'Heart Gave Way,' Autopsy Indicates
WAYNESVILLE (Special)- Funeral services will be held Monday for a 14-year-old Waynesville youth who died Friday during exercises in a physical education class here.
A spokesman for the Moss-Williams funeral home said an autopsy showed that Danny Killingsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Buford Clark, died instantly when his "heart just gave way."
Young Killingsworth, who had not been known to suffer from any previous illness was an eighth grade student at Waynesville Junior High School. The youth was climbing a rope as part of a class exercise about 11:30 a.m. Friday when he suddenly let go.
Someone caught him before he struck the floor, and Howard Neeley, ninth grade basketball coach and assistant football coach, administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but to no avail. A doctor was called to the school and pronounced the boy dead a short time after the incident.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the West Side Baptist Church.
The Revs. Norman Sanders and Lyall Cox will officiate, and burial will be in the Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under direction of Moss-Williams.
Survivors in addition to the mother and step-father include three brothers, Mike, Gregg and Larry, all of the home; two sisters, Lori and Debby Kay, both of the home; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Manning, Plato; and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Doty, Lebanon.
Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
30 March 1968
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