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- Appleton Post Crescent
Thu., Apr. 19, 1928 pg. 10
QUARRY EMPLOYEE CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER STEAM SHOVEL
George Hopfensperger Fatally Injured at Kaukauna Stone Quarry Wednesday
Kaukauna-George Hopfensperger, 24, died at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon at Appleton of injuries received while working at the quarry of the Kaukauna Stone Quarry Co. at noon the same day. He is survived by his wife and four children.
Mr. Hopfensperger was operating the steam shovel at the quarry and left his control levers to make a small repair in the quarry track in front of the shovel. He left the shovel suspended in the air, expecting that the repairs would take but a short time, and while he was working on the track the shovel fell on him, crushing his body. He was taken to St. Elizabeth hospital immediately where he died later in the afternoon. He was steam shovel operator at the quarry for four years.
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Kaukauna Times Obituary
April 20, 1928
George Hopfensperger, 24 years of age, died Wednesday as a result of injuries received when he was crushed under the dipper of a steam shovel here at the Kaukauna Quarry.
Tuesday, April 24, 1928
HOPFENSPERGER RITES ARE HELD HERE SATURDAY
Hold Funeral Services For Local Young Man At St. Mary's Church Here
Funeral services for George Hopfensperger, 24 years of age, who died Wednesday at the St. Elizabeth Hospital at Appleton from the effects of injuries recieved when he was struck by the bucket of a steam shovel which fell on him while at work at the Kaukauna Quarry Company's stone quarry here, were held Saturaday morning at the St. Mary's Church at 9 o'clock with Rev. C. Ripp in charge Requiem High Mass. Interment was in the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Frank McCormick, John Kircher, Philip Hartzheim, Walter Hartzheim, Aloys Hartzheim and Peter Kauth. Members of the Catholic Order of Foresters, with which organization he affiliated, attended the services in a body.
The deceased, Mr. Hopfensperger was born on March 4, 1904 at Sherwood and came to this city to live about three years ago. He was married to Miss Leona Hartzheim of Kaukauna on October 17, 1922. He had been in the employ of the Kaukauna Quarry Company for the past three years, operating the big steam shovel which caused his death.
Surviving the late Kaukauna man are his widow, for children, George 4, Leo 3, Robert 14 months, and James 1 month; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hopfensperger of Sherwood; three sisters, Mrs. Herbert Vanden Linden of Menasha; Carrie and Marie of Sherwood; four brothers, Dan and Herman of Kaukauna; Andrew and Albert of Sherwood.
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