Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hale, Leon 1944
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Belding Banner-News, 4 May 1944

Keene Farmer Killed By Dynamite Blast

Wife Watches As Tragedy Is Enacted and Mate Meets Death.

A blast of dynamite which he had set off to remove a stump on his farm 10 miles
south and west of this city, was responsible for the death of Leon Hale, aged 50
years, Keene township farmer, at about 10 o’clock last Thursday morning.

Hale had been given permission through the sheriff’s office to purchase 50
pounds of dynamite earlier in the week for the purpose of blasting stumps from
some of the fields on his farm and it was while he was engaged in this operation
that the fatal accident happened.  He had placed several sticks of the explosive
under a stump and had lighted the fuse and was preparing to place a charge under
another stump about four rods away, when the charge tore the first stump out of
the ground and sent it sailing through the air, striking Hale and knocking him
to the earth and crushing his skull.  He died almost instantly.

Mrs. Hale, at work in the kitchen of the family home, had been watching her
husband’s operations and witnessed the accident and saw her husband fall.  She
summoned aid immediately.

Richard Dodes, undersheriff, and Henry Myers, coroner, of Ionia, were called and
after looking the circumstances over, connected with the accident, decided that
there would be no need of an inquest.

Mr. Hale is survived by his widow; five sons, Jack, in the navy; Elmer, Phlorus,
Roger and Lloyd, and two daughters, Vivian and Marian.


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