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Obit For Dunlow A. Lenox
Headline FALL UNDER TRUCK FATAL TO YOUNG MAN NEAR SELIGMAN
Denlow Lennoz Has Neck Broken and Skull Fractured When Run Over by Heavy Truck Friday
Text Shortly after 5 o’clock, Friday morning, July 1, as he was returning home after working a night shift at the Rich & Cox stone crushing plant between Washburn and Seligman, Denlow Lennoz, age 22, a prominent youth of the Seligman community, fell beneath a heavy truck on which he was riding, and instantly killed. The sad accident occurred at the Orville Roller place on Highway 37 about two miles south of Washburn.

Lenox had worked a ten hour shift at the crushing plant. He was going home and was riding on one of the big trucks loaded with gravel as far as the truck went on the road toward his home. Without waiting for the truck to shop he undertook to jump from it. The other men on the truck at the time of the accident stated it was moving at a speed of about 20 miles per hour.

Concerning the accident Walter Herd who was on the truck made the following statement: “ I was riding in the cab on the right side of the seat. Denlow Lenox was riding on the right running board with his head inside of the door, and holding to the door. As we neared Orville Roller’s house where a road turn off to Lenox’s home, Lenox said will you slow up so I can jump off”

The driver told him to wait until he got to the top of the hill and he would stop and let him off. At the point of the accident he seemed to step off the running board but continued to hold on to the door a second, then his hand lost it grip and he fell under the right hind wheel of the truck. As soon as the truck stopped, I ran back to where he lay. He never moved. He was dead. The truck was going about 20 miles per hour when the accident occurred.”

Ed Thomas and Dave Rowley, who was driving the truck, made similar statements. It was the general opinion of the men on the truck that Lenox’s clothes caught on the handle of the door as he started to jump and he tried then to hold on with his hand.

Young Lenox was a son of Mrs. Goldie Lenox. His father has been dead some fifteen years. He was a graduate of the Seligman High school and for the past two and one-half years had been a student of Drury College. He was a member of Theta Kappa Nu fraternity and very popular both among his college friends and in his home community.

Funeral services were held at the Rock Spring church Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Charles Vanzandt. Interment was made in Roller cemetery northwest of Seligman, under direction of Blankenship-Barr Funeral Services of Purdy and Exeter.
Research Note: Death Cert.# 21882
Name: Dunlow A. Lenox
Born: Sept. 16, 1909, Seligman, Barry Co., MO
Parents: Charles and Goldie (Weathers) Lenox
Died: July 1, 1932, Washburn Twp., Barry Co., MO
Burial: King Cemetery, Barry Co. MO
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date July 7, 1932
Death Cert Link Death Certificate
Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Barbara Erwin