LIGHTNING KILLS ATLANTA FARMER
ATLANTA, Ill. (AP)—J. Alex Hoblit, 48-year-year-old member of a pioneer central Illinois farm family, was killed by lightning Thursday in a field of his farm.
Hoblit was struck from the seat of a tractor while he was operating a sprayer. He was pronounced dead at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Hoblit was an owner of the Hoblit Feed Company, and a director of the Atlanta National Bank. His widow, brothers Franklin and Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Wertheim, all of Atlanta, survive him.
Source: "Galesburg Register-Mail" Galesburg, Illinois, May 22, 1959, p. 14.
Date of Death: May 21, 1959
ATLANTA, Ill. (AP)—J. Alex Hoblit, 48-year-year-old member of a pioneer central Illinois farm family, was killed by lightning Thursday in a field of his farm.
Hoblit was struck from the seat of a tractor while he was operating a sprayer. He was pronounced dead at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Hoblit was an owner of the Hoblit Feed Company, and a director of the Atlanta National Bank. His widow, brothers Franklin and Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Wertheim, all of Atlanta, survive him.
Source: "Galesburg Register-Mail" Galesburg, Illinois, May 22, 1959, p. 14.
Date of Death: May 21, 1959
LIGHTNING KILLS ATLANTA FARMER
ATLANTA, Ill. (AP)—J. Alex Hoblit, 48-year-year-old member of a pioneer central Illinois farm family, was killed by lightning Thursday in a field of his farm.
Hoblit was struck from the seat of a tractor while he was operating a sprayer. He was pronounced dead at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Hoblit was an owner of the Hoblit Feed Company, and a director of the Atlanta National Bank. His widow, brothers Franklin and Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Wertheim, all of Atlanta, survive him.
Source: "Galesburg Register-Mail" Galesburg, Illinois, May 22, 1959, p. 14.
Date of Death: May 21, 1959
ATLANTA, Ill. (AP)—J. Alex Hoblit, 48-year-year-old member of a pioneer central Illinois farm family, was killed by lightning Thursday in a field of his farm.
Hoblit was struck from the seat of a tractor while he was operating a sprayer. He was pronounced dead at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Hoblit was an owner of the Hoblit Feed Company, and a director of the Atlanta National Bank. His widow, brothers Franklin and Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Wertheim, all of Atlanta, survive him.
Source: "Galesburg Register-Mail" Galesburg, Illinois, May 22, 1959, p. 14.
Date of Death: May 21, 1959
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