Roger Mills Co. - Obit of Harris, Dick 

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Obit for Dick Harris

A rock thrown by a dynamite blast in Idaho Fall, Idaho on August 30, 1964 
killed a construction worker in a sanitary sewer project. 

Dick Harris, died in surgery in Idaho Falls hospital about 2 p.m.  He had been 
taken to the hospital after the blast at 10:30 a.m.

Harris was one of two persons near the blast.  The other man waas Gary Richardson 
28 who did not see the accident but found Harris unconscious immediately after the 
blast.

According to hospital attendants, Harris did not regain consciousness.

George Hartwell, a contractor who employed Harris, suggested the accidnet occured 
because of a premature explosion.

Richardson told Idaho Falls police investigating the accident that the charge was 
the same size as the pair had been using in earlier blasts.

Harris was struck on the right sidce of his head.

Dick Harris was born June 24, 1922, at Durham, Oklahoma son of Walter E. and Eula 
Sloan Harris.  He resided in Oklahoma until 1963 when he moved to Kansas.  He was 
married to Montez Walker on May 1, 1955.  They came to Idaho Falls in 1960.

Besides his wife he is survived by his son, Richard Lyn Harris seven weeks old, 
a son by a previous marriage, Hugh Wesley Harris, and a daughter by a previous marriage, 
Mrs. Frances Ann Nichols, both of Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

He is also survived by one brother, Cliff Harris of Boise, Idaho, one sister, Mrs. 
Walter Hensen  of Idaho Falls and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harris of 
Cheyenne.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK