Services

The services for Emil Hopf are as follows:

The visitation is at the Becher-Kluesner Funeral Home in Jasper, Indiana on Sunday, June 25 from 11-8(?).

The funeral is at St. Rapheal in DuBois, Indiana on Monday, June 26 at 10 am. All times are EST. If you are planning on getting a hotel room, please call the individual hotels. Most of them are fully booked due to Holiday World. I am heading to IN on Saturday and if you need anything please call, as I will have very limited internet access. Here are the three articles from the Jasper
Herald detaling the accident.



Wednesday, June 23, 2010



By BILL POWELL

Herald Staff Writer



DUBOIS — A 71-year-old man was taken by helicopter to an Evansville hospital overnight after a tractor rollover earlier Tuesday left him partially submerged in a creek for as long as seven hours.

It is believed the victim, whose identity was not released and whose injuries were not disclosed by presstime, will recover. The man reportedly remained conscious throughout his ordeal and talked with his rescuers.

Memorial Hospital Emergency Medical Services, the Dubois Volunteer Fire Department and the Dubois County Sheriff's Department were notified about the accident at a farm in the 2700 block of East County Road 300N at 10:49 p.m.

The man had been doing logging work using a tractor with a front-end loader near a creek more than one and a half miles from County Road 300N, according to fire department spokesman Zach Eichmiller. Although details are sketchy, the tractor rolled over into the creek that was more than 5 feet deep and its loader attachment apparently trapped the man's leg.

A member of the Dubois fire department who helps run the farm discovered the victim after the trapped man's wife called to inquire about her husband's whereabouts. The firefighter went to the farm and saw that the man's truck was parked there and a tractor was missing. The man was known to use that particular tractor when either feeding cattle or logging, Eichmiller said.

After driving to an area on the property where the family had done some logging, the firefighter heard the man's cries for help after shutting off his truck's engine. The man was thought to have been pinned for about six hours at that point, according to Eichmiller.

"He had to use his one hand to keep his head out of water for that entire time," Eichmiller said. "He was laying mostly submerged in water except for his head."

The firefighter who found the man stayed with him and used a two-way radio he had with him to notify authorities about the accident.

It took the combined efforts of a large winch on one of the fire department's trucks and a winch on a Uebelhor & Sons wrecker to free the victim, who was flown from the scene, according to Eichmiller. It took at least 45 minutes after the victim was found to free him, according to authorities.

Eichmiller indicated that a rollbar was thought to have kept the toppled tractor from rolling totally on top of the man. Authorities were told the tractor's rollbar was seldom engaged and was normally kept flipped down. Pins on each side of the rollbar would need to be used to lock it in place if it was deployed as a safety device.

After the tractor was pulled from the creek, Eichmiller said, he pushed on the rollbar and it easily went back down. "As (the tractor) went over, that rollbar had to have flipped up and it caught itself.

"It was just his day."



Contact Bill Powell at bpowell@dcherald.com.



Update – Thursday, June 24



EVANSVILLE — The victim in a Tuesday tractor rollover accident was listed in critical condition today at an Evansville hospital.



Emil Hopf, 71, 3259 N. 325E, Dubois, is in the surgical trauma intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.



Hopf was doing logging work using a tractor with a front-end loader at a remote site on a farm in the 2700 block of East County Road 300N when the tractor rolled over into a creek Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities. The tractor’s loader attachment trapped Hopf’s leg.



Authorities said the victim had to prop himself up to keep his head above water.



Hopf’s wife placed calls while searching for her husband and Greg Mehling, a member of the Dubois Volunteer Fire Department who is Hopf’s nephew by marriage, went searching for him. Mehling also helps run the farm.



Mehling located Hopf and used a two-way radio to notify authorities about the accident at 10:49 p.m. Tuesday. It took the combined efforts of a large winch on one of the fire department’s trucks and a winch on a Uebelhor & Sons wrecker to free Hopf, who authorities said may have been trapped in the creek for as long as seven hours.



Hopf was flown by helicopter from the scene to the Evansville hospital.



Update – Friday, June 25, 2010



EVANSVILLE — The victim in a Tuesday tractor rollover accident died Thursday night at an Evansville hospital.



Emil Hopf, 71, 3259 N. 325E, Dubois, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. CDT at St. Mary’s Hospital, according to the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office. An autopsy was planned for today.



Hopf was doing logging work using a tractor with a front-end loader at a remote site on a farm in the 2700 block of East County Road 300N when the tractor rolled over into a creek Tuesday afternoon, trapping him, according to authorities.



Hopf, who was trapped in the water for hours, was flown by helicopter from the scene to the Evansville hospital.



Bill Powell

Staff Writer

The Herald

216 E. Fourth St.

Jasper IN 47546

(812)482-2626 (ext. 116)

bpowell@dcherald.com

Closet Update

My closet is finished...almost. All the shelves are up, just need to vacuum and put the closet pack together. I am so happy with how it looks. I have a whole wall of just shelves!! I can take my sweat shirts off of the hangers and stack them neatly. I can pick EVERYTHING off of the floor and put it on a shelf!!!! Depending on how things go, we *might* buy a set of drawers to add to it. So when the whole thing is put together, hopefully by this weekend, I will post some pics.

More on the closet

So my closet is still a work in progress. Eric has been working on another project, which will be blogged about later, and the closet has been put on the back burner...until today. Eric figured out what he needed and six, yes six, trips to various hardware stores later my closet is staring to look normal again.

Instead of just replacing the broken shelf, we decided to redo the closet and make it function better. We will now have multiple shelves on multiple levels, instead of just three shelves around the top. I am not 100% sure what he bought at the store, so there might be some more suprises in store. Just hope I can get into my bed this evening, I need it!

2nd Birthday

Birthday Pics

All three enamored with the Cards game

Mom and I made the cake.


Big present!! New sand box. Too bad it's been too hot to use it

2 year molars and my closet

Honestly, I could not think of a clever title for this. Alex is getting over a cold, due to his 2 year molars. He has been chomping on just about everything, especially his fingers. Poor guy has been stuck inside most of the week because it has been raining just about everyday. We are doing the countdown to his 2nd birthday. Since we haven't been home to see my folks as a family since Christmas, we are celebrating Alex's birthday in IL. The small town where my folks live,(pop.200), just got a new playground last fall and Alex is anxious to play on it!

So, my closet...I am ironing Thursday afternoon and out of the blue the whole back part of my closet shelving falls down. I had not been in the closet, nor had anything been added/subtracted to that part of the closet. Upon further inspection, anchors that were holding the shelving were snapped off. Upon further FURTHER inspection, the whole shelving unit was not anchored into studs, it was just anchored into the drywall. Well, no wonder it fell. Not sure why it hasn't fallen sooner. Eric has spent today trying to fix the problem and is making *slight* progress. Turns out the whole unit is not even put together properly, (it came with the house). I can't get to my clothes, or anything else, but it is getting Eric to clean the closet ;)

Craziness

The last four weeks have been crazy busy. I have been taking my Dad to a pain clinic two days a week. Between that, Gymboree and library, I am only home Tuesday afternoon and Friday. Dad stays with us while he goes to his appointments, so he is here from Tuesday night through Thursday evening or Friday morning. He gets his re-evaluation a week from this Wednesday and that will determine if he continues for another 5 weeks.

Meanwhile, I am playing catch-up from being gone last weekend to the Vera Bradley Outlet sale in Fort Wayne, Indiana. If anyone wants to know what the sale is about, type in Vera Bradley in YouTube and see the sale video. People come from all over the world to this event. It was nice to be gone for a bit and see the Chapman and Anderson families in Indianapolis.

Alex is rapidly approaching his second birthday; 2 weeks away as of this posting. Just when I thought all of his teeth were in, he got a small cold and has started getting in his 2 year molars. The only real downside to this is that he doesn't eat much when he is teething. He is starting to recognize some letters and is starting to count. He really enjoys playing in the 'water' and cannot wait for it to be warm enough to get the pool out.

Mama

You know it's bad, when you have to look at your previous post to see how long it has been since you blogged. First off, Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, especially my own and my MIL. I was greeted with more Vera today, ;) (never EVER a bad thing!!). I was excited to go to brunch at Sweet Tomatoes and it didn't hurt that I ate for free. Today has been such a gorgeous day outside. We have been chilly the last couple of days, but no wind today makes it almost perfect. It think it is in the low 60s here today. I spent some time with my plants and took a cutting off of my wild rose bush. It is just covered with blossoms right now.

Right now, I am sitting here on the couch watching the baseball game with the Cards up 11 to 2 against Pittsburgh in the 8th inning. So nice not to HAVE to do anything today, since Monday starts the cycle all over again!