CHESTER HARTMAN, 53, DIES SUDDENLY YEST'RDAY

Word reached here shortly after six last night of the sudden death of Chester L. Hartman, age 53.

Hartman died on the drive way at the Burley Grimes home located two miles north and east of Wyaconda, a result of a heart attack, according to a report by the attending physician, Dr. B. F. Hutchinson. He had not been ill.

Hartman, Missouri Power & Light Co. service lineman here, had returned from Kirksville early in the afternoon, where he had gone for materials. Having been notified that rural customers in the Wyaconda area were without lights, he contacted helper Ralph Hamlin to meet him at the sub-station there.

Hamlin and Hartman had replaced a cross arm on a light pole, and as Hamlin fused the line in at the sub-station, Hartman backed his service truck to the Grimes home near the station to see if they had lights, When he did not return in a few minutes, Hamlin, thinking pehaps he had found something wrong with the power lines at the Grimes home, drove to the home.

Hartman had checked with the Grimes family, were told they had lights, and returned to the driveway. He slumped beside the Grimes auto, parked in the driveway just ahead of his truck, where Hamlin found him.

Chester L. Hartman was born at Goltry, Okla., Sept. 4, 1911, a son of William and Lucy Black Hartman. He had been an employee of the Missouri Power & Light Company for almost 25 years.

Survining him are his wife, Hila (Creason) Hartman, and daughter, Carol Lynn, of the home in Gorin; a brother, Cecil Hartman of Perry, Mo.; and two sisters, Clydean Clough of Wyaconda and Margaret Todhunter of Brookfield, Ill.

Funeral services will be held from the Gorin Christian Church Saturday afternoon at 2 o;clock, Rev. David Stout officiating.