Parsons, W. Va. - The news of the death of her husband in a automobile accident yesterday afternoon proved fatal to a local resident as she collapsed and died shortly after being admitted to Tucker County Hospital.
Jack Bodkin, an employee of the Armour Leather Company, here, was fatally injured about 4:45 p.m. when his car left U.S. Route 33 about seven miles east of Elkins, and plunged down a 75-foot embankment.
He was traveling alone.
Several motorists, including Frank Weimer, Elkins High School coach, administered first aid but Bodkin died before an ambulance arrived at the scene.
When W. Va. State Police told Mrs. Grace Bodkin, about 60, that her husband had died, she collapsed.
She died about ten minutes after her admission to the local hospital.
The Bodkins leave two sons, Blake and Harold Bodkin, both of Parsons, and three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Stephenson, New York City, and Miss Belva Bodkin and Mrs. Helen Oaster, both of Parsons.
Evening Times - July 20, 1953
Jack Bodkin, an employee of the Armour Leather Company, here, was fatally injured about 4:45 p.m. when his car left U.S. Route 33 about seven miles east of Elkins, and plunged down a 75-foot embankment.
He was traveling alone.
Several motorists, including Frank Weimer, Elkins High School coach, administered first aid but Bodkin died before an ambulance arrived at the scene.
When W. Va. State Police told Mrs. Grace Bodkin, about 60, that her husband had died, she collapsed.
She died about ten minutes after her admission to the local hospital.
The Bodkins leave two sons, Blake and Harold Bodkin, both of Parsons, and three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Stephenson, New York City, and Miss Belva Bodkin and Mrs. Helen Oaster, both of Parsons.
Evening Times - July 20, 1953
Parsons, W. Va. - The news of the death of her husband in a automobile accident yesterday afternoon proved fatal to a local resident as she collapsed and died shortly after being admitted to Tucker County Hospital.
Jack Bodkin, an employee of the Armour Leather Company, here, was fatally injured about 4:45 p.m. when his car left U.S. Route 33 about seven miles east of Elkins, and plunged down a 75-foot embankment.
He was traveling alone.
Several motorists, including Frank Weimer, Elkins High School coach, administered first aid but Bodkin died before an ambulance arrived at the scene.
When W. Va. State Police told Mrs. Grace Bodkin, about 60, that her husband had died, she collapsed.
She died about ten minutes after her admission to the local hospital.
The Bodkins leave two sons, Blake and Harold Bodkin, both of Parsons, and three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Stephenson, New York City, and Miss Belva Bodkin and Mrs. Helen Oaster, both of Parsons.
Evening Times - July 20, 1953
Jack Bodkin, an employee of the Armour Leather Company, here, was fatally injured about 4:45 p.m. when his car left U.S. Route 33 about seven miles east of Elkins, and plunged down a 75-foot embankment.
He was traveling alone.
Several motorists, including Frank Weimer, Elkins High School coach, administered first aid but Bodkin died before an ambulance arrived at the scene.
When W. Va. State Police told Mrs. Grace Bodkin, about 60, that her husband had died, she collapsed.
She died about ten minutes after her admission to the local hospital.
The Bodkins leave two sons, Blake and Harold Bodkin, both of Parsons, and three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Stephenson, New York City, and Miss Belva Bodkin and Mrs. Helen Oaster, both of Parsons.
Evening Times - July 20, 1953
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