10/17/1904 - 1118/28/1957
Handwritten-Wed. Aug. 28, 1957
Portland Man , In Sewer Pit Mishap, Dies
PORTLAND—Waldo Spade, 52, Portland, who was injured in a sewer pit mishap
Monday, died at 5 a.m. today in Jay County Hospital.
Spade sustained
a skull fracture, a compound fracture of the left leg and other injuries
when he slipped and fell from a ladder 15 feet into the pit at the new
sewage treatment plant southwest of here.
He was working with Floyd
Elenberger who was down in the pit. Thinking that he was being overcome by
gas, Elenberger called to Spade for help.
In rushing to his fellow
employee’s assistance, Spade slipped and fell to the bottom of the pit. He
brushed Elenberger while falling and caused him to sustain a cut over the
right eye.
Elenberger climbed out of the pit and summoned firemen and
an ambulance.
Spade, a native of Portland leaves his widow, Latresha;
a daughter, Mrs. George Shepherd, Portland; two grandchildren; his mother,
Mrs. Lucy Haines, Portland, and a sister, Mrs. A. B. Churchill, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Spade was a member of the Moose and Eagles Lodges.
Friends may call at the Baird Funeral Home, where the Rev. J. H. Nall
will officiate at services at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Green Park
Cemetery.
(Green Park Cem., Portland, Jay County, Indiana)
Adams County (IN) Historical Museum
1955 March-April
1958 Scrapbook, image 116
Transcribed by
Janice Vasilovski
Contributed by Margie Roop Pearce
Buried in Green Park Cemetery