Vicory, Charles A.

Charles A. Vicory of Galena Kansas, a shoveler at the Lucky Bill Mine, located near Cardin Oklahoma, was fatally injured today, Mar 16, 1942, presumably when a heavy boulder fell from a can he had been loading and struck him in the stomach. He was 37 years old. It was reported here there were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy. The large rock was found near the victim's body, about 10:30 a.m., and it was assumed it had fallen from the can, crushing his body. The body was removed to the Durnil funeral home at Picher Oklahoma. Vicory was married, but names of survivors besides his wife were not known immediately.

Charles Adrian Vocory, who died at the Lucky Bill Mine yesterday morning, supposedly from an injury, was a victim of a heart attack, it was revealed by an autopsy held at the Durnil funeral home last night by Dr. A. V. Murry of the American hospital at Picher Oklahoma, and Dr. Frank James of Galena Kansas. The fact that the man had a heavy boulder in his arms when he fell led bystanders to believe that the boulder killed him and such a report was given out from the mining office, but that theory was disproved by the autopsy report. Vocory was born at Hornet Missouri, and spent his entire life in the Tri-State district. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena Vocory; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Helen Alexander of Joplin Missouri; a stepson, Johnny Faulkner, in the U.S. Navy; three brothers, Ray Vocory of Pioneer Missouri; William Vocory of Pierce City Missouri, and George Vocory of Hornet Missouri; three sisters, Mrs. Maude McNeal and Mrs. Everett Hill of Joplin, and Mrs. Hal Spurgeon of Hornett, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Vocory of Hornett. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Note: The name is also spelled Vicory in two articles.

Funeral services for Charles Vicory, who died in the ground of the Lucky Bill Mine at Cardin Oklahoma Monday, will be held at the Mission church at Galena Kansas, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the Rev. W. H. Flippin of Joplin Missouri officiating. A short service will be held at Hornet Missouri, at 3:30 o'clock. Pallbearers will be Dick Moore, Raymond Wilson, Oscar Bryan, Curtis Ledford, Ben Bailey and Hadley Huxall. Honorary pallbearers will be Ray Britton, Oscar Gardner, Noah Sloan, Ernest Lewellen, Chester Mering, and Kenneth Morris. Burial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery at Galena under the direction of the Durnil funeral home of Picher Oklahoma.