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Lismore boy dies in snowmobile accident

By Lori EhdeFuneral services for 13-year-old Tyler Veld will be at 10:30 Friday morning at St. Anthony’s Church in Lismore.Veld, an eighth-grader at Adrian Middle School, died from injuries he sustained in a snowmobile accident Monday afternoon.He was reportedly snowmobiling with friends when he collided with a milk delivery truck while crossing Nobles County 35 one mile west of Rushmore.The accident was reported shortly after 3 p.m. and Veld was taken by ambulance to Worthington Regional Hospital and then transferred to Sioux Falls.The milk delivery truck driver, 61-year-old William Timmerman, Sibley, Iowa, was reportedly uninjured.The boy is the son of Troy and Cindy Veld, Lismore, and he has grandparents in Luverne.His maternal grandparents are Keith Smedsrud and Mary Sites, Luverne, and his great-grandfather is LeRoy Foight, also of Luverne.Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday in St. Anthony’s Church in Lismore with the family present from 4 to 8 p.m. A prayer service is planned at the church at 7 p.m.Adrian Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

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