Philip Donald Hendershot was born on February 9, 1931, in Roseau County, Minnesota. He was the son of Howard Lake and Iris Leone Fauvre Hendershot.
Philip had three siblings: Dorothy Erma Hendershot; Maynard Roy Hendershot; and Lucille Opal Hendershot.
The Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) 13 December 1954, Monday, page 1
A marriage license was issued and published in the above newspaper: Philip D. Hendershot, 23, Roseau, Minnesota; Miss Martha M. Lawson, 22, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
They had two daughters and three sons. They also had four grandchildren by the time his widow died in 2016, according to her obituary.
The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) 20 November 1964, Friday page 3
Airman Killed by Hangar Door
DULUTH, Minn. – (UPI) – S-Sgt. Philip D. Hendershot, 33, was crushed to death beneath a heavy hangar door at the Air Force base here Thursday when the locking mechanism on the overhead door broke.
An Air Force spokesman said [S-Sgt.] Hendershot was assigned to the base rescue center.
He said the door of a hangar housing helicopters was operated by a counterweight device. A bolt holding the counterweights apparently snapped and the crashed down on the sergeant, killing him.
[S-Sgt.] Hendershot was a native of Roseau, Minnesota.
Philip Donald Hendershot was born on February 9, 1931, in Roseau County, Minnesota. He was the son of Howard Lake and Iris Leone Fauvre Hendershot.
Philip had three siblings: Dorothy Erma Hendershot; Maynard Roy Hendershot; and Lucille Opal Hendershot.
The Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) 13 December 1954, Monday, page 1
A marriage license was issued and published in the above newspaper: Philip D. Hendershot, 23, Roseau, Minnesota; Miss Martha M. Lawson, 22, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
They had two daughters and three sons. They also had four grandchildren by the time his widow died in 2016, according to her obituary.
The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) 20 November 1964, Friday page 3
Airman Killed by Hangar Door
DULUTH, Minn. – (UPI) – S-Sgt. Philip D. Hendershot, 33, was crushed to death beneath a heavy hangar door at the Air Force base here Thursday when the locking mechanism on the overhead door broke.
An Air Force spokesman said [S-Sgt.] Hendershot was assigned to the base rescue center.
He said the door of a hangar housing helicopters was operated by a counterweight device. A bolt holding the counterweights apparently snapped and the crashed down on the sergeant, killing him.
[S-Sgt.] Hendershot was a native of Roseau, Minnesota.
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