Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kyser, Gerald Verne 1944
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Lowell Ledger, 26 Oct 1944

Tragedy struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kyser of Lowell, R. 3, Sunday
when their four-year-old son, Gerald Verne, Jr., was killed in an unusual
accident while they were visiting at the home of Mrs. Kyser’s sister, Mrs. Harry
R. Wilson, near Williamston.  Gerald had been playing in the yard with this
sister and cousin, who left him alone while they went for a walk.  In some
manner the child had managed to move a large lawn roller weighing around 300
lbs., tugging it down the driveway behind him until a slight depression in the
road must have sent it rolling on top of him, crushing the breath from him.  The
family who were holding a reunion for a brother who was home on furlough, were
engaged in writing to another brother overseas, and it was some 15 or 20 minutes
before the child was discovered.  He was rushed to Sparrow hospital, Lansing,
where all efforts at resuscitation failed.  

Gerald met death on his birthday, have been born in Boston township on October
22, 1940.  Besides the parents he leaves a sister, Kathleen 5, and a baby
brother, Charles.  

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 3 o’ clock in the Roth Chapel, with Rev.
C. E. Pollock officiating.  Four uncles served as pallbearers, Corp. Walter
Ellis, Percy Ellis, Leo Kyser and Donald Kyser.  Burial was in South Boston
cemetery.  The entire community joins in extending sympathy to the bereaved
parents and other relatives.


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