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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: September 2, 2023
Caption: In Memory of Charles Follette, Jr. Marker
Additional Description: photo caption
TRAGEDY: Charles Follette Jr. suffered fatal burns the night of Oct. 2, 1942, when a gasoline-powered popcorn roaster exploded during an Ellwood City-Butler football game.

Scout's Honor
Witnesses recall how a popcorn roaster explosion claimed the young life of a Boy Scout 68 years ago today
By DAVID BURCHAM
[email protected]
By age 14, Charles Follette Jr. was an Eagle Scout. No boy from Ellwood City had ever attained that rank at a younger age. In the final moments before a bizarre accident took his life 68 years ago, Follette was proudly weaing the uniform.
Submitted: September 5, 2023, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p747862
File Size: 3.346 Megabytes

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