Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harrell, Aaron R., 1950 

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BURNS ARE FATAL TO BOY, 3 

Aaron Harrell Trapped In Flaming Dog Pen; Playmate, 5, Escapes 

  A three-year-old Bosley Avenue boy died this morning at 1:40 o'clock at 
Lakeview Hospital of burns suffered yesterday afternoon when straw in a dog 
pen trailer became ignited while the youngster was playing in the trailer 
with a neighborhood playmate.  The dead youngster is Aaron R. Harrell, son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Harrell, 409 Bosley Ave.  Mr. Harrell is a city fireman.

  According to relatives, the Harrell youngster was playing with David 
Speight, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Speight, near the home of 
Marvin D. Howell, 407 Bosley Ave., when the youngsters got into a dog pen 
trailer owned by Mr. Howell. 

  In some manner the straw in the bottom of the trailer became ignited and 
the Speight child got out of the trailer but left a coat and hat in it.  The 
Harrell child evidently was not able to get out, or became confused and 
frightened. 

  The smoke and blaze was discovered by Mrs. Stanley L. Rodgers, Sr., 
grandmother of the Harrell boy, who screamed.  She was heard by Mrs. Dewey 
Howell, and the two women attracted the attention of James Chandler, also of 
Bosley Avenue. 

  Chandler and Mrs. Howell pulled the trailer to a spigot and turned a hose 
on the blaze.  They then rushed the child to Lakeview Hospital. 

  Dr. E.C. Joyner, coroner, stated this morning that the cause of death was 
general burns accidentally incurred. 

  The boy is survived by his parents and a younger sister, Genevieve Harrell. 
He is also survived by his maternal grandmother, Mrs. S.L. Rodgers, Sr., and 
by his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Harrell, of Nansemond County, 
near Holland. 

  Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the 
I.O. Hill Funeral Home by Reverend Duane N. Vore.  Burial will follow at the 
Somerton Friends Meeting House near Holland. 

[photo, captioned:] 
Where Harrell Boy Was Fatally Burned 

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Aaron Harrell Buried Thursday 

  Funeral Services for Aaron Rodgers Harrell who died at a local hospital 
Tuesday, were conducted at 2:30 Thursday afternoon at the I.O. Hill Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Duane N. Vore and the Rev. James R. Stein. 

  Mrs. Webb Pinner played, "Sometime We'll Understand," and Mr. Vore read the 
hymn, "Father To Thee We Look."  The pall was of white pom-poms and red rose 
buds.  Burial was in Somerton Friends Church cemetery. 

  Pall-bearers were Billy March, James Copeland, Frankie Wright, Meredith 
Crocker, Reginald Harrell, and Gerald Copeland.  Honorary pall-bearers were 
members of the Twentieth Century Baraca Class of the Suffolk Christian Church 
and members of the Suffolk Fire Department and friends. 


Aaron Rodgers HARRELL, 
son of Sidney Fletcher & Mildred Novella (RODGERS) HARRELL, 
b. 2 Jun 1947, Suffolk, fatally burned 15 Nov 1950, Suffolk, 
interred in Somerton Friends Meeting Cemetery*, 16 Nov 1950, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 192, Wed., Nov. 15, 1950, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 195, Sun., Nov. 19, 1950, p. 3 

*His parents are also buried there.  Somerton Friends list, an extension 
   of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/somefr.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 25155 (Suffolk #321) 


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