Bloomington (Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, June 21, 1928, p. 7. Funerals of Four Men Killed by Lightning Thomas And Otto Hacker Laid to Rest in Vahalla After Double Services at The Home of The Aged Parents. Deckard Funeral to Be Held Friday at Sullivan-And Holt to Be Buried at Greene County Chapel. As a climax to the awful tragedy by lightning resulting in the instant death of four men, four funerals were held today that of Kenneth Deckard from the home in Sullivan where a wife and child survive, also the body of James Holt interred at Greene County Chapel, where services were held this afternoon in charge of Rev. Wite who conducts mission work in this city. The burial of Thomas Hacker and Otto Hacker, two brothers, was this afternoon and was a double funeral. The services were at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hacker on north Jackson street, who were the parents and there was a very large attendance, especially of working men, and also they had many relatives. Beautiful summer flowers were strewn about both caskets in the modest little home where overwhelming grief had come so sudden. The burial was in charge of the Rev. Joseph Campbell and one set of pall bearers carried both bodies to the two open graves at Vanhalla [sic] park, they were Glen Baugh, Harry Jones, Ivan Tincher, and Ernest, Ray and James Higgins.