Dairy farmer killed when hay bale rolls onto him
BARTELSO -- Authorities in Clinton County say a dairy farmer was killed when a hay bale fell onto him.
Coroner Phil Moss says 63-year-old Jim Varel was on a front-loading tractor Wednesday on his farm near Bartelso when one of the round bales he was loading rolled back onto him.
Varel died at a Breese hospital.
A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Cecilia Church in Bartelso.
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