Heartfelt farewell: Marshallville's Reed Hostetler was family man and 'farm boy at heart'

A Marshallville household and his assemblage are mourning the nonaccomplishment of a devoted father, loving hubby and lad and "a workplace lad astatine heart."

Stefan Reed Hostetler, 31, died successful an mishap Wednesday, March 5, astatine the household dairy workplace on Fulton Road. According to a accusation from the Marshallville Police Department, helium drowned successful a manure pit aft the tractor helium was connected tipped over.

His brothers, Aidan Hostetler and Lee Hostetler, acted rapidly successful an effort to prevention him.

“They desperately tried to prevention Reed Hostetler,” said Robyn Baer Hostetler, Reed's mother, connected Monday. “They were precise astute astir it. They tried. … I deliberation Lee possibly wanted to spell aft him, but Aidan wouldn’t fto him.”

She said a tractor was utilized to effort to find him successful the manure lagoon. “By that time, the EMTs came," said his mother, who was successful South Carolina erstwhile they got the telephone astir the accident.

As they made the agelong thrust home, she recovered solace successful the enactment from the community.

Reed Hostetler was household antheral and husbandman with a sensation for adventure

“I deliberation determination were 40 radical stationed astatine my mom’s house, praying, 40 oregon much actually,” she said. “I cognize determination were rather a fewer radical with Abby astatine the infirmary praying.”

Reed Hostetler was the hubby of Abby and begetter to their 3 children, Baer, Clarie and Ax.

His beingness revolved astir the dairy farm, wherever helium worked alongside his parents, arsenic good arsenic his siblings and wife.

“All my kids stayed astatine the farm,” Robyn Baer Hostetler said. “Every time we travel successful and we each beryllium astatine the eating country array for luncheon astatine a 12-foot table, and we capable it up.”

For Reed Hostetler, household meals were much than a interruption from work. They were a clip to reconnect.

“After we would eat, they would each get connected the floor, wrestle around, play, person conscionable immoderate bully household time. And that was highly peculiar to him," his parent said.

Beyond the farm, Reed Hostetler was ambitious and adventurous.

He hiked the full Appalachian Trail, rode bulls, a passionateness sparked by the 1994 movie" 8 Seconds," and spent months doing ngo enactment successful Thailand.

“Most radical spell determination and autumn successful emotion with the children,” Robyn Baer Hostetler said. “But the children each fell successful emotion with him.”

Community agreed successful grief and healing

From the infinitesimal connection got retired astir Reed Hostetler's decease the household was surrounded by friends and neighbors, and adjacent strangers who stepped successful to assistance successful countless ways.

“Reed Hostetler was a workplace lad astatine heart, and helium would besides truly bask astir apt his solemnisation of beingness being here,” Robyn Baer Hostetler said. “I had a squad of radical amusement up. … They conscionable took attraction of it. They conscionable cleaned that barn.”

Others arrived to hole the driveways and bring nutrient for the workplace crew.

“The magnitude of assemblage successful each aspect. It is overwhelming to beryllium conscionable truthful loved and supported. I conscionable privation to archer them, convey you," she said.

Reed Hostetler was a devoted father, a loyal person and a antheral of heavy faith.

Services connected Tuesday and Wednesday

“We cognize without a uncertainty Reed Hostetler is successful the beingness of Jesus,” his household wrote successful his obituary. “And adjacent though our hearts hurt, we cognize God is inactive good.”

Visitation volition beryllium held 3-6 p.m. Tuesday astatine L&R Dairy Farm, 12599 Fulton Road, Marshallville, which helium co-owned.

The ceremonial volition beryllium held astatine 10 a.m. Wednesday astatine the workplace with Pastor Ryan Klotzle officiating.

Support for the household tin beryllium sent to their GoFundMe.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected The Daily Record: Reed Hostetler died astatine Marshallville workplace aft tractor tipped over