Printed in the Dove Creek Press 2/1965
David Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill, formerly of Dove Creek CO, was fatally injured when he was caught in a snow slide near Leadville CO., early Sunday morning, January 31, 1965. Mr. Hemphill was working at the Homestake Tunnel for Mr. Jack Bond. He was running a slusher outside the mine tunnel on the graveyard shift, when the slide started 12 hundred feet up the mountain. He did not have a chance ot excape and death was instanious.
Funeral arrangments are being made to return the body to Dove Creek. Final services will be held on Friday at 1:00 pm at the Dove Creek Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. John Carr officiating. Interment will in the Dove Creek Cemetery.
David Hemphill leaves his widow, Nita Jean (Crawford) Hemphill; five children, Leon, Rebecca, Debra, Kay, and Cliffie. His parents Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill of Farmington NM and four brothers.
David Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill, formerly of Dove Creek CO, was fatally injured when he was caught in a snow slide near Leadville CO., early Sunday morning, January 31, 1965. Mr. Hemphill was working at the Homestake Tunnel for Mr. Jack Bond. He was running a slusher outside the mine tunnel on the graveyard shift, when the slide started 12 hundred feet up the mountain. He did not have a chance ot excape and death was instanious.
Funeral arrangments are being made to return the body to Dove Creek. Final services will be held on Friday at 1:00 pm at the Dove Creek Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. John Carr officiating. Interment will in the Dove Creek Cemetery.
David Hemphill leaves his widow, Nita Jean (Crawford) Hemphill; five children, Leon, Rebecca, Debra, Kay, and Cliffie. His parents Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill of Farmington NM and four brothers.
Printed in the Dove Creek Press 2/1965
David Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill, formerly of Dove Creek CO, was fatally injured when he was caught in a snow slide near Leadville CO., early Sunday morning, January 31, 1965. Mr. Hemphill was working at the Homestake Tunnel for Mr. Jack Bond. He was running a slusher outside the mine tunnel on the graveyard shift, when the slide started 12 hundred feet up the mountain. He did not have a chance ot excape and death was instanious.
Funeral arrangments are being made to return the body to Dove Creek. Final services will be held on Friday at 1:00 pm at the Dove Creek Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. John Carr officiating. Interment will in the Dove Creek Cemetery.
David Hemphill leaves his widow, Nita Jean (Crawford) Hemphill; five children, Leon, Rebecca, Debra, Kay, and Cliffie. His parents Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill of Farmington NM and four brothers.
David Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill, formerly of Dove Creek CO, was fatally injured when he was caught in a snow slide near Leadville CO., early Sunday morning, January 31, 1965. Mr. Hemphill was working at the Homestake Tunnel for Mr. Jack Bond. He was running a slusher outside the mine tunnel on the graveyard shift, when the slide started 12 hundred feet up the mountain. He did not have a chance ot excape and death was instanious.
Funeral arrangments are being made to return the body to Dove Creek. Final services will be held on Friday at 1:00 pm at the Dove Creek Southern Baptist Church with the Rev. John Carr officiating. Interment will in the Dove Creek Cemetery.
David Hemphill leaves his widow, Nita Jean (Crawford) Hemphill; five children, Leon, Rebecca, Debra, Kay, and Cliffie. His parents Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hemphill of Farmington NM and four brothers.
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