Stanton Newspaper 3/18/1965

J.D Green, 25, was killed instantly Thursday when he came in contact with a
high voltage line while working north of Midland.
Green, well known in Stanton and residing of Big Spring with his wife and
two sons, was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital at
2:20 pm shortly after the mishap.
Justice of the Peace John Biggs of Midland returned an inquest verdict of
accidental death from electrocution.
Green was an emploee of the R&S Construction Co, which was installing a
power line for an irrigation project for the Cap Rock Rural Electric
Cooperative of Stanton.
He was working atop a pole when he is thought to have accidentally hit the
line carrying 7,200 volts.  He apparently died instantly, witenesses said.
Green was born May 10, 1949 at Dimmitt and moved to Stanton with his parents
in 1956.  He was married to the former Mary Ann Boon in Stanton on December
23, 1959.  They have two sons and for the past two months have been living
in Big Spring.
Survivors include his widow; two sons, Lonnie Dale Green and Danny Lee
Green, all of Big Spring; his parents, Mr & Mrs O. D Green of the Valley
View Community in Martin County; two brothers, Buddy Green of Stanton, and
Lonnie E Green of Valley View; two sisters, Mrs Billy Ray Allred of Stanton
and Mrs. Paul Gerdes of Spencer Iowa and a grandmother, Mrs F.H Lippe,
Monahans.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 3 pm in the First
Methodish here with Rev C. R LeMond officiating.  The final rites were under
the dircetion of Arrington-Gilbreath Funeral Home.