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IN MEMORIAMIt's tough writing an obituary for a friend, and for ye olde Reflector, it was always with great pride that I could count him in this category. RICHARD WIGIM was one of the very first people to exhibit engines at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion at Mt. Pleasant. We're not exactly sure when he started taking a few engines to this show, but it was in the late 1950s or early 1960s at a time when gas engines were something that only a very few people tinkered with. Dick was one of this writer's first contacts with enginedom, and his enthusiasm for the hobby had a great deal to do with this writer's development as a collector of vintage engines. Richard Wigim was born March 26, ,1920 at Ardon, Iowa, the son of Robert and Nellie Rice Wigim. On September 29, 1950 he was married to Florence Small at Springdale, Iowa. Dick farmed until 1964 when he took a job with H. D. Cline & Company of West Liberty, Iowa, remaining with th... 805 of 2857 characters shown.
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