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- Bellmon Services Held at Billings
Billings – Funeral services for Irvin Bellmon, 17 year of youth of Billings who was killed by lightning Monday afternoon, were held Wednesday afternoon in the Billings First Methodist church. Services were in charge of the Rev. R.S. Baird, pastor of the First Christian church. A mixed quartet composed of Mrs. Opal Daniels, Mrs. Hazel manning, W.W. Warner and Mr. Boley, sang.
Active pallbearers were Bellmon’s classmates of the 1940 graduating class of the Billings high school.
Burial was in the Union cemetery under the direction of the O.W. Long funeral home.
Bellmon was killed Monday afternoon about 5:30 o’clock, when struck by a bolt of lightning during an electrical rain storm while he and two companions, Pete Lively and Linley Casebier, were seeking shelter in a barn on the Lively farm.
He had attended Bible school at the First Methodist church and was a member of the Billings chapter of Future Farmers of America and one of the 67 junior master farmers chosen by the F.F.A. committee at Stillwater in April.
Bellmon was also a member of the local F.F.A. judging team and with four companions had attended the judging contest of the vocational agriculture department at Turner ranch at Sulphur, July 6.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Bellmon; one older brother, Henry who is a student at A.&M. colleges, two younger brothers, Randall and Shelton of the home; six half-sisters, two half-brothers and other relatives.
The Ponca City News, Ponca City, Oklahoma. Friday, 26 July 1940, page 2.
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- Farm Youth Killed by Lightning Bolt
Two Other Knocked Unconscious During Storm Late Monday
Billings – Irvin Bellmon, 17-year-old farm youth, was killed and two of his companions knocked unconscious by lightning Monday afternoon when it struck the barn on the Pete Lively farm, eight miles southeast of here.
Lively, only of the group, received serious burns on the side. Linely Casebier, the third member of the group, was not injured.
A pulmotor squad from Perry was called but efforts to revive Bellmon failed.
The three had been threshing during the day. When the rainstorm started, they sought shelter in the barn. They were discovered by other threshers after the lightning struck.
Bellmon lived on a farm a mile north of the Lively place with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Bellmon. He was graduated from the Billings high school this spring and was a junior master farmer.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by three brothers, Henry, Sheldon and Randall, all of the home place; two half-brothers and six half-sisters.
Funeral arrangements are being completed by the O.W. Long funeral home of Billings.
The Ponca City News, Ponca City, Oklahoma. Tuesday, 22 July 1940, page 2.
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