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Submitted: 7/28/22 • Approved: 7/28/22 • Last Updated: 7/31/22 • R528134-G0-S3
February 19, 1952-June 21, 1960
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*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Funeral services were pending Wednesday morning for Virgil John Owens, Jr., 8, who was fatally injured when he was run over by a tractor on his parents' farm six miles east of Hereford Tuesday evening.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. V.J. Owens, the boy was killed when he fell from a tractor which was driven by his brother, Ronnie, 11, in a field about a quarter mile from the family home.
He reportedly fell under one of the rear wheels of the tractor and the wheel passed over an upper portion of his body.
The accident occurred at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near Joel Switch. His brother and T.J. Stancher, a hired hand, were planting maize and the boy reportedly was riding on the tractor with his older brother.
Stancher was riding on a planter behind the tractor at the time. The youth was taken to Deaf Smith County Hospital in the family car and was placed under oxygen.
Funeral services will be under the direction of Gililland Funeral Home in Hereford.
The boy was born Feb. 19, 1952, in Carnegie, Okla. His parents moved to Hereford six years ago, coming from Oklahoma.
He would have been in the second grade at Shirley Elementary School this fall.
Survivors include his parents; two brothers, Eldon and Ronnie, both of the home; two sisters, Julie of the home and Mrs. C.O. Nix of Wichita, Kans.; and grandmothers, Mrs. Ethel Jones of Stockton, Calif., and Mrs. Mabel Henry of Los Angeles.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 59 Year - No. 25, Hereford, Texas, Thursday, June 23, 1960, Page 1,2)
Contributed on 7/28/22 by neldapat
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