Daniel F. Ellison

Date of birth:  19 Nov 1955 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Date of death: 7 Nov 1980 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Edinburgh Tri-County Enterprise, November 12, 1980

Daniel Ellison
Killed In
Industrial
Accident

Daniel F. Ellis­on, 24, Southport, husband of the for­mer Karen Calvert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Calvert of Edinburgh, was killed at 4:00 p.m. Friday in an indus­trial accident at the construction site at St. Vincent Hospital in Indian­apolis.

An apprentice ir­onworker, Ellison was employed at the present by Geiger and Peters Con­tractors and the accident occurred when a tractor-tr­ailer of steel was being unloaded and the tractor return­ing for another trailer. Ellison fell and was crush­ed by the tires.

Funeral services were held this mor­ning at 11:00 a.m. by the Rev. Lawren­ce Tedrow at the Edinburgh United Methodist Church and burial was made at Rest Haven Ceme­tery in Edinburgh. Calling hours had been held at Wil­son-Pierre Funeral Home in Greenwood.

Ellison was born in Indianapolis Nov. 19, 1955, the son of the late Bennie F. Ellison and Roberta Ellison of Indianapolis. He and Mrs. Ellison were married in Edinburgh March 22 of this year. He was a 1974 graduate of Broad Ripple High School and in his third year as apprentice iron­worker to have gra­duated this year from IVY Tech in Indianapolis. He was a member of local unit 22 in Indianapolis.

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Submitted by Mark Wirey