Obits: Faulkner, Garnett, died 04/1954
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County news - April 21, 1954

MRS. FAULKNER'S FUNERAL RITES HELD THURSDAY

Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mrs. Raleigh Sallee, 
Malaga, for Mrs. Garnett Faulkner, 35, wife of J.B. Faulkner, Breathitt 
County, on Thursday afternoon, April 15 with Rev. Johnnie Dalton 
officiating.  Burial followed in the family cemetery.

Mrs. Faulkner was electrocuted while attempting to extricate her 
daughter, Lucille, 12 from a live wire entanglement.  It is reported that an 
electric wire colssed? the garden to the adjacent coal mine operated by 
J.B. Faulkner, the deceased woman's husband.  Somehow this wire had 
gotten broken and was on the ground.  The girl, who was hoeing in the 
garden, got entangled in the wire and the mother went to her assistance and 
lost her life.  The girl Lucille, after being given emergency treatment 
at Jackson was taken to a Lexington hospital where she is reported o be 
in a serious condition.

Surviving Mrs. Faulkner besides her husband and the daughter who was so 
severely burned are three sons; Jack, J.B., Jr. and Taylor and four 
other daughters; Marie Elizabeth, Joan, Shirley and Dora Belle.


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