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Glasco Sun, Jan. 5, 1933, page 1:
DEATH IN AN EXPLOSION
Melvin Duvall Fatally Injured When Pressure Tank Blows Up
Melvin Duvall, 22 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Duvall of Arion township was fatally injured in an explosion at the Duvall farm last Saturday. Melvin was working in the repair shop and was just finishing recharging the air compressor tank, which was used for fixing tires in the shop, when the tank blew up, inflicting injuries which caused the young man's death a few hours later at the hospital in Concordia, to which he had been rushed following the...
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Glasco Sun, Jan. 5, 1933, page 1:
DEATH IN AN EXPLOSION
Melvin Duvall Fatally Injured When Pressure Tank Blows Up
Melvin Duvall, 22 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Duvall of Arion township was fatally injured in an explosion at the Duvall farm last Saturday. Melvin was working in the repair shop and was just finishing recharging the air compressor tank, which was used for fixing tires in the shop, when the tank blew up, inflicting injuries which caused the young man's death a few hours later at the hospital in Concordia, to which he had been rushed following the accident.
Funeral services, which were very largely attended, were held in the Methodist Church at Glasco Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Attree Smith. Interment was in Glasco Cemetery.
MELVIN CALEB DUVALL
Melvin Caleb Duvall was born at the home in Arion township, September 21, 1910, and died at the St. Joseph Hospital in Concordia, Kansas, December 31, 1932. Aged 22 years, 3 months and 10 days.
He attended school at Far View District, No. 67, graduating in June 1926. He was kind to all little children, and a favorite with his school mates and teachers, and was liked by all who knew him.
He was associated with his father on the farm until the spring of 1930 when he engaged in the general blacksmith business here. He was a pains-taking and efficient workman, and built up for himself a good business.
In August 1932 with his father and mother he visited Estes Park, Colorado, a trip which he greatly enjoyed, little realizing how soon he would be called upon to take the long, long trail into the great unknown, leaving all who knew him to mourn his going.
His marriage to Miss Wilma Mossburg was to have been solemnized at the close of the holiday season.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Duvall; two sisters, Mrs. Gaylord Pilcher of Concordia and Mrs. Glen Buckland of Glasco; two brothers, Otho and Lester of Concordia and two sisters-in-law; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Rathbun of Lincoln, Kansas and Mrs. Nellie Duvall of Simpson; four nieces and three nephews, and a host of sorrowing friends and neighbors. He will be sadly missed by his friends. |
