Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....FREEMAN, DALE DELOS July 17, 1987
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Gladwin County Record dated 07-22/1987 Column - 1 Page - 1
BEAVERTON WELL DRILLER ELECTROCUTED

   A 55-year-old Beaverton man was electrocuted while working at a farm in 
Isabella County Friday morning. Dale DeLos Freeman of 4893 S. Jones Rd., 
Beaverton, was killed instantly when the water well rig he was operating came 
in contact with a high tension power-line, said Isabella County Sheriff's 
officers.
   Freeman, owner of Freeman Well Drilling Co. in Beaverton, was drilling with 
the rig at 9635 N. Summerton Rd. Friday morning when a derrick on the machine 
hit a Consumers Power Co. electrical service line, said Sgt. Frank Stevens of 
the Isabella County Sheriff's Department.
   Freeman was reworking the well at the farm with a co-worker, George Croll, 
52, of Grant Rd. when the accident happened about 10 a.m. Croll told deputies 
he was shocked and felt some of the surge, but was not injured. The sheriff's 
department was summoned at 10:11 a.m. and an Isabella County medical examiner 
pronounced Freeman dead at the scene.
   "The victim was killed instantly when the derrick touched the high line." 
Stevens said. "He was grounded and working the controls on the rig when the 
accident happened." Stevens noted the power  line was a transmission line 
carrying about 4,800 volts of electric power. Gladwin County Record dated 07-
22/1987 Column - 1 Page - 1


Dale D. Freeman, 55, of 4893 S. Jones Rd., Beaverton, died suddenly Friday, 
July 17, when he was electrocuted while repairing a water well in Isabella 
County. He was born in Midland Feb. 12, 1932, and attended schools there. Mr. 
Freeman served in the Marine Corps from 1951 to 1954 during the Korean War. He 
was employed by Dow Chemical Co. for 10 years until becoming a well driller. 
Mr. Freeman was a member of the Allbright Shores F.O.E., the Midland V.F.W. 
Post 3651, the Estey Moose Lodge and the Sanford American Legion Post 443. Mr. 
Freeman and the former Delores Barshaw were married in September 1972, in 
Midland.
   Besides his wife, he is survived by one son, Alan of California; 3 
daughters, Pamela Hanely of California, Lori Royale of Houston, Texas, and 
Lesia Brown of Midland; his mother, Hazel Freeman of Midland; 3 step-sons, 
Dennis Barshaw of Beaverton, Bryan and Todd Barshaw of Mississippi; 3 step-
daughters, Terri Walle of Colorado, Tami Brooks and Kim Thacker of Florida; 3 
sisters, Rita Freeman and Billie Briggin of Midland and Ardath Chubb of 
Grayling; and 12 grandchildren.
   Services were held last Monday at 11 a.m. from the Ware-Smith-Woolever & 
Co. Funeral Home. The Rev. Father Joseph Schabel officiated and burial was in 
the Billings Township Cemetery. >>? Gladwin County Record dated 07-29/1987 
Column - 2 Page - 2


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