Obituary, Washington Observer-Reporter:
“Man Killed As Tractor Turns Over
Jesse Lazear, Jr., 43, of Wind Ridge Star Route, was fatally injured Saturday morning, May 25, in a tractor accident at his farm home near Ryerson Station State Park.
State police said he was using a farm tractor to pull a truck loaded with wood up a grade. When the rear wheels of the vehicle struck a soft spot, the front end of the tractor raised up and then it flipped over backward, pinning him under it.
De. Meyer Sonneborn, Greene County deputy coroner, pronounced him dead at the scene at 11 a.m. He said the victim died instantly of a crushed chest and back fracture.
A son of Jesse Lazear Sr. and Ivy Durbin Lazear, he was born September 28, 1930 in Richhill Township. He and his wife, the former Shirley Headley, were married June 30, 1951.
Mr. Lazear was employed as a bailing machine helper by the Carnegie Natural Gas Company. Previously he had worked for 17 years for the East Ohio gas Company at Akron, Ohio.
He attended the Wind Ridge Christian Church.
Surviving in addition to his parents and his widow are two sons, Thomas Lazear, Graysville R.D.1, and James Lazear, Wind Ridge; three daughters, Cynthia, Patti and Christy, all at home; a graddaughter, Heather Renee Lazear; two brothers, Frank Lazear, Beachbottom, W. Va., and Michael Lazear, Hobart, Ind., and five sisters, Mrs. Martin (Ruth) Maciel, Atwater, Ohio; Mrs. Wayne (Marjorie) Jobes, Moundsville, W. Va.; Mrs. Tom (Jessica) Wood, Rootstown, Ohio; Mrs. Glenn (Patricia) Morrison, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. John (Carol) Mitchell, Greensburg, Ohio.”179