(Radio Iowa) — Friends and neighbors are pitching in to harvest the crops of a northwest Iowa farmer who was killed in a plane crash last Friday night.  Four people lost their lives when the plane went down in Guthrie County, after the pilot suffered a heart attack. One of them was 36-year-old Patrick Kellen. Del Kellen farms in Plymouth County and is the father of Patrick Kellen. A harvesting bee has been organized for today, consisting of at least six combines, six grain carts and 16 semi trucks and trailers.

They will converge on a cornfield in the southeast area of Plymouth County helping the Kellen family harvest the remaining 600 acres of corn left in the fields. A friend of the family says they hope to finish the harvest before the wake service scheduled for Thursday and the funeral which is scheduled for Friday.