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- [S927] Obituary.
CALDWELL - A 13-year-old boy was fatally hurt Sunday [15 Nov 1959] when
he jumped from a farm tractor he apparently thought was overturning and was struck
on the head by an attached earthmoving blade.
Noble County Sheriff Donald Conaway said David Crock, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sebastian Crock of Pine Lake on Caldwell Route 3 apparently lost control of the tractor
when it struck a large rock on the berm of a township road a mile south of here.
He was discovered by his father about 4 p.m. Conaway estimated the accident had
occurred about 20 minutes before. The sheriff said the boy apparently leaped from the
tractor, thinking it was going to upset. The vehicle continued to run, however, and stopped
against an embankment about 20 feet farther down the road. The sheriff said the youth
was driving the tractor to a farm pasture to round up his father?s cattle. Dr. N. S. Reed,
county coroner, said the young Crock apparently died of a broken neck and a skull fracture.
A seventh-grader at the Caldwell school, he was born Nov. 4, 1946, near Caldwell. His
mother is the former Freda Noll. He was a member of St. Philomena Catholic Church where
he served as an altar boy. He served at the 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.
In addition to his parents, he leaves two brothers, Kenneth and Fred stationed with the
National Guard at Fort Knox, Ky.; four sisters, Mrs. Norbert Smithberger of Reynolds-
burg, Mrs. Vernon Schott of Bolivar, Deborah and Barbara of the home; his grandfather,
Alex Noll of Caldwell Route 4.
The body was removed to the Estadt Funeral Home here where the altar boys will recite
the rosary at 7:30 p.m. today and where parishioners rosary will be recited at 7:30 pm.
Tuesday. Services will be conducted in the St. Philomena Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Wed-
nesday by Rev. Fr. Stephen J. Pekalla. Burial will be in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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