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ATTACK FATAL FOR FIREMAN
J.W. HENDRIX, 48, SUCCUMBS
AT STATION AFTER
ANSWERING ALARM
Shortly after
returning to the fire station at Central and Forest Avenues
early Wednesday, after going to an alarm in the 3500 block of
Dunbar Street, J.W. Hendrix, 48, died of a heart attack.
He had been a member of the Dallas Fire Department for eleven
years.
When the alarm sounded at 2:18 o'clock, Hendrix took
his usual place on the apparatus. At the fire, however, he
told fellow firemen he was ill and his captain told him to sit
on the apparatus for a time.
He became ill again after reaching the station, and
doctors from the Emergency Hospital were called. Firemen
gave him artificial respiration, but were unable to save his
life.
Hendrix's youngest son, Merrell Hendrix, who joined the fire
department three weeks ago, went to the fire whth his father and
was at the station at the time of his death.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs Johnnie Hendrix; three
sons, Merrell and Adrian Hendrix, all of Dalllas and Aubrey
Hendrix of Brenham; three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral arrangements were not complete Wednesday.
The body is at the Willand Funeral Home. Pallbearers will
be members of the Fire Department, mostly from the detail upon
which Hendrix served.
He was a member of the Ervay Street Mtthodist Church
and the Odd Fellows. The residence is at 1415 Metropolitan
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FIREMAN STRICKEN
AT BLAZE AS SON
MAKES FIRST TRIP
Stricken
with a heart attack on duty at an early morning fire to which
his son also came from another station, answering his first
alarm since joining the fire department, John Wolsey Hendrix,
48, fireman of 1415 Metropolitan, died at 4:10 a.m. Wednesday at
Station 6, 2802 Forest.
Merrell Hendrix, 22, the son, answered the alarm from
Station 24, Waldron and Poplar. His father went with
equipment of the Forest Avenue Station. At the fire the
father complained of being ill and his captain told him to rest
for a time. He attempted to aid in replacing hose on the
truck, insisting that he felt better, but collapsed as the
returning truck reached the station. The son was summoned.
He arrived about the time his father died.
The fire destroyed a garage and automoile at the home
of Elma Gardner, 3526 Dunbar.
Rites for Mr. Hendrix will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday
at the Welland Funeral Church. Firemen will be
pallbearers. Burial will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Surviving Mr. Hendrix are his wife, three sons, Merrell
and A.L. Hendrix, both of Dallas and A.E. Hendrix of Brenham;
three brothers, W.A. Hendrix of Pecos, George Hendrix of
Huntington and J.M. Hendrix of Hew Orleans, and two sisters,
Mrs. Fannie Jonesof Akron, Ohio and Mrs. Essie McIndale of
Birmingham, Ala. |