Marion County WV Archives Obituaries.....Fluharty, Orville;  July 29, 1940
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Times-West Virginia, July 28, 1940
OBITUARY, Orville Fluharty
Koppers Foreman Killed Soon After Receiving Safety Award

Death pulled one of his most ironic tricks yesterday morning, when Orville
Fluharty, popular, 44-year-old foreman at the Grant Town mine of the Koppers
Coal company, was killed by a fall of slate just about 12 hours after he had
received an award for working over seven years without a lost-time accident.
  
Sunday night Fluharty was one of 10 Koppers Federal division foremen honored at
a safety dinner in the Fairmont hotel. He had gone seven years and four months
without a lost-time accident, and he received due recognition and an appropriate
award for that accomplishment.
    
Death, to whom mines are a favorite hunting ground, must have looked at
Fluharty's record and those of the other men honored at the Kopper's banquet,
with alarm. He must make up for lost time.
      
So yesterday morning, as Fluharty was "taking a point" at a heading in the mine,
a mass of slate fell from the ceiling where he was working. It crushed his skull.
        
County Coroner D. E. Kidd was called to make an investigation and said an
inquest would not be necessary.

Fluharty's widow was in Baltimore, Md., at the time of the accident and was
notified yesterday afternoon. The body was brought to the R. C. Jones funeral
home but arrangements are incomplete pending her arrival here.

There are no children.

The deceased was a son of Zoie and James Lewis Fluharty and a brother of Guy
Fluharty, of this city.

Additional Comments:
from Memorial Card at the funeral
Born in Grant Town, W. Va., February 19, 1895
Died Jul 29, 1940
Services at the home of Dale Dulin on August 1, 1940
Burial in Ballah Chapel Cemetary

From Death Certificate
NAME: Orval Beyarl Fluharty
BORN: February 19, 1895 in Grant Town, WV
DIED: July 29, 1940
HUSBAND-OF: Alice Ann Ross
SON-OF: James L. Fluharty & Zora West (both born in Marion County WV)
BURIAL: Ballah Chapel in Grant Town, WV

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