Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Krausz, Richard G. November 5, 1934
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Portland Review & Observer-Nov. 8,1834

COLLINS MAN MEETS DEATH IN LANSING.
Richard Krausz, 27, Dies Following Odd Accident At Sugar Factory
LIFE CRUSHED FROM BODY BY BEET TRUCK
Fatality Occurred Less Than Three Months After Wife Was Burned To Death.

Less than three months from the time his wife lost her life from burns sustained
when a kerosene can exploded in her hands while she was attempting to build a fire in the
kitchen stove at her home on the Knox farm, near Collins, Richard Krausz met a violent death
 at the beet sugar factory at Lansing.

The accident occurred Monday afternoon when he was crushed between a truck and 
platform at the sugar factory, where he had been employed for the past several
weeks. He was rushed to St. Lawrence hospital where examination showed a fractured skull and 
internal injuries from which he died shortly before  eight o'clock  that evening.
The accident occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon when a truck load of beets backed up
to the receiving pit and after the load had been dumped the driver, Del Wolfe, of
Williamston, believing the machine to be out of gear, cranked the engine. When the motor started
the truck backed up, crushing Richard between the rear of the truck and platform,
throwing his body into the pit on a spiked conveyor used for drawing the beets in the factory.

Mr. Krausz was 27 years of age and was born on the farm north of Portland on the
Collins road, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eben Krausz, have resided for many years.
Besides the parents two small children survive, Lawrence Evan, two and one-half years of
age, and Gerald Richard, eight months old. Since the death of the mother last August the
children have been with the grandparents, who will continue to care for them.

Funeral services were held from the home and Congregational church this afternoon,
with Rev. John H. Stewart officiating. Burial was made in Danby cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Danby Cem.-Lot Sec.3-#51

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