Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 2, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 December 1948 — Ram Attacks, Kills Aged Tefft Fanner [ARTICLE]

Ram Attacks, Kills Aged Tefft Fanner

Milan Peterman Loses Life In Barnyard Tragedy Saturday; Body Mutilated Milan Peterman, 90-year-old farmer residing two miles north of Tefft in Jasper county, was butted , fatally by a ram which attacked him as he was walking through the barnyard about three o’clock Saturday afternoon. There was no eyewitness to the tragedy. Reconstructing the fatality, it is believed that the aged gentleman’s head struck a large boulder at the base of the barn as he was knocked over, and then attacked again as he lay on the ground. His injuries included fracture of the skull, crushed chest, broken arm, nose fracture and many lacerations. The fatality was discovered by Mrs. Peterman who went to investigate his absence. V Mrs. Peterman said her husband went to the pasture to drive up the cattle and some sheep to the barnyard. Mr. Peterman was born in Austria Hungary. Previous to going to the Kankakee township farm eight years ago the family lived*, in Chicago, Gary, and Cedar Lake, going there from the latter place. Surviving besides the widow is a son, Clarence, a grandson and a granddaughter. The funeral services were conducted from Kosanke Funeral Home in Kouts at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Burial was at Calumet Park cemetery at the intersection of Highways 53 and 30.