Claude Utter Died From Broken Back

Guilford Man, Hurt in Scaffolding Fall - Succumbs June 30

(1939)

   Guilford-Claude Utter, aged 47, died Friday night at 10:15 o'clock in the Chenango Memorial Hospital at Norwich, as the result of injuries sustained on March 23, when he fell from a scaffold.  He had been confined at the hospital since the accident.

   At the time, Mr. Utter was at work on a scaffold which was being used in the repair of the Moses & Cronk feed mill which had been partially destroyed by fire a short while before.  In the fall, he suffered a broken back, broken leg, crushed ankle and several other injuries.

   Mr. Utter, who was born April 9, 1892, is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Gregory Utter, one son Richard, and a daughter, Janet, all of Guilford; three brothers, Fred Utter of Rockdale, Clarence Utter of Buffalo, and William Utter of 7 Beebe Avenue, Norwich; three sisters, Mrs. John Brown of Sidney, Mrs. Earl Palmer, and Mrs. Nellie Brooksbank of Oxford, and several nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held from the Seymour Funeral Home Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  Burial was made in Riverview cemetery at Oxford.

   The bearers were:  L. D. Dexheimer, Fred Tripp, Chas. Greene, Ralph Shelton, Lee Wade, Ward Goodwin.

NOTE:  THE DATE WAS HAND-WRITTEN ON THE ARTICLE.