Obituary: Kenneth Eugene Gales

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Revere Miner Is Fatally Injured
Suffers  Broken Back Under Fall Of Slate

   Injured in a fall of slate, December 23, in Nemacolin mine, 
Kenneth Eugene Gales,
aged 26, of Messmore, succumbed Sunday morning, December 29, 1940, 
In Uniontown
Hospital. He suffered a broken back and fractured leg.
   He was born August 14, 1914, at Humbert, Pa., a son of Mr. 
and Mrs. George Gales,
who now reside in Uledi. In addition to his parents, he leaves 
his widow, Lavina 
Firestone Gales; two daughters, D. Rae Donn, aged 21 months, 
and Marline, aged eight
months, and four brothers, William, New York; Carl, Messmore, 
and Lester and George,
Jr., both of Uledi.
   Brief prayer rites will be conducted at 1:30 Wednesday 
afternoon at the George Gales
residence, with the main services to follow in Free Methodist 
Church, McClellandtown. 
Rev. William Cowsert, the pastor, will be assisted by Rev. O. R. Tessaro, of Greensburg.
Burial will follow in Oak Grove cemetery, under the direction of 
T. Leonard Sangston,
McClellandtown.