Plymouth County — (RI) — They called it a “harvest bee” as friends and neighbors brought their equipment to the fields of a Plymouth County farmer Tuesday who suffered the loss of his son in a weekend plane crash.
Thirty-six-year old Patrick Kellen was one of four people to die when the plane crashed on the way to a hunting trip. Marty Pippett helped organize the harvest bee for Kellen’s father Del.
Pippett says it only took some phone calls to line up farmers to help out.
He says he’s not surprised by the response.
The farmers all converged on a cornfield in the southeast area of Plymouth County to harvest the remaining 600 acres of corn left in the fields. Pippett says the goal was to finish the harvest before the Kellen wake scheduled for Thursday and the funeral which is scheduled for Friday.
