Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Allison, Russell M. July 11, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dan Lindley danoh19344@hotmail.com and Kathy Clay ikathyc@gmail.com January 22, 2007, 9:20 am Daily Local News, July 12, 1962 Russell M. Allison, 65, of Lionville was pronounced dead on arrival at Chester County Hospital at 4:15 p.m. yesterday from injuries suffered in an industrial accident at the Bradford Hills Quarries in East Caln Township at 3:50 p.m. Clifford E. DeBaptiste, deputy County Coroner, West Chester, said the victim died from shock after suffering crushing injuries of the lower limbs and severe abdominal wounds. The coroner said he was hit and run over by a 25 ton pay-hauler truck. The victim was rushed to the hospital by the Minquas Ambulance of Downingtown but was dead on arrival. After making an investigation of the mishap, DeBaptiste said that apparently the man had walked behind the slow backing truck, known as a Uke, and slipped under it. The coroner said the large vehicle could only move backwards at two to three miles an hour at the most, and at the time the operator of the Uke, Calvin Filmore Scharsha, Jr., 33, of Brandamore, was being given directions by Allison. The victim was hit by the inside back left wheel. No inquest will be held because, as it stands now, the mishap was accidental DeBaptiste said. The body was taken to the Ralph Ralston Funeral Home, Downingtown Allison was employed as a traffic coordinator for the Chester Carriers, Inc., East Petersburg, Pa, a subsidiary of Bradford Hills Quarry, Downingtown. He was the husband of the late Elsie Webster Allison and resided with a sister, Mrs. Margaret Smith, at Lionville. Mr. Allison has made his home in Lionville since 1914, and had been very active in community affairs. He was employed for many years for the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, having resigned in 1954 to accept his new position. Born at East Freedom, Blair County, he was the son of the late Harrison and Jane Croyl Allison. He was a member of St Paul's Lutheran Church, Lionville; Pilgrim's Lodge 455 IOOF of Lionville; Mt. Pickering Lodge 446 F. & A. M., Byers; Reading Consistory, 32nd Degree, AASR; Chester County Club of Reading Consistory. Mr. Allison was a director of the Downingtown Building and Loan Association; 25 Year Club of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Highways, District 6; the Lionville Fire Co. He was for many years a Republican Committeeman for Uwchlan Township, and was at the time of his death, engineer for Chester County Civil Defense. Also surviving are a daughter, Marian, wife of Luther Kulp, of Carlisle; two other sisters, Mrs. Warren Reese of Lyndell, and Mrs. Burdine Claar of East Freedom; four grand children Ibid: ALLISON- Of Lionville, Pa., Russell M. Allison, husband of the late Elsie Webster Allison, on Wednesday, July 11, in his 66th year Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Ralph W. Ralston Funeral Home, 107 W. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, Pa., on Saturday, July 14, at 2:00 P.M. Interment at St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery of Lionville. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home Friday evening. IOOF Services Friday evening at 8 P.M. Masonic services Mt. Pickering Lodge, will conduct graveside services on Saturday. Additional Comments: Tombstone image available at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb