Waddell, Clellen L.

Picher Oklahoma, Feb. 25 Clellen L. Waddell, 59 year old resident of Baxter Springs Kansas, died at the Picher hospital at 4:30 am today from injuries received when he fell off a drill rig on a mining lease southeast of Picher early Sunday. He was said to have suffered head injuries when he struck a block on the ground after falling from the rig, which was being constructed on the Marcia Kay Mine lease, near the Fort Worth Mill. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Waddell of the home; his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Corbett of Douthat Oklahoma; three sisters, Mrs. M. D. Stanley of Cardin Oklahoma, Mrs. Lee Williams, Emporia Kansas, and Mrs. Henry Taylor of Council Grove Kansas, and a grandson. Funeral services will be announced by the Fisk funeral home in Miami.

Funeral services for Clellen R. Waddell, 59 year old Baxter Springs Kansas, driller, will be held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon in the first Baptist church at Baxter Springs Kansas. The Rev. H. Ellis will officiate. Waddell died early Tuesday morning in the Picher hospital after falling from a drill rig southeast of Picher Oklahoma, Sunday. Pallbearers will be Harry Block, O. T. Bushee, Harry Shaffer, Ed Reisling, Raymond I. Johnson and G. M. Emmerson. Burial will be in the Baxter Springs cemetery under direction of Fisk funeral home.