Obit of Irons, Ervin Frank - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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McCurtain Gazette

Idabel, Oklahoma

Wednesday June 3, 1953 

FORMER COUNTY RESIDENT KILLED IN FALL FROM RIG 

Alice,Tex. - Ervin Frank Irons, 40, a resident of a Alice for 16 
years, was killed instantly when he fell 65 feet from an oil well rig 
about 11 a.m. Monday, May 25.

Irons, a rig builder by trade, was working on a rig 10 miles 
northwest of George West in Live Oak County.(Texas) He. was climbing 
up the rig when he turned his ankle, slipped and fell. He was 
employed by Bud Martin, a rig building contractor of McAllen and was 
tearing down a rig for Kirkpatrick Drilling Co. on the A. R. Derrough 
No. 1, Magnolia Petroleum Co. lease.

Irons was a member of the First Baptist Church of Alice and a veteran 
of World War II, having served overseas for 27 months with the 26th 
Naval Construction Battalion.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ernestine Irons; three sons, Danny 
Shuford, Jackie Shuford, and Michael Irons; a daughter, Carroll 
Irons; a half brother, Seth Sappington; two half sisters, Mrs. Annie 
Campton, all of Alice, and Mrs. Florence Rogers of Weslaco; and his 
mother, Mrs. Fannie Sheffield, of Alice.

Funeral services were at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist church 
of Alice with the Rev. Phillip C. McGhee Officiating, assisted by the 
Rev. A. Kelly, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Alice.

Burial was in Rose Lawn Memorial Park under direction of Bowers-
Wright funeral home.

A son of the late Henry Irons, the victim was born at Millerton.

Attending the services from Idabel were Sheriff and Mrs. Walter 
Irons.
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