This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6051 Message Board Post: ROBERT RORK Funeral services, largely attended, were held Tuesday (1942) for Robert RORK, 31, lineman for the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, whose sudden death by electrocution when his body came in contact with a 2400 volt power line late Friday afternoon, saddened this community. Loren LEET, a fellow workman who received slight burns on his hands and severe shock in the same accident, is recovering nicely at his home and expects to return to work soon. Popularly known as "Bob", through his basketball and baseball activities extending back to the time before his graduation from Fillmore High School in 1930, besides being a star at both sports, he was known to hundreds of fans for his refereeing activities in recent years. "Bob" had also been manager of the championship Fillmore baseball team for the past few years. Born and reared in this community his friends were legion. According to fellow linemen and H. G. YOUNG, district manager of the RG&E, the accident occurred while the men were engaged in cutting lines into the new sub-station in this village. The sub-station was being fed from the old Mills Mills plant and the process of phasing in the new lines necessitated switching certain wires, the linemen meanwhile observing a voltage regulator. Other members of the crew were H.J. STRAHAN, Ivar SWANSON, Leland LAFFERTY, Roger MILLS and Loren LEET. All ordinary precautions were being taken in changing the wires, the workmen having been warned of existing danger at a safety meeting the previous Wednesday. Despite these precautions, the fatality was apparently the result of one of those inexplicable causes in which no blame is attached to anyone. One test had been made and preparations were made for the second before the wires were permanently cut in. RORK and LEET ascended to the wooden platform on the sub-station and, apparently unaware of! the close presence of the high voltage current, came in contact with the wires. The body of RORK "froze" to the regulator case and Ivar SWANSON, crew foreman, climbed on the platform which was not grounded and pulled the body loose. Mr. RORK was rushed to the Fillmore Hospital in an ambulance where they resorted to adrenalin and artificial respiration for about two hours failed to revive him. Dr. F.C. BALLARD of Rushford held an inquest at the RG&E offices Saturday morning. "Bob" had been employed be the local utility about seven years, previous to which time he attended Houghton College three years. In August of 1934 he was married to Dolores YAGER of Fillmore, who survives him. He also leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy RORK of Perry and two sisters, Mr. Robert McGEE, Buffalo and Miss Helen RORK, Perry. Services were held from his late home, a short distance from the scene of the fatality with an overflow in the Methodist Church at two o'clock, the Rev. C.H. NASH of East Otto and the Rev. Harold WASS of Fillmore officiating. Interment was made in Pine Grove Cemetery, Fillmore.