Dismore, Francis Elmo
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. 9 September 1960
Francis Elmo Dismore, 49, of Veedersburg, a plumber, died unexpectedly while at work at noon Friday (Sept. 2, 1960) on a building at the Purdue campus in Lafayette.
According to the latest information, a cause of death has not yet been determined by the Tippecanoe County Coroner's office. Death was at first attributed to electrical shock, and later to a coronary thrombosis. The results from a post mortem may require from three to six weeks.
Born at Salem, Ind., May 11, 1911, he was a son of Lewis and Rena Nixon Dismore. He was married to Minnie Hopkins in 1931 and had since lived in Veedersburg.
Surviving are his wife, his father, residing in Salem; two sons, Carl Wayne and Lee Roy both of Veedersburg; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Mae Hershberger of Veedersburg; a sister, Mrs. Marjorie Mears of Claremont; three brothers, Glenn and Jess of Scottsburg and Marvin of Lafayette, and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his mother and a brother.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Sterling Christian Church, Veedersburg Masonic Lodge 491, American Legion of Veedersburg and Low 12 Club of Wallace.
Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Sterling Christian Church, the Rev. Jack Miller Officiating. Burial was in Waynetown
Masonic Cemetery. - jz
Source: Jackson County Banner Wed Sept 14, 1960 p 1
Funeral rites were held Monday of last week at Veedersburg followed by burial in the Masonic Cemetery at Waynetown for Francis Dismore of Veedersburg, a brother of Glen Dismore of Vallonia who was electrocuted the previous Friday Sept 2 at his work at Purdue University, Lafayette. Mr. Dismore, a plumber by trade was using an electric drill when it shorted out. He was wet with perspiration and had his arm resting on a pipe. A fellow worker quickly released the drill but Mr. Dismore was dead. A native of Washington County, he was born and reared in ___ and was a WW II veteran and a Mason. The widow, Mrs. Minnie Hopkins Dismore and three children: Carl Wayne and Leroy Dismore and a daughter, Mrs. Ida May Hurschburger all of near Veedersburg survive as do the father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dismore of the New Salem community, the brother in Vallonia, two other brothers, Jesse Dismore of Austin and Morrison Dismore of Lafayette and a sister, Mrs. Marjorie Meer of Clearmont.