This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sandberg Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8024 Message Board Post: Tractor Accident Fatal To Civilian AFFTC, Edawrds AF Base, 6 Apr 56. Thomas C. Hudson, 59 year old civilian employee with the Air Installations Organization at Edwards AF Base, California, was killed Thursday morning when a caterpillar tractor he was driving for loading on a truck bed struck him as it fell off a trailer. Hudson, a heavy equipment operator at Edwards since 1949, was loading the tractor on a tilt trailer. The tractor slipped on the trailer skids and fell to the ground. Hudson, a resident of Rosamond for the past eight years, is survived by his wife, Louise, a son, Tom Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Wanda Sandberg. His son and daughter, both work at Edwards AF Base. Funeral services were held in Mojave under the direction of the O'Donnell Funeral Home with interment in the Mojave Cemetery. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 12 Apr 1956