Ellis John Shetler

1902 - 1957  (54 years)

• Name	Ellis John Shetler
  Birth	18 Dec 1902	Sparta, Livingston Co., New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Jan 1957	Ontario Co., New York, USA
  Notes	Luella Mae (Mitchell) Hamilton's Obituary Scrapbooks Ellis Shetler Dies Of Heart Attack; Falls From Tower Ellis J. Shetler, a lineman for the Iroquois Gas Company with offices in Honeoye Falls, died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis while working at the top of a sixty foot gas well tower at Footer Well in the town of Bristol on Monday morning os week. His fellow worker, Wm. Prouty, looked on in horror as he saw Mr. Shetler's body plunge to the ground. He was dead before he fell, according to Dr. Charles J. Bobeck, Ontario County Coroner. Mr. Shetler, 54, leaves his wife, Helene, and a daughter, Helene Kay, and six brothers and four sisters. A resident of W. Bloomfield, Mr. Shetler had been an employee of the gas company, until recently known as the Republic Gas Heat and Ligmpany, for approximately twenty years. The morning of the accident he and Mr. Prouty were preparing at 9:15 a.m., when death occurred, to remove water from the well. Friends may call at Stephens Funeral Home on Monroe Street, Honeoye Falls from 2-5 and 7-9 and services will be held Thursday, January 31, 1957 at 2 o'clock with Mr. George Leissner officiating. Interment is in the West Bloomfield Cemetery. The entire community was shocked at the sudden passing of Ellis Shetler, one of West Bloomfield's outstanding good neighbors. Always smiling and always willing to help someone else, that was Ellis. This community extends the deepest sympao his family.
  Person ID	I2587	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Elmer Timothy Shetler,   b. 1862, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 25 Jun 1942, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Minnie Anna Mitchell,   b. 23 Mar 1869, Potter Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 21 May 1928, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	10 Jan 1895	Livingston Co., New York, USA
  Photos		Children of Elmer and Minnie (Mitchell) Shetler - 1950
  Family ID	F173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helene Esther Moore,   b. 08 Mar 1907   d. 15 Jul 1993, Ontario Co., New York, USA (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	21 Mar 1931
  Children	1. Kay Shetler
  Family ID	F12302	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 18 Dec 1902 - Sparta, Livingston Co., New York, USA Death - 28 Jan 1957 - Ontario Co., New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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