Edward M. Mason,

MASON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/23/2015 at 20:37:09

FARMER IS KILLED
BY LIGHTENING BOLT
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Ottumwa, Ia. -AP-
Edward M. Mason, 56, a farmer two miles south of Ottumwa, was killed when struck by lightening about 7:15 a.m. Monday, according to County Coroner Gordon Traul.

Mason had apparently sought shelter from a rainstorm beneath a tree in a pasture lot when the bolt struck, shattering the tree trunk and entered the body.
The body was found several minutes later by the farmer’s mother, Mrs. Jane Mason.

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