Cromwell, Ind.-His family, friends, and associates will remember 87-year-old Nellis D. Kunce, who was tragically killed Nov. 29 in an accident while helping unload a tractor-trailer at his farm supply business, as someone who never wanted to quit working. The founder and owner of Kunce Brothers, a fertilizer, farming, truck, and grain elevator business, he apparently got too close to the rear wheels of the truck while it was moving and was run over by the wheels. Kunce died instantly, according to the Noble County Sheriff’s Department. His son Rodger described Kunce as one of the “old-timers who was all work and no play. He was involved in the business right up to the end. He worked all his life. That’s all he knew.” In fact, his son said, Kunce drove a rig for the business up until about two years ago. The morning he died, Kunce had a spreader full of fertilizer attached to a pickup truck, all ready for his son to drive to a customer. Kunce is also survived by another son, Doug Kunce, and his wife, Rosetta Kunce, 84.
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