Information extracted from list of burials in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Additional information found on Ancestry.com.
Son of Harold R. Cornwell & Lola Dewey
Typed scrapbook newspaper article, undated, newspaper not identified:
Ira H. Cornwell, a highway department employee for 22 1/2 years, died of a heart attack at the Candor Town Barn, Humiston Street, early on the morning of February 1, 1980. He was 54 years old, being born June 4, 1925.
Ira arrived at work as usual on that Friday morning. At a little after seven he joined the other men in a coffee break, and upon returning, started to assist Roger Townsend in attaching a snow plow to Roger's truck. They had just begun that operation when Ira suddenly fell to the floor. The Candor Legion Ambulance Service responded and administered CPR (Cardio pulmonary resuscitation) at the Town Barn and on the way to the hospital, but Ira was apparently already dead.
Ira went to work for the Highway Department in August of 1957. He was an exceptionally faithful and dependable employee, missing very few days of work and having accumulated 107 days of sick time. He could always be depended upon to work long hours in emergencies. He could do a good job at almost any phase of the Department's work whether it be repairing machinery and vehicles, operating road graders, bulldozers, backhoes, trucks or plowing snow. He had a detailed knowledge of the Town's highway property and could remember the location and dimensions of fixtures such as sluice pipes and their approximate age. As Highway Superintendent Otto Aagaard said, it would be difficult if not impossible to replace a man like Ira Corwell.
Son of Harold R. Cornwell & Lola Dewey
Typed scrapbook newspaper article, undated, newspaper not identified:
Ira H. Cornwell, a highway department employee for 22 1/2 years, died of a heart attack at the Candor Town Barn, Humiston Street, early on the morning of February 1, 1980. He was 54 years old, being born June 4, 1925.
Ira arrived at work as usual on that Friday morning. At a little after seven he joined the other men in a coffee break, and upon returning, started to assist Roger Townsend in attaching a snow plow to Roger's truck. They had just begun that operation when Ira suddenly fell to the floor. The Candor Legion Ambulance Service responded and administered CPR (Cardio pulmonary resuscitation) at the Town Barn and on the way to the hospital, but Ira was apparently already dead.
Ira went to work for the Highway Department in August of 1957. He was an exceptionally faithful and dependable employee, missing very few days of work and having accumulated 107 days of sick time. He could always be depended upon to work long hours in emergencies. He could do a good job at almost any phase of the Department's work whether it be repairing machinery and vehicles, operating road graders, bulldozers, backhoes, trucks or plowing snow. He had a detailed knowledge of the Town's highway property and could remember the location and dimensions of fixtures such as sluice pipes and their approximate age. As Highway Superintendent Otto Aagaard said, it would be difficult if not impossible to replace a man like Ira Corwell.
Information extracted from list of burials in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Additional information found on Ancestry.com.
Son of Harold R. Cornwell & Lola Dewey
Typed scrapbook newspaper article, undated, newspaper not identified:
Ira H. Cornwell, a highway department employee for 22 1/2 years, died of a heart attack at the Candor Town Barn, Humiston Street, early on the morning of February 1, 1980. He was 54 years old, being born June 4, 1925.
Ira arrived at work as usual on that Friday morning. At a little after seven he joined the other men in a coffee break, and upon returning, started to assist Roger Townsend in attaching a snow plow to Roger's truck. They had just begun that operation when Ira suddenly fell to the floor. The Candor Legion Ambulance Service responded and administered CPR (Cardio pulmonary resuscitation) at the Town Barn and on the way to the hospital, but Ira was apparently already dead.
Ira went to work for the Highway Department in August of 1957. He was an exceptionally faithful and dependable employee, missing very few days of work and having accumulated 107 days of sick time. He could always be depended upon to work long hours in emergencies. He could do a good job at almost any phase of the Department's work whether it be repairing machinery and vehicles, operating road graders, bulldozers, backhoes, trucks or plowing snow. He had a detailed knowledge of the Town's highway property and could remember the location and dimensions of fixtures such as sluice pipes and their approximate age. As Highway Superintendent Otto Aagaard said, it would be difficult if not impossible to replace a man like Ira Corwell.
Son of Harold R. Cornwell & Lola Dewey
Typed scrapbook newspaper article, undated, newspaper not identified:
Ira H. Cornwell, a highway department employee for 22 1/2 years, died of a heart attack at the Candor Town Barn, Humiston Street, early on the morning of February 1, 1980. He was 54 years old, being born June 4, 1925.
Ira arrived at work as usual on that Friday morning. At a little after seven he joined the other men in a coffee break, and upon returning, started to assist Roger Townsend in attaching a snow plow to Roger's truck. They had just begun that operation when Ira suddenly fell to the floor. The Candor Legion Ambulance Service responded and administered CPR (Cardio pulmonary resuscitation) at the Town Barn and on the way to the hospital, but Ira was apparently already dead.
Ira went to work for the Highway Department in August of 1957. He was an exceptionally faithful and dependable employee, missing very few days of work and having accumulated 107 days of sick time. He could always be depended upon to work long hours in emergencies. He could do a good job at almost any phase of the Department's work whether it be repairing machinery and vehicles, operating road graders, bulldozers, backhoes, trucks or plowing snow. He had a detailed knowledge of the Town's highway property and could remember the location and dimensions of fixtures such as sluice pipes and their approximate age. As Highway Superintendent Otto Aagaard said, it would be difficult if not impossible to replace a man like Ira Corwell.
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