George Blaine

BLAINE, TRAUL, SIX, CARSON, GLASGOW, CHESTNUT, LEWIS, CHAPMAN, MENDELL

Posted By: Deborah Barker (email)
Date: 10/14/2023 at 15:09:56

Jan 9, 1957
George Richard Blaine, 30, died in a mine fall at 330 pm Wednesday at the Globe mine west of Ottumwa. He fell 130 feet.
Ed Hawks, owner of the mine, told Coroner Gorden Traul that Blaine fell from the top of the tipple to the bottom of the shaft. A mine car, weighing more than half a ton, broke loose and fell on him. Blaine and John Six were working on a cable on top of the mine tipple. It was snowing. Notification was made to Mrs Blaine, whose home was near the Milwaukee terminal. Blaine was born in Memphis, Mo., August 6, 1928, the son of Alfred & Mary Blaine. A veteran of the Korean war, coming to Ottumwa after separation from the service. He and Berry Chestnut were married June20, 1945, at Ft Madison. There children are James 10, Frank 8, Beverly 7, Richard 6, Larry 5, Karen Sue 4.
Other survivors, 3 sisters, Mrs Austin Carson, Mrs Ernest Glasgow, Mrs Robert Chestnut of Ottumwa. two half-brothers, Russell Lewis of Wever, and J C Lewis of Keokuk. 2 half-sisters Mrs Sid Chapman, Mrs Paul Mendell.
Burial at Ft Madison.