Notes |
- K.K. McAllister, 51, Railroad Employe; Dies in Decatur
Kenneth K. McAllister, 51, 900 East Logan street, died at 6 o'clock last night in the Wabash Hospital at Decatur. Mr. McAllister, a life-long resident of Moberly, sustained a fracture to his pelvis three weeks ago while working on a roof at the home of C.L. Taylor, 316 South Ault street.
Mr. McAllister slipped as he was attempting to climb from a scaffold onto the roof and fell a distance of 17 feet.
He was a bridge and building carpenter for the Wabash Railroad for 25 years, a member of First Christian Church and a member of the brotherhood of maintenance and ways.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters, the Misses Shirley and Deloris McAllister of the home; his mother, Mrs. C.C. McAllister, Moberly; four brothers, Harold, Warren and Clay McAllister, Moberly, and Ted McAllister, Cairo; and two sisters, Mrs. Jim Carter, Moberly, and Mrs. James Wilson, Frederick, Okla.
The body is at the Caler Funeral Home where services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Raymond Gibson, minister of the Union Avenue Christian Church.
Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.
Moberly Monitor-Index and Moberly Evening Democrat, Moberly, Missouri. Monday, 9 October 1961.
[5, 6]
|