GASKILL, James L. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

James L. Gaskill, 32, of Waynetown was shocked fatally about noon Friday, May 4, 1973, while working on a utility pole at Wabash, Ind. He was an employee of Miller Construction Co. of Vincennes and was working on a Public Service Indiana project at Wabash. Police said Gaskill evidently touched a 7,200-volt transformer. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Wabash County Hospital. Mr. Gaskill had been a lineman since 1969. He was a former employee of R. R. Donnelley & Sons. He was a member of the West Lebanon Christian Church, Eagles Lodge of Attica, and International Brotherhood Electrical Workers 1393 of Indianapolis. He served in the US navy from 1960-64. He was born in Culver Hospital at Crawfordsville on Sept. 10, 1940, a son of Herman C. Gaskill of Rt. 1, Attica, and Frances Allen Gaskill Jordan of Rt. 2, Williamsport. He was married to Janet L. Simpson of Waynetown on Dec. 24, 1965. He was reared in the West Lebanon community and graduated from West Lebanon High School in 1958. He moved to Waynetown in 1967. Surviving with the widow and parents are a daughter Jina Lynn at home; three sons by a previous marriage, Jamie, Chris and Shane of Danville, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Hettrick of Rt. 2, Williamsport, and Sarah Freeman of Alton, Mo.; a brother, Buddy Gaskill of Attica; a step-brother, Lucky Gordon of West Lebanon, and four step-sisters, Mrs. Carroll Murphy of Veedersburg, Mrs. Sudie Oder of Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Nancy Larson of Otterbein, and Mrs. Janie Wann of Kingman. Services Monday afternoon at Thomas-Servies Funeral Home with Rev. Steve Malone officiating. Burial was in West Lebanon cemetery. - jlr