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- Worker's
Memorial Day
- April
28, 2004
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- SAFE
JOBS - "Keep on Fighting"
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- Decatur's
Worker Memorial Monument
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- Jim Taylor,
UAW retiree, welcomes the crowd.
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- An opening
prayer by the Honor Guard Chaplain and
- a beautiful
version of God Bless America
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- A wreath
was placed at the monument by family members
- of workers
who have died on the job.
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- Lloyd
Holman, UTU 768, reads the names of those listed at the memorial.
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- Mayor-elect
Paul Osborne
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- Representative
Bob Flider talks about the important role
- unions
have in creating safe workplaces
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- President
of Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly, Mike Shampine,
- vows
to keep fighting for safe jobs.
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- Reverend
Jimmy Waddell, USWA retiree, closes with a prayer
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- This
memorial hosts the names of workers who have died on the job
- while
living or working in Decatur.
- To add
a name to the list, contact Dee Mathews at 422-8537.
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Workers who have
died on the job:
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Lyle
Dean Barding, 6/7/85
- Jim
Beals, 5/15/90
- Richard
Thomas Beck, 7/19/74
- Carl
Andrew Benge, 12/21/67
- Gerald
T. Bradshaw, 7/1/99
- Charles
Forest Bunning, 8/21/46
- Michael
Burns
- William
R. Butler, 9/27/90
- David
A. Cummins, 4/7/92
- Donald
Dial, 2/17/79
- Wallace
R. Dudley, 12/2/63
- William
T. Elliff, 4/22/70
- Francis
H. Ensign, 7/25/74
- Dewitt
Evans, 9/29/00
- Alan
Freshwater, 3/3/84
- Kevin
W. Gardner, 3/19/90
- Darryl
Hardy, 7/28/74
- Herman
Hartman, 1/5/82
- Bill
L. Howell, 12/9/96
- Everett
Lawrence Hunt, 11/16/63
- Louis
L. Jones, 8/20/80
- Martin
E. Kirkendoll, 7/2/81
- Jennifer
Locke, 6/10/00
- Martin
H. Lorenz, 12/12/76
- Stanley
G. Mayberry, 11/20/70
- Carol
Ann Miller, 7/1/99
- David
Merlin Miller, 12/5/67
- Michael
Musgrave, 1/11/83
- Kenneth
Nihiser, 3/1/54
- Ronald
William Norman, 8/7/00
- Lio
Linn O'Daffer, 11/16/63
- Bobbie
Olinger, 11/21/74
- Edward
Pettyjohn, 7/29/83
- John
Poteet, 7/26/74
- Delane
(Sonny) Probst, 11/20/62
- Clyde
Rucker, 7/21/74
- Thomas
L. Rutledge, 6/8/81
- James
C. Stowell, 2/2/77
- Michael
Anthony Tucker, 5/30/02
- Robert
Waltz
- Willam
Allen Waltz
- Don
R. Waters, 3/16/87
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- Worker's
Memorial
- Dedicated
on Labor Day 2000
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