Orist W. Hess
Newton School Board Head Drowns in Lake
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Orist
and sawmill Orist
with threshing crew TDN
obit
Word of the death Tuesday of O. W Hess prominent farmer and thresherman of Newton
Township
and president of the Newton Township school board, who lived four miles southwest of Troy on
the Fenner Pike was received by A. M. Hawn of pleasant Hill, according to the
report, Mr. Hess
was drowned in a lake near Bemidji Minn., while spending a vacation at that place with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Vern Thompson, brother and sister in law of Mrs. Hess. Full particulars of the drowning are not
known, but the body will be brought to Pleasant Hill and is expected to arrive Thursday morning.
Mr. Hess was widely known in this vicinity, he was 52 years old and had resided at the present residence on the Fenner Pike for 14
years. He has been a member on the Newton Twp. School Board for four years and two years ago was elected to the presidency. Besides his
widow, eight children survive him: three sons, Herbert and John Hess of Pleasant Hill and Jacob of near Tippecanoe City; and five
daughters, Margaret, Thelma, Frances, Isobel and Jean, who live at home.
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 Pike 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
Cemetary.
TDN Aug 28 & 29, 1929
