COLE, Wayne Wilson - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Unknown newspaper - article found in scrapbook of obituaries collected by Fauniel Hershberger, - typed by: GA

Perrysville, Ind. - Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home in Covington for Wayne Wilson Cole, 58, of Perrysville Route 1. He died Tuesday morning (Oct. 17, 1972) at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. The Rev. Dale Cadman will officiate. Burial will be in Lower Mound Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Cole was burned over 80 per cent of his body in an accident at the Vermillion County Highway Garage at Summit Grove Monday afternoon. A spokesman for the county highway department said that Mr. Cole and Jim Sims of Clinton were working on a truck's gasoline line when it ignited from a nearby stove and Cole was sprayed with burning gasoline. Mr. Cole was born July 4, 1914, near Perrysville, the son of John H. and Lilly E. Adam Cole. On Nov. 19, 1938, he married Martha Boswell, who survives. A life resident of the Perrysville area, he was a farmer and had been employed by the Vermillion County Highway Department for the past 13 years. Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Elaine) Bartlett of Orlando, Fla., and Mrs. Carl (Linda) Swim of Covington Route 2; a son, James of Indianapolis; four sisters, Mrs. Tessie Pearman of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Norman (Mary) Skinner of Perrysville Route 1, Mrs. Jess (Imalee) Delp of Tangier and Mrs. Lewis (Gladys) Allen of Covington Route 3; three brothers, Edgar of Covington Route 2, John Jr. of Bradley, Ill., and Paul of Tangier; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.