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Blue Grass man killed by overturned lawn tractor

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BLUE GRASS, Iowa – A Blue Grass man was killed Saturday afternoon after becoming trapped beneath an overturned lawn tractor.

Donald Fister, 69, was found dead at the base of a roadside ditch he had been mowing along Highway 61.

The emergency call was received at 4:11 PM.  Fister was already deceased by the time a Muscatine County Sheriff's Deputy arrived.

 

 

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