Ilion High School - Class of 1954Herkimer Evening Telegram - July 5, 1955Diving Injury Takes Life of Ilion SailorArticle 10Source pdf file is here Herkimer NY Evening Telegram 1955 01566.pdf on fultonhistory.com
Diving Injury Takes Life of Ilion Sailor ILION - A brain Injury sustained when he was diving into a swimming pool in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday night, caused the death of Richard E. Lewis, 18, son of Robert and Laura Small Lewis, 218 S. Fourth Ave. The young man had been attending Electronic School at Memphis Naval Air Station. He enlisted in the Navy in September, 1954, following his graduation in June of that year from Ilion High School. He was active in athletics while in high school and won the Rocky Cramer Award for outstanding proficiency in 1954. He was sectional pole vault champion and played football, baseball and basketball. He was born Aug. 27, 1936 in Ilion. He was a life guard at the Ilion Swimming Pool in 1953 and again in 1954. According to press reports, he failed to make the final half flip of a dive from a ten-foot diving board and landed on the water on his chest and stomach. Doctors said the fatal brain hemorrhage probably resulted from the dive. The young man was a member of Roosevelt Chapter, Order of DeMolay and a communicant of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church. Arrangements for the funeral service are incomplete.
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