VINITA—Services for Philmore Killion, 49, Vinita painter who
was killed by a Frisco freight train locomotive here early
Sunday, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Luginbuel Brothers
Funeral home chapel.
The train engineer said Killion was sitting on the tracks.
He was knocked about 40 feet and died instantly. A resident
of Vinita for 25 years, he was a World war II veteran.
Survivors include: his father, John Lightwine, Buffalo, Mo.;
six sisters, Mrs. Nina Sherberg, Bremerton, Wash., Mrs. Lena
Hawkins, Mrs. Abbie Moreland, Mrs. Jess Hair and Mrs. Faye
Rosa, all of Vinita, and Mrs. Mary Wood, Buffalo; and three
half-brothers, George and Ben Killion, both of route 2
Chelsea, and Lonnie Killion, Buffalo.
From
The Oklahoma, 8/1/1956
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
