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Mt Vernon man dies after pattern shop accident
David Lawrence Jenkins 61 of Mt Vernon died minutes after a pattern shop accident at the G Co plant. While measuring a circular pattern with a wheel straight edge the tool snapped into the lathe, striking his neck. He collapsed, doctors and ambulance men arrived quickly but he could not be saved. Jenkins, longtime pattern maker and carpenter, left a wife and one daughter Mrs Shellenbarger. Funeral set Friday at 1:30 p m at his McKenzie street home with Rev J A Long officiating. Burial in Mound View cemetery. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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David Lawrance Jenkins
Mt. Vernon
G. Cooper Co
Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Edward Vernon
Lon Robinson
Robinson
Jenking
Vernon
B Deeley
Dr. Deeley
Miller & O'Bryan
Lon
North McKenzie Street
Shellenbarger
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
David ‘Lawrence Jenkins
Liberty Township
David Jenkins
Cooper Plant
Heig
Nellie Jenkins
William Shellenbarger
Mount Vernon
McKenzie Street
J. A. Long
Vine Street
Church of Christ
Mound View Cemetery