O. W. HESS
O.W. HESS FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK AND PLUNGES FROM BOAT
BURIAL AT PLEASANT HILL
The body of O. W. Hess, prominent Newton township farmer and thresherman, who died while on a
fishing trip at white lake, near Bemidgi Minn., Tuesday, arrived in Pleasant Hill
at 10 o'clock
Thursday evening.
Mr. Hess was in a fishing boat, in about 15 feet of water
when he suffered a heart attack
and fell from the boat. It is believed that Mr. Hess may have been dead before
he reached the water
as his body did not leave the surface.
The funeral services will be conducted from the late
residence on the Fenner O
ike at 1 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, and from the Pleasant Hill Christian church at 2
o'clock, with with Rev. O. P. Furnas
of that church in officiation. Burial will be made in Pleasant Hill cemetery.
Provided by Thomas Hess: it is my great grandfathers obituary, Orist Webster Hess, at the time of his death he was president of the Newton Twp. School Board. This obituary appeared in the Troy Daily News I believe on Aug 30,1929, there was also a front page article on Aug 28,1929.