----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1950

DIES ON MONDAY
FARMER COLLAPSES IN BARN DOING CHORES

Greenwood--Hoken Ystad, 51, who resided 3 miles north and 3 miles east of Greenwood, Clark County, died at approximately 10:30 Monday night, Oct. 30, 1950 of coronary thrombosis. Ystad, who had been in Greenwood during the afternoon, returned to the farm at about 5 p.m. Monday.

About 5:30 p.m. he left the farm home to attend the chores and a half hour later his wife left the house to help her husband.

When she arrived at the barn she found her husband lying in the feeding alley. He was breathing, but when she tried to arouse him, she got no results. Thinking her husband was asleep she went ahead with with the chores, finished the work, and returned to the house.

At 8:30 p.m. she returned to the barn, became alarmed at the way her husband was breathing and went to the home of Arthur Turnquist, a neighbor, and asked that he return to her home with her as there was something wrong with her husband.

When the two arrived at the barn, Ystad was still breathing. He was carried to the house and a local doctor called, but Ystad died before the doctor arrived, at about 10:30 p.m.

Official made an investigation into the matter later on Monday night. Deputy Coroner John Bergemann said yesterday that an inquest would not be held.

Mr. Ystad was born Nov. 1, 1899 in the Town of Beaver and had resided in this area all of his life. He was married to Lily Niemi at Withee on Oct. 31, 1942.