Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Houghton, Forrest 1940
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Lake Odessa Wave, 28 Mar 1940

Forrest Houghton Dies From Accident

Ribs and Collar Bone Broken Lungs Punctured.  Leaves Widow, Son, Mother and One 
Brother.  Funeral Thursday.

Monday while Forrest Houghton was operating a portable saw mill on the Frank 
Short farm southwest of this village he was so badly injured that he died three 
hours later in the local hospital.

He was sawing out a 2x4 from a log when the log was caught in the saw in such a 
way that he was thrown against a pile of logs crushing his chest and breaking 
his collar bone, at the same time a piece of the board penetrated his lung.

He was brought to the hospital here where he died about six o’clock Monday 
afternoon, three hours after the accident.

Mr. Houghton leaves a widow, Ethel, a son Allen, his mother Mrs. Ora Houghton 
of Woodland, and a brother Roy, a missionary for the United Brethren church in 
Sierra Leone, Africa.

The funeral will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at the Tamarac church.  The 
pastor Rev. E. M. Wheeler will officiate.


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