St. John man dies in combine accident

A tragic accident in a Thera harvest field took the life of Irvin Bailey, a 69-year-old life-long resident of St. John Saturday Aug. 14.

Mr. Bailey was a member of a crew performing maintenance on a combine on the Mark Richter family harvest operation on Lee Road, six miles east of Endicott.

According to a report from the county Sheriff’s office, he climbed up on the combine to close an engine panel. The driver of the combine, unaware Mr. Bailey had climbed on the combine, drove it forward. The sudden movement caused Mr. Bailey to fall to the ground. He was then run over by a rear tire of the...