Marion-Taylor County GaArchives News.....FREAK ACCIDENT KILLS CONSTRUCTION WORKER September 10, 1969
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COLUMBUS ENQUIRER September 10, 1969
BUENA VISTA, GA
A COLUMBUS CONSTRUCTION WORKER WAS FOUND DEAD MONDAY EVENING, APPARENTLY RUN 
OVER BY THE BULLDOZER HE WAS OPERATING.
HENRY DWIGHT RITTER, 26, OF 341 McCARTHA DRIVE, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL 
AT THE MARION COUNTY HOSPITAL HERE AND A DOCTOR ESTIMATED THE TIME OF DEATH 
MORE THAN FOUR HOURS EARLIER.
RITTER WAS OPERATING A BULLDOZER AT A FISH POND SITE NEAR JUNIPER LAKE WHEN HE 
WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE.
A RECONSTRUCTION OF EVENTS INDICATED THE DOZER'S TRACKS GOT CAUGHT IN FENCING, 
AND IN EFFORTS TO FREE THE MACHINE, THE FENCING HIT THE GEARSHIFT.
RITTER WAS CRUSHED WHEN THE MACHINE ROLLED BACK OVER HIM.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 4 P.M. TODAY AT PINE LEVEL CEMETERY, MARION 
COUNTY,
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, JOHNNIE FAYE SMITH RITTER; TWO DAUGHTERS, REVA ANN 
HUNTER AND TINA MARIE RITTER; A SON, JOHN VIRGIL RITTER, COLUMBUS; HIS MOTHER, 
MAE CURRINGTON RITTER, COLUMBUS; THREE BROTHERS, JAMES RICHARD RITTER, SAN 
ANTONIO, TEX., ROBERT EUGENE RITTER, FORT VALLEY, GA., AMD CHARLES LAMAR 
RITTER, COLUMBUS, GA; A SISTER, NELLIE FAYE MURRAY, COLUMBUS, AND A NUMBER OF 
NEICES AND NEPHEWS.

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