MADDOX, Wilbur

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ March 11, 1960, p. 10 Rites Held For Wilbur Maddox Funeral services for Wilbur Maddox, Wickenburg resident who was electrocuted Wednesday of last week when a crane with which he was working at the Box Canyon mill of Mohave Mining & Milling Co hit a 12,000 volt power line, were held at 2 p.m. last Saturday in the Wickenburg Chapel with the Rev. R. L. Jenkins, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Mr Maddox was born May 14, 1937, in Knoxville, Ia. After living in California for a number of years, he went to work for Mohave Mining & Milling Co., at Artillery Peak in 1956 and moved to Wickenburg in May 1957, where he continued with that company. Mr Maddox was walking alongside the crane, with one hand on it, directing the driver, O.T. Owens, in backing the equipment when the crane struck the power line. Artificial respiration was given but Mr Maddox was dead upon arrival at Community Hospital here. The driver was uninjured. Surviving are the widow, Judith, daughter of Mr & Mrs Charles Shadley of Wickenburg; one son, Timothy Roy, 1 year-old; the parents, Mr & Mrs Ted Maddox of Fresno, Calif.; three brothers, Carl and Charles of Redding, Calif., and Elmer of Fresno; and four sisters, Mrs Anna West of Amarillo, Texas; Mrs Wanetta Barton of Clovis, Calif., and Patricia Maddox and Bessie Maddox of Fresno.