Patricia Bathke
Wells – From time-to-time, life likes to pull the rug out from underneath a person. But, sometimes life likes to pull out the rug HARD from underneath a person…and generally without warning. You fall flat on your back and feel paralyzed. You hurt in ways you never knew you could. Not only that, but you can’t breathe…you can’t get up. All you’re left to do is wonder, “How am I going to get through this? Where do I even begin? WHY did this happen?” On Wednesday, life pulled that rug out from under our entire family in a way that we never knew was even possible. The good Lord took our mom to be with Him, and we keep thinking over and over, “Why her? How is this fair to any of us that loved her?”
Faribault County crash happened Wednesday afternoon.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 6:44 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
FARIBAULT COUNTY, Minn. – One person was killed and two injured Wednesday afternoon in a collision in southern Minnesota.
It took place just after 1:30 pm in Faribault County. The Minnesota State Patrol says James Wayne Bathke, 69 of Wells, was driving south on Highway 22 and Michael Ray Johnson, 62 of Elmore, was northbound on the same road when they crashed at the intersection with 240th Street.
The State Patrol says both drivers suffered non-life threatening injuries and a passenger in Bathke’s vehicle, Patricia Kay Bathke, 67 of Wells, died.
Minnesota Lake Police Department, Wells Police Department, Faribault County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota Lake ambulance and fire, and Wells ambulance all assisted with this collision.