Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kidder, Jerry Lee August 24, 1970
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Lake Odessa Wave - August 27, 1970
           CAVE-IN ACCIDENT CLAIMS LOCAL MAN
   Jerry Lee Kidder, 34, passed away Monday afternoon at the Kelsey Hospital about a
half hour after 
admittance following a cave-in accident while working with the Leach Construction
Co. of Grand Rapids at 
Lakeview.
   Kidder was working in a 7 foot deep trench when the walls collapsed.  It took 15
minutes for workmen and 
Lakeview firemen to free Kidder.  He was taken to the hospital where he died of
multiple skull injuries an hour 
later. 
   He had been employed by the construction company about a year.
   Mr. Kidder was born at Gaylord May 14, 1936, son of Glen andAlice (Pritchard)
Kidder, and attended school 
at Alba and came to the Lake Odessa area in 1959.  He served with the U.S. Army in
Germany for two years.
   Surviving are three daughters, Tammy, Lisa and Amy of Lansing;  his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Glen  Kidder of 
Woodland; four brothers, Rev. Mark Kidder of Newberry, Calvin of Sunfield, Lewis of
Aurelius and Larry of 
Lake Odessa, and three sisters, Mrs. James (Celia) Bowen of Woodland, Mrs. Lewis
(Treva) Dewey of Lumas, 
Calif., and Mts. Lila Smith of Hastings.
   Funeral services were held Thursday (today) at 1:30 at the Pickens Funeral Chapel
with burial in Lakeside 
Cemetery.

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