Freer, John F.

John F. Freer, 60 years old, survivor of many serious accidents, having at different times had every bone in his legs and arms and all his ribs broken, died at 2:30 Sunday morning at Freeman hospital at Joplin Missouri from injuries received in a fall from a scaffold at a mill near Picher Oklahoma. Friday afternoon. He suffered a cut on the head, fractures of the right arm above and below the elbow, several broken ribs and a broken hip in the fall. He was taken to the hospital following the accident.

A mill carpenter and bridge builder by trade, Freer for the last several years has worked in the Picher mining field, and had narrowly escaped death by accidents several times.

Surviving are two sons, Bergan Freer and Clay Freer; a sister, Mrs. J. N. Judd of Springfield Missouri, and two brothers, Will Freer of Joplin and Joseph Freer of Walnut Ridge Arkansas

Funeral services will be held at 10 tomorrow morning at the Hurlbut chapel, with the Rev. C. P. Mills, pastor of the Byers Avenue Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in Carterville Missouri cemetery.

The Pioneer Mining Company was named defendant in a suit for $20,000 damages, filed Friday afternoon in the district court by Clay Frear and Bergan Frear, sons of J. F. Frear, a carpenter, who was injured fatally in May, 1926, when he fell from a scaffold at the Company's property near Cardin Oklahoma. Frear was working in construction of a new mill.