By Lori EhdeFuneral services for 7-year-old Josie Dilly were Wednesday Morning in Luverne Christian Reformed Church . "She was the most beautiful little person I’ve ever known," said Jared Pap, one of three uncles who shared memories of her during the service. "I’ll never forget her smile and her wave as she was leaving for the field that day. She was so happy."She was killed Saturday in a collision between a tractor and train at New Vision Co-op grain elevator near Hills.Dilly, daughter of daughter of Stacy and Nicole (Pap) Dilly, Luverne, was riding with her uncle Jonathan Pap, who was hauling grain for his family’s farm operation north of Beaver Creek.Pap, Luverne, was driving a John Deere 4440 pulling two loaded wagons as he approached the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks.The tractor was heading west on the rural road leading to the elevator when it collided with a train traveling north at about 35 mph in a 40 mph zone."I guess I thought the train was parked," Pap said Tuesday. By the time he knew the train was approaching it was too late to stop."I knew the front wheels were just on the tracks, but I thought it would hit us and move us over. I didn’t think it would rip the front end off. … The impact knocked us both out of the cab."Dilly was thrown from the cab and was trapped under the tractor. She was pronounced dead at the scene.Pap was taken by Rock County Ambulance to Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, where he was treated for cuts and bruises and was later released."We both fell through the door. She slipped right straight down … We landed pretty close together," Pap said.He said that his niece was doing what she loved most the day that she died."She rode in the tractor with us (her uncles) all the time. With me, or Jared or Jamie or Dad," Pap said. "That day, we were talking the whole way, about school about everything. …We were having so much fun. She was putting corn on my head and laughing."He said those final moments burned a sweet image in his memory. "I guess I’m glad I was with her, I just wish I would have stopped earlier," Pap said.The front end of the tractor was sheared off by passing rail cars. The train engineer reportedly told rescue workers he could tell that the tractor and wagons weren’t going to be able to stop, but that he couldn’t stop the train either.Nearby resident Ron Hup said he could hear the train whistle and the steel screeching to stop.The Rock County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the crash at about 11 a.m. and responded to the call along with the Hills Fire Department, Luverne Fire and Rescue, Rock County Hazardous Materials and the Minnesota State Patrol.Friends and neighbors of the Pap family have been working to help finish the harvest.