FATHER OF 2 DIES IN FALL AT SEMINARY
Contractor Slips While Inspecting Gym Roof.
John B. Huffman, 23-year-old general manager of the Roseland General Roofing & Insulating Co., was injured fatally Monday afternoon when he fell head first 25 feet to ta concrete floor at the Moreau Seminary construction site on the University of Notre Dame campus.
Huffman, father of two daughters, who lived at 1001 E. Chippewa Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at 3 o'clock at St. Joseph Hospital. He suffered a basal skull fracture in the fall from the snow-slickened roof.
The unwitnessed fall resulted in broken wrists, apparently suffered, investigators said, when Huffman put out his hands to break his fall. Deuputy Coroner Dr. Joseph S. Stratigos ruled the death accidental.
Inspecting Gymnasium Roof.
Alan Little, job superintendent for the roofing company, said Huffman was inspecting work on top of what is to be the seminary's new gymnasium at the east end of the construction site. He apparently slipped and pitched through a skylight hole about three feet square that was covered with plastic, workers said.
The accident went unnoticed until Wilmer Bragg, a Roseland Roofing employee who was on the ground level, turned from his work to see Huffman lying on the concrete floor. There had been an outcry.
Bragg and several other employees ran to Huffman's aid. One of them called a private ambulance. Huffman appeared to the still alive when taken from the scene, workers said.
Snow Makes Roof Slippery.
Little said Huffman was walking on a section of steel that was wet and slippery from light snow. Ten men who just completed a project on the roof related they saw Huffman climb a ladder as they descended.
Huffman's father, John J., 114 Dixieway North, is owner and president of the roofing firm. He was not present when the accident occurred.
The new seminary is being built near the site of the present Moreau Seminary. It is located about one-half mile east of U.S. 31 on Douglass Rd.
Young Huffman was a 1956 graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette. He attended Greene Township elementary and high schools.
He was born in Greene Twp. Oct. 9, 1934. In South Bend on July 30, 1955, he married Claudette Ballard, who survives. Also surviving are the two daughters, Debra Lynn, 18 months, and Susan Gail, 6 months, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huffman, of South Bend, and a grandfather, C. L. Huffman, of South Bend.
Huffman was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Purdue Alumni Assn. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home. Services will be held in the church at 10 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Daniel Fowler, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Tuesday, January 21, 1958.
Contractor Slips While Inspecting Gym Roof.
John B. Huffman, 23-year-old general manager of the Roseland General Roofing & Insulating Co., was injured fatally Monday afternoon when he fell head first 25 feet to ta concrete floor at the Moreau Seminary construction site on the University of Notre Dame campus.
Huffman, father of two daughters, who lived at 1001 E. Chippewa Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at 3 o'clock at St. Joseph Hospital. He suffered a basal skull fracture in the fall from the snow-slickened roof.
The unwitnessed fall resulted in broken wrists, apparently suffered, investigators said, when Huffman put out his hands to break his fall. Deuputy Coroner Dr. Joseph S. Stratigos ruled the death accidental.
Inspecting Gymnasium Roof.
Alan Little, job superintendent for the roofing company, said Huffman was inspecting work on top of what is to be the seminary's new gymnasium at the east end of the construction site. He apparently slipped and pitched through a skylight hole about three feet square that was covered with plastic, workers said.
The accident went unnoticed until Wilmer Bragg, a Roseland Roofing employee who was on the ground level, turned from his work to see Huffman lying on the concrete floor. There had been an outcry.
Bragg and several other employees ran to Huffman's aid. One of them called a private ambulance. Huffman appeared to the still alive when taken from the scene, workers said.
Snow Makes Roof Slippery.
Little said Huffman was walking on a section of steel that was wet and slippery from light snow. Ten men who just completed a project on the roof related they saw Huffman climb a ladder as they descended.
Huffman's father, John J., 114 Dixieway North, is owner and president of the roofing firm. He was not present when the accident occurred.
The new seminary is being built near the site of the present Moreau Seminary. It is located about one-half mile east of U.S. 31 on Douglass Rd.
Young Huffman was a 1956 graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette. He attended Greene Township elementary and high schools.
He was born in Greene Twp. Oct. 9, 1934. In South Bend on July 30, 1955, he married Claudette Ballard, who survives. Also surviving are the two daughters, Debra Lynn, 18 months, and Susan Gail, 6 months, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huffman, of South Bend, and a grandfather, C. L. Huffman, of South Bend.
Huffman was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Purdue Alumni Assn. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home. Services will be held in the church at 10 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Daniel Fowler, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Tuesday, January 21, 1958.
FATHER OF 2 DIES IN FALL AT SEMINARY
Contractor Slips While Inspecting Gym Roof.
John B. Huffman, 23-year-old general manager of the Roseland General Roofing & Insulating Co., was injured fatally Monday afternoon when he fell head first 25 feet to ta concrete floor at the Moreau Seminary construction site on the University of Notre Dame campus.
Huffman, father of two daughters, who lived at 1001 E. Chippewa Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at 3 o'clock at St. Joseph Hospital. He suffered a basal skull fracture in the fall from the snow-slickened roof.
The unwitnessed fall resulted in broken wrists, apparently suffered, investigators said, when Huffman put out his hands to break his fall. Deuputy Coroner Dr. Joseph S. Stratigos ruled the death accidental.
Inspecting Gymnasium Roof.
Alan Little, job superintendent for the roofing company, said Huffman was inspecting work on top of what is to be the seminary's new gymnasium at the east end of the construction site. He apparently slipped and pitched through a skylight hole about three feet square that was covered with plastic, workers said.
The accident went unnoticed until Wilmer Bragg, a Roseland Roofing employee who was on the ground level, turned from his work to see Huffman lying on the concrete floor. There had been an outcry.
Bragg and several other employees ran to Huffman's aid. One of them called a private ambulance. Huffman appeared to the still alive when taken from the scene, workers said.
Snow Makes Roof Slippery.
Little said Huffman was walking on a section of steel that was wet and slippery from light snow. Ten men who just completed a project on the roof related they saw Huffman climb a ladder as they descended.
Huffman's father, John J., 114 Dixieway North, is owner and president of the roofing firm. He was not present when the accident occurred.
The new seminary is being built near the site of the present Moreau Seminary. It is located about one-half mile east of U.S. 31 on Douglass Rd.
Young Huffman was a 1956 graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette. He attended Greene Township elementary and high schools.
He was born in Greene Twp. Oct. 9, 1934. In South Bend on July 30, 1955, he married Claudette Ballard, who survives. Also surviving are the two daughters, Debra Lynn, 18 months, and Susan Gail, 6 months, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huffman, of South Bend, and a grandfather, C. L. Huffman, of South Bend.
Huffman was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Purdue Alumni Assn. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home. Services will be held in the church at 10 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Daniel Fowler, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Tuesday, January 21, 1958.
Contractor Slips While Inspecting Gym Roof.
John B. Huffman, 23-year-old general manager of the Roseland General Roofing & Insulating Co., was injured fatally Monday afternoon when he fell head first 25 feet to ta concrete floor at the Moreau Seminary construction site on the University of Notre Dame campus.
Huffman, father of two daughters, who lived at 1001 E. Chippewa Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at 3 o'clock at St. Joseph Hospital. He suffered a basal skull fracture in the fall from the snow-slickened roof.
The unwitnessed fall resulted in broken wrists, apparently suffered, investigators said, when Huffman put out his hands to break his fall. Deuputy Coroner Dr. Joseph S. Stratigos ruled the death accidental.
Inspecting Gymnasium Roof.
Alan Little, job superintendent for the roofing company, said Huffman was inspecting work on top of what is to be the seminary's new gymnasium at the east end of the construction site. He apparently slipped and pitched through a skylight hole about three feet square that was covered with plastic, workers said.
The accident went unnoticed until Wilmer Bragg, a Roseland Roofing employee who was on the ground level, turned from his work to see Huffman lying on the concrete floor. There had been an outcry.
Bragg and several other employees ran to Huffman's aid. One of them called a private ambulance. Huffman appeared to the still alive when taken from the scene, workers said.
Snow Makes Roof Slippery.
Little said Huffman was walking on a section of steel that was wet and slippery from light snow. Ten men who just completed a project on the roof related they saw Huffman climb a ladder as they descended.
Huffman's father, John J., 114 Dixieway North, is owner and president of the roofing firm. He was not present when the accident occurred.
The new seminary is being built near the site of the present Moreau Seminary. It is located about one-half mile east of U.S. 31 on Douglass Rd.
Young Huffman was a 1956 graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette. He attended Greene Township elementary and high schools.
He was born in Greene Twp. Oct. 9, 1934. In South Bend on July 30, 1955, he married Claudette Ballard, who survives. Also surviving are the two daughters, Debra Lynn, 18 months, and Susan Gail, 6 months, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Huffman, of South Bend, and a grandfather, C. L. Huffman, of South Bend.
Huffman was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Purdue Alumni Assn. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home. Services will be held in the church at 10 a.m. Thursday with Rev. Daniel Fowler, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.
Published in The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) - Tuesday, January 21, 1958.
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