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04/15/13 09:20 AM #1    

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Birth: Aug. 28, 1945

Death: Jul. 16, 1975
 
Inscription:
IC 3 US NAVY VIETNAM
 Burial:
Mount Hope Cemetery 
Mankato
Jewell County
Kansas, USA 
Created by: TLC
Record added: Nov 16, 2009 
Find A Grave Memorial# 44445328

The following newspaper article was given to me today (June 26, 2015) so I am attaching it. It was written in the Belleville Telescope (Belleville, Kansas) on Thu. Jul 24, 1975 on page 15 for your reference.

Bryon L. Kneisler, 28, Mankato, Kan., City electrical lineman was electrocuted Wednesday, July 16, 1975, when he apparently came into contact with a 4,160-vole primary line in the northwest section of Jewell county seat town.

According to City Administrator Don Hamilton, an investigation was continutin Thursday morning.

"The work wasn't really technical, " Hamilton said. "We just really don't know why it happened. From outward appearances it should never have occurred.:

Hamilton said Mr. Kneisler and another lineman (who was with another truck one pole away) were installing service lines into residences at the time. Hamilton said the primary line was wll above the deadened secondry lines with which the linemen were working. Hamilton said Mr. Kneisler was on a ladder connected to the back of a truck when he was electrocuted. The co-worker, in a larger truc,, happened to see him fall backword. Mr. Kneisler did not fall from the ladder, however.

He was taken to ehd Jewell County hospital where physicians tried for 1.5 hours to revive him.

Mr. Kneisler, originally of Topeka, moved to Mankato to take the city job a little more than a year ago.

His funeral was held Saturday at the Kramer funeral chapel, the Rev. Robert Mincey offficiating. Burial was in Mount Hope cemetery, Mankato.

Mr. Kneisler was a veteran of the Vietnam war.

Survining are the widow, Belinda (formerly Belinda Diamond of Mankato), of the home; a son, Kenneth, of the; his mother, Mrs. Edith Vega, and a brother, Robert both of Topeka.


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