Yesterday in Wayland

2015

Myron Hoylman of Wayland was driving a westbound tractor pulling two grain wagons filled with corn on 130th street when his rear wagon was struck from behind by a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix owned by Kenneth McDowell and operated by Hailey Egley of Wayland. Egley was unable to see the farm equipment due to gravel dust.

2005

Colette Marie Yutzy and Ronald Jacob Stotts were married July 16 at Bethel Mennonite Church in Wayland.

Lucille Davison Watson, age 92, passed away at the United Presbyterian Home in Washington.

2000

Fred Albert Dunbar, 61, of Washington, was killed in a two-car accident on Oct. 19 at the intersection of Hwy. 218 and 135th Street.

1995

Edith Hileman and Jim Magdefrau were presented with 50-year pins at the OES meeting.

Emmet and Elizabeth (Leichty) Spraker were honored for their Golden Anniversary.

Robert Duane Rich, age 46, passed away Oct. 18 at the Washington Hospital.

1990

Bids to be opened Nov. 15 for the sale of the Olds School Building. The building was closed last year when classes moved to the new high school in Wayland.

1985

Timothy Alliman, age 17, of Olds, suffered a gunshot wound to the left knee by accident.

1980

Gail Roth is to be ordained as a Mennonite minister on Oct. 26 at Sugar Creek.

1975

J. Laurence Henss was honored at a retirement dinner at the Captain’s Table in Washington. Nineteen of his 21 former co-workers of the Wayland State Bank were present to honor him.

Timm Lease received the 1975 Honor Camper Award during the annual meeting of the Easter Seal Society on Oct. 11.

1965

Benji Roth has bought the farm of Noah Unternahrer, better known as the late Thorton Aler farm.

1945

Melvin Conrad, 41, was instantly killed, and Lloyd Fountain died later at Proctor Hospital in Peoria, as the result of a collision of their car with a Peoria-bound Terminal freight train at the Cloverdale crossing. Two other men, all workers on their way to Caterpillar, were injured.