchildren; 12 grandchildren; brother, Max Chambers 
of Lake City, and two sisters, Mrs. Merrie McNaughton and Mrs. Helen Hitchcock 
of Jackson.  Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 pm at Stone-Kauffman 
funeral home John Doughty, director.  Interment will be at Palo Cemetery.  
Family will be at the funeral home Tuesday from 7 to 9 pm and Wednesday from 2 
to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm.



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