Two Electrocuted In Accident Near Spur
McGee and Bohannan were members of a crew of seven who were installing the pole to bring electric power to a workshop building on the Horn farm.
According to cooperative officials, the men were preparing to drill holes in the pole for transformer brackets. The pole was flat on the ground, but as it was being lifted by winch line, the digger truck came in contact with a 7,200 volt line overhead.
McGee, who has been with the cooperative for eight years and was construction foreman, was in contact with the winch line. Bohannan was reported to have been near the truck.
Crew members and others who were not injured, took turns in administering cardio pulmonary resuscitation to the stricken men. They continued until the Dickens county ambulance arrived. The two were declared dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace, John Nay at about 10:48 a.m.
Officials reported the ambulance was on the scene in a very short time.
Funeral services for McGee, 32, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist church, Church pastor, Rev. Norris Taylor, officiated.
He and the former Lana Rape, were married in Hereford in April of 1970. They had lived in Dickens County since 1971. McGee was a native of Roaring Springs. He was a member of the Baptist church and was a Vietnam veteran.
He is survived by his wife of Spur, two sons, Jerry Dale and Kerry Nelson, both of the home; his mother, Eva Mae McGee, Lubbock; three sisters, Mrs. Novella Ratton, Lubbock; Mrs. Norena McCleaskey, Hereford and Mrs. Lorella Winn, of CA; four brothers, James McGee, Sweetwater; Virgil McGee, Anaheim, CA; John McGee, Tisomingo, OK; and Gordon McGee, Chickashaw, OK.
Pallbearers included Tom Hale, Gary Rainbolt, Charles Rainbolt, Rooster Rainbolt, Mike Griffin and Larry Taylor, Honorary pallbearers included the remaining Dickens Electric employees and Bug Moore and Kenny Carlisle.
Burial was in the Spur cemetery.
Bohannan who had been employed by the cooperative was a groundman for about a month and a half, was 24.
His funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. in the Spur Church of Christ. He was also a veteran of Vietnam and a member of the Church of Christ.
He is survived by his parents, G.L. and Dorothy Bohannan, Lubbock; one sister, Sherilyn Beal, Plano, his grandparents, Mrs. S.C. Reynolds, Spur and Mrs. J.C. Bohannan, Albuquerque, NM.
Pallbearers included Lyn Hill, Ike Dillashaw, Rickey Corder, Dwight Dilashaw, Earl Lindsey, Mike Lindsey, Richard Jones and Bentley Redding. Honarary pallbearers were all Dickens Electric employees.
Burial was in Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur, September 6, 1979
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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