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- C. MANFORD RUDD FARMER, RURAL ROUTE CARRIER
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - May 26, 2000Browse Issues
C. Manford Rudd, 79, of 16305 Van Wormer Road, was pronounced dead Tuesday in the emergency room at Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown.
He had died of injuries suffered when he was run over by a tractor at his home.
State police said that even though a rear tire of the approximately 3,000-pound tractor passed over his head and chest, he was able to crawl to his pickup and blow the horn to summon help. His wife, Helen, went out and found him on the ground beside the truck.
Mannsville-Manor ambulance responded to the 9:30 a.m. call and delivered Mr. Rudd to the hospital.
Police said Mr. Rudd went into his barn and attempted to start the John Deere tractor, which was equipped with a front-end bucket. The machine was in second gear, troopers said, so it lurched forward when he turned the ignition. The jolt threw him to the ground, and the left rear tire passed over him, police said.
Mr. Rudd was a rural route carrier employed by the Mannsville and Sandy Creek post offices for 16 years, retiring in 1984.
Born March 26, 1921, in Lorraine, son of Emery and Jennie Lennox Rudd, he was a 1939 graduate of from Mannsville-Manor High School.
He worked at the former GLF in Utica and then was employed for three years at the Raymond Sawyer farm, Burrville. He returned to his family's farm on Balch Place which he later purchased and operated.
He married Helen Overton of Smithville on June 16, 1946. The couple lived in Mannsville all their married life, moving to their present address in 1980.
Mr. Rudd was a member and trustee of Mannsville United Methodist Church, where had held may other offices. He was also a trustee of Maplewood Cemetery Association and a former member of the boards of education of the South Jefferson Central School District and the former Mannsville-Manor High School.
Surviving besides his wife are two sons and their wives, James M. and Monica, Potsdam, and Lawrence J. and Marcia, Mannsville; two daughters and a son-in-law, Kathleen E. and Wallace Hobbes, Mannsville, and Lucille A. Luther, Baldwinsville; two brothers, Marshall B., Watertown Center, and Carroll R., Elbridge; 11 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Two brothers, Calvin and William, died before him.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Mannsville United Methodist Church with the Revs. Robert Firby, pastor, and Gerald Pollock, retired Methodist minister, officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Piddock Funeral Home, Adams.
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1921 - 2000 (79 years)