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Family/Spouse: James THOMPSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From an article in the January 27, 1972, edition of The Oregonian.

Two men were injured fatally at Bonneville Dam Wednesday when a scaffold on which they were standing collapsed at the upstream auxiliary fishway entrance.

Dead are 51 year-old Jack K. Thompson, of 904 E. 10th Street, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, of 914 NE 92nd Ave., Portland. Thompson was killed outright and Brock died several hours later in Gresham General Hospital.

Skamania County sheriff’s deputies said the men were working above a 56-foot hole near the fishway counting station on the north shore when the accident occurred. Cause of the accident was not given.

Both men were employed by Pacific Vantures, Inc., a contractor from Bellevue, Washington.



From an article in the February 3, 1972, edition of The Oregonian.

An accident that killed two iron workers at Bonneville Dam last Wednesday was caused by a combination of human error and fate, an Iron Workers Union official said in Portland Wednesday.

Jack Thompson, 52, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, Portland, died when a nut worked off a bolt securing scaffolding and the temporary structure fell off a fishway wall on the dam’s Washington side, said William Kissinger, business agent for Iron Workers Local 29 in Portland.

Kissinger said the accident occurred while the men were transferring their safety lines from one point to another during repair work on the fishway.

“At any other moment they would have been tied off,” said Kissinger, and would probably have escaped injury.

Workmen failed to place a second jamb nut on a bolt holding scaffolding bracket in position and the single nut gradually worked its way off, tumbling the entire structure, said Kissinger. The incident was investigated by the Army Corps of Engineers as well as state and union officials the business agent noted.

Kissinger said the union will insist on a third man being assigned to watch the scaffolding while repair work on the fishway is concluded.

Jack married Armella Dean VALGREN on 21 Nov 1942 in Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin. Armella (daughter of Simon G VALGREN and Myrtle Theresa ANDERSON) was born on 9 Jul 1923 in Wisconsin; died on 6 Jul 2010 in Wasco County, Oregon; was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 30, 2001, in International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles for Jerry Lee Thompson, who died June 24 at age 50.

Mr. Thompson was born Jan. 26, 1951, in Pendleton, and was raised in The Dalles. He was a care provider in The Dalles before moving to Portland in about 1971. He received an associate's degree from Portland Community College.

Survivors include his mother, Armella; brothers, Jack, Mick, Terry and Scott; and sister, Lisa.

Died:
Last residence Portland.