Roger John Ochsenbein, 29, of Bennington was killed about 11.40 AM Tuesday, October 8, 1968, when somehow a set screw In a revolving collar controlling play of a drive or line shaft on the lower floor of Montpelier Milling Company building caught the neckband of his coveralls, binding his neck against the power shaft. Coroner Nile Matthews had an autopsy performed on Wednesday morning by Dr E. B. Webb, a pathologist of Pocatello. Death was due to compound fractures of upper cervical vetrabrae and severed spinal cord. Stanley W Hansen of Pickleville, whose truck was being loaded with sacks of seed grain by Mr Ochsenbein from the south door, was the first to report the accident, when after several minutes, Mr. Ochsenbein failed to return and complete the order. On making investigation and seeing what had happened Mr. Hansen went to Walton Feed company to the north and spread an alarm. Doyle Portala, accompanied by William Bee of Bloomington and Clyde Marx. an employee of Walton Feed returned to the Montpelier Mill and pulled the switch on the motor of the electrically driven shaft. Before going to work for Mr. Ipsen, Mr. Ochsenbein was most recently employed by Mountain Fuel Supply, and prior to that he was with El Paso Products for two years, and Central Farmers for five years. As a youth he worked in local cafes.

A son of John H. and Bernice Wixom Ochsenbein, he was born April 30, 1939 in Montpelier. He attended elementary grades and high school where he was a member of the tumbling team and graduated in 1957. He was interested in horses and racing. Mr. Ochsenbein was a member of the LDS Church. Mr. Ochsenbein and Connie Velesquez were married in Montpelier on July 19, 1959. He resided in Montpelier until moving to Bloomington in 1963.

Besides his widow he is survived by three sons, Randy, 8, Timmy, 7, and Robert, 6, as well as Vicky Velasquez, a sister of the widow, who has lived with the family for eight years. Also surviving are the parents, two sisters and one brother. He was buried in the Montpelier City Cemetery.