Vernon George Blood, Sr. (1891-1961)
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Vernon George Blood, Sr. (1891-1961)
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Posted: 11 May 2008 6:08PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Blood, Marlett, Stone, Rasmussen, Cheney, Reynolds, Johnson, Bernhardt
Jamestown Post-Journal – March 10, 1961
Lakewood Driver Dies In Accident
Vernon Blood Ruptures Heart Artery
Vernon G. Blood, Sr., 70, retired furniture worker and World War I veteran, was killed at 5:30 P.M. in a two car collision on ice-slickened Fairmount Avenue yesterday, 15 minutes after being involved in another traffic accident on Route 17J.
Coroner Frederick L. Hitchcock issued a verdict of accidental death at 12:10 A.M. today attributing the death of the Cottage Park, Lakewood, resident to a ruptured aorta, the heart’s main blood vessel. The rupture was caused when the crash impact threw him against the steering wheel.
Mr. Blood is Chautauqua County’s first traffic fatality of 1961 and the first since Dec. 8, 1960. The Sheriff’s Department in Mayville said the 91-day interval may be the county’s longest fatality-free period on record.
Town of Ellicott Officer Elmer H. Widlund said Mr. Blood, traveling east on Fairmount Avenue, lost control of his car near Canterbury Road, W.E., skidded into the westbound lane and sideswiped a car driven by Mrs. Alice E. Peterson, 52, of 67 Jackson Avenue, Celeron. He said both drivers were alone.
The Sheriff’s Department said the first accident, in which Mr. Blood was involved occurred about 5:15 P.M. on Route 17J near Howard Street. The driver of the other vehicle was identified as Melvin L. Shannon, 42, R.D. Bentley Avenue, Jamestown.
The Department said Mr. Blood braked to avoid a car turning in front of him and Mr. Shannon’s car; following Mr. Blood’s was unable to stop in time. Only light damage was reported to both vehicles.
Mrs. Peterson, a dietician for the Pennsylvania Gas Company, was discharged from Jamestown General Hospital after six stitches were taken to close a cut on her nose. She was taken to the hospital by the Jamestown Ambulance Service.
Officer Widlund said the impact of the crash threw Mr. Blood against the steering wheel of his car, which landed upright in a ditch on the north side of the road. He said the crash drove Mrs. Peterson’s car backward. Both vehicles were towed away.
Mr. Blood was en route to Jamestown to pick up his daughter, Miss Flossie Blood, an employee of Bigelow’s Department store.
Lakewood Police Officer Michael LaGrega, Jamestown Police Officers Robert Seastedt and Jerome Thompson and a number of Fairmount Avenue and Canterbury Road residents assisted Officer Widlund. He said one of the residents went to his home to secure salt to spread on the highway.
Mr. Blood’s death is the first from traffic causes in Chautauqua County since Dec 8, 1960, when Harold E. Kling, 51 of Jamestown was killed on the Falconer-Stillwater Road. The Sheriff’s Department said it was checking its records but believes the time between deaths is the longest it has on record.
It is the first time in more than five years Chautauqua County has been free of highway motor vehicle fatalities in January and February.
A year ago there were three highway motor vehicle fatalities in January, one in February, and three in March. The fifth fatality last March was March 2; the sixth and seventh were recorded March 14 at Ripley.
Mr. Blood was born in Russell, Pa., Jan 12, 1891, a son of the late Elmer and Bertha Marlett Blood. He spent most of his life in the Jamestown area.
On Sept. 27, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was discharged Dec 11, 1918.
Always a furniture worker, Mr. Blood was formerly employed the former Elite Furniture Company, of Jamestown.
He resided in Frewsburg area until last summer, when he moved to Cottage Park.
Mr. Blood is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Stone Blood; six other daughters and two sons, Mrs. Harry Rasmussen, of Lakewood; Mrs. Carl Cheney, of Panama; Mrs. Donald Bernhardt, Mrs. Norman Reynolds and Mrs. David Johnson of Frewsburg; Vernon G. Blood, Jr., Fentonville, and Harold L. Blood, Lakewood.
He also is survived by four brothers, Lloyd Blood, of Jamestown; Leonard Blood of Busti; Vertel Blood of Shreveport, La., and Royal Blood of Kennedy, and a sister, Mrs. Crystabelle Hitchcock, of Busti, as well as 20 grandchildren.
Funeral services are in charge of Henderson & Lincoln Funeral Home.
Lakewood Driver Dies In Accident
Vernon Blood Ruptures Heart Artery
Vernon G. Blood, Sr., 70, retired furniture worker and World War I veteran, was killed at 5:30 P.M. in a two car collision on ice-slickened Fairmount Avenue yesterday, 15 minutes after being involved in another traffic accident on Route 17J.
Coroner Frederick L. Hitchcock issued a verdict of accidental death at 12:10 A.M. today attributing the death of the Cottage Park, Lakewood, resident to a ruptured aorta, the heart’s main blood vessel. The rupture was caused when the crash impact threw him against the steering wheel.
Mr. Blood is Chautauqua County’s first traffic fatality of 1961 and the first since Dec. 8, 1960. The Sheriff’s Department in Mayville said the 91-day interval may be the county’s longest fatality-free period on record.
Town of Ellicott Officer Elmer H. Widlund said Mr. Blood, traveling east on Fairmount Avenue, lost control of his car near Canterbury Road, W.E., skidded into the westbound lane and sideswiped a car driven by Mrs. Alice E. Peterson, 52, of 67 Jackson Avenue, Celeron. He said both drivers were alone.
The Sheriff’s Department said the first accident, in which Mr. Blood was involved occurred about 5:15 P.M. on Route 17J near Howard Street. The driver of the other vehicle was identified as Melvin L. Shannon, 42, R.D. Bentley Avenue, Jamestown.
The Department said Mr. Blood braked to avoid a car turning in front of him and Mr. Shannon’s car; following Mr. Blood’s was unable to stop in time. Only light damage was reported to both vehicles.
Mrs. Peterson, a dietician for the Pennsylvania Gas Company, was discharged from Jamestown General Hospital after six stitches were taken to close a cut on her nose. She was taken to the hospital by the Jamestown Ambulance Service.
Officer Widlund said the impact of the crash threw Mr. Blood against the steering wheel of his car, which landed upright in a ditch on the north side of the road. He said the crash drove Mrs. Peterson’s car backward. Both vehicles were towed away.
Mr. Blood was en route to Jamestown to pick up his daughter, Miss Flossie Blood, an employee of Bigelow’s Department store.
Lakewood Police Officer Michael LaGrega, Jamestown Police Officers Robert Seastedt and Jerome Thompson and a number of Fairmount Avenue and Canterbury Road residents assisted Officer Widlund. He said one of the residents went to his home to secure salt to spread on the highway.
Mr. Blood’s death is the first from traffic causes in Chautauqua County since Dec 8, 1960, when Harold E. Kling, 51 of Jamestown was killed on the Falconer-Stillwater Road. The Sheriff’s Department said it was checking its records but believes the time between deaths is the longest it has on record.
It is the first time in more than five years Chautauqua County has been free of highway motor vehicle fatalities in January and February.
A year ago there were three highway motor vehicle fatalities in January, one in February, and three in March. The fifth fatality last March was March 2; the sixth and seventh were recorded March 14 at Ripley.
Mr. Blood was born in Russell, Pa., Jan 12, 1891, a son of the late Elmer and Bertha Marlett Blood. He spent most of his life in the Jamestown area.
On Sept. 27, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was discharged Dec 11, 1918.
Always a furniture worker, Mr. Blood was formerly employed the former Elite Furniture Company, of Jamestown.
He resided in Frewsburg area until last summer, when he moved to Cottage Park.
Mr. Blood is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Stone Blood; six other daughters and two sons, Mrs. Harry Rasmussen, of Lakewood; Mrs. Carl Cheney, of Panama; Mrs. Donald Bernhardt, Mrs. Norman Reynolds and Mrs. David Johnson of Frewsburg; Vernon G. Blood, Jr., Fentonville, and Harold L. Blood, Lakewood.
He also is survived by four brothers, Lloyd Blood, of Jamestown; Leonard Blood of Busti; Vertel Blood of Shreveport, La., and Royal Blood of Kennedy, and a sister, Mrs. Crystabelle Hitchcock, of Busti, as well as 20 grandchildren.
Funeral services are in charge of Henderson & Lincoln Funeral Home.