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ACE RODGERS KILLED IN MINE ACCIDENT FRI. NIGHT

Ace Grover Rodgers, age 40 years, 11 months and 27 days, was instantly killed in No. 3 mines of the Doe Run Lead Co., last Friday night. Rodgers was a car spragger and in some way a mine car jumped the track and he was pinned between the car and the wall, breaking his neck.

He leaves to mourn his death a wife; 3 children, Gladys, 18; Ruben, 16; and Leonard, 14. He also leaves one brother, Earl of Chicago; two sisters, Mrs. Frankie Shanks of St. Louis and another whose name we could not secure of West Plains, Mo.; one half sister, Mrs. Claud Mather of St. Louis besides his mother and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted at 2 P.M. Sunday afternoon at the Elvins M.E. church by Rev. Kirkendoll and remains laid to rest in Parkview cemetery.

LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. Aug. 21, 1925

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