John Lentz Dies After Fall From Ladder, April 9, 1925

John A. Lentz Dies in a Hickory Hospital. ., . Fell from Ladder Monday While Inspecting Building Under Construction

Hickory, April 8—John A. Lentz prominent in business circles for the past quarter century, died this morning at 1 o’clock at the Richmond-Baker hospital where he was carried from West Hickory late Monday afternoon in an unconscious condition after he had fallen from the second story of a building under construction.

Mr. Lentz and C.H. Geitner were making inspections for the first Building and Loan Association when a ladder by which Mr. Lentz was rescending from an upstairs room slipped, and he fell nine feet, striking on his head and right shoulder.

For the past 30 years he had been connected with the First Building and Loan Association as a director and in addition to his work there had aided 500 or more persons individually in securing homes of their own. He was once mayor of Hickory and served for several terms on the board of aldermen. He was bor in Rockwell, Rowan county, on February 2, 1860. He was twice married, first to Miss Mollie Wiley of the eastern part of the state, and in 1918 to Miss Blanche Finger of Hickory. Six children survive.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 9, 1925

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