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JAMES H. GREER JR.Popular Alton employee dies at 52Animal Control officer is stricken at workBy LINDA N. WELLERThe TelegraphALTON — City employees were shocked and distraught to hear that a popular, fellow worker apparently suffered a fatal heart attack Friday morning at the Alton Public Works building.James H “Jeep” Greer Jr., 52, Alton assistant chief of animal control, collapsed at 7:41 a m near the bays inside the building, at 2 Emma L. Kaus LaneAn employee called 911, while Rhonda Lewis, deputy director of the Alton Park and Recreation Department, and Jim Hernandez, public works director, performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Greer until paramedics from the Alton Fire Department and Alton Memorial Ambulance Service arrived to treat him.Ambulance paramedics continued treatment as they took Greer to Alton Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:14 a.m.Madison County Coroner Steve Nonn said an autopsy was planned today because of Greer’s age and because he was stricken at the workplace. A coroner’s inquest will be held later to rule on the cause of deathGreer was an organ donor through Mid-America TransplantGreerSee EMPLOYEE, Page A7
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Alton, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 07, 2006
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