Man is electrocuted while working in Buffalo
Published 7:46 pm Wednesday, October 21, 2026
This week in Dallas County history, as recorded in the Buffalo Reflex.
Oct. 20, 1966
Jimmy Owen Lowden, 21, Buffalo, was electrocuted while working in Buffalo. The death was ruled accidental.
Lyle Ray Caselman, first grade, crowned Robin Long as queen of the Long Lane School Carnival.
A small tornado passed through an area west of Buffalo, mainly damaging shade trees and timber.
Buffalo Theatre: “Battle of the Bulge,” “The Singing Nun,” with Ricardo Montalban, and “Kid Rodelo,” with Julio Pena.
Autoscope Drive-in: “Buffalo Gun,” with Marty Robbins, Carl Smith, Douglas Fowley, Wayne Morris and Webb Pierce.
Area deaths: Martha Elizabeth Dowell, T.S. McFall, Alex Dooley and Mrs. Anna Jones.
Oct. 21, 1976
Skyline School Board was ordered to call a special election so patrons could vote on a proposed boundary change.
Missouri Secretary of State James C. Kirkpatrick was the guest speaker at the Dallas County Democrat rally.
North Benton Township was to be divided into two voting precincts in the November general election.
The Buffalo High School softball team won the district tournament.
Fourth-graders Carol Howard and Chip Barnhart were princess and prince of the Skyline Carnival. Freshmen Randy Garrison and Delores Latimer were king and queen.
Autoscope Drive-in Theatre: “Mother, Jugs & Speed,” with Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Bill Cosby and Larry Hagman.
Area deaths: Claude I. Grant, William Edward Hill, Clarence Ivis Jackson, Maude Peyton Beck Lambeth, Urpha O. Drumright and Sarah Martha Stephens.
Oct. 22, 1986
Gov. John Ashcroft was to visit Buffalo for a coffee and cookies reception at Victorian Steak House.
Urbana Lodge No. 421 AF & AM was to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
David Showers, D.O., was to offer complete family care and limited obstetrical services at 410 W. Dallas, next to Sears.
Fire destroyed the Ron Rima residence on Route C.
Donna Webb, owner and stylist at Klip ‘n Kurl, moved her business from Louisburg to south of Buffalo.
Former Buffalo basketball standout Gary Dill was on School of the Ozarks’ roster as a senior 6-3 forward.
Skyline Schools honored its treasurer of 30 years, C.P. Wilson, by naming the new baseball field after him.
Carl and Verlee Wiley, Buffalo, and Ed and Frances Smith, Urbana, were to mark their 50th anniversaries.
Highway 65 Drive In Theatre: “Back to School,” with Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon, Sam Kinison and Terry Farrell.
Area deaths: Dora Jane Slack and Jack Carl Kelm.
Oct. 23, 1996
Buffalo Mayor Perry Rooker resigned, citing complications from myasthenia gravis, a form of muscular dystrophy.
Amtrak market manager Kathy Louth, daughter of Johnnie and Blanche Martin, Urbana, coordinated trip details for President Bill Clinton’s campaign, working with White House staffers, the Secret Service and campaign officials.
George Petersen, Louisburg, had always wondered about the fate of some young women he had cared for when he was an Army nurse on Okinawa 50 years ago during World War II. He then happened to meet an Okinawa resident at a Louisburg Lions Club meeting. The resident went back to Okinawa with a 50-year-old picture of the women and had it published in the Okinawa Times, asking for info. Some of the Japanese women contacted Petersen to tell how they fared.
Area deaths: Roberta May (Bailey) Arandus Shoemaker, Denzil Carter, Leon Ezell Casey Jr., Norma Dee Reser, Eva Elfreda (Osborn) Loudermilk, Curtis D. Huber, Pete Davis and Belvia Jewell Hill.
Oct. 25, 2006
Dallas County Real Estate opened Oct. 1. Owner/broker was Clifton Gill. Agents were Janice Howard and Skyla Weeks.
Amber Elizabeth Gann was selected to participate in the Miss Missouri Teen USA Pageant.
Buffalo grad Sgt. 1st Class Robert G. Moore was deployed to Iraq, after serving a year in Afghanistan.
Brandon Chapman, Buffalo, began working with Murney Associates, Springfield, offering real estate services.
Ronnie Powell, Windyville, published a book, “South Through Barefoot Pass: Short Stories, Fact, Fiction and Folktales.”
Area deaths: Sandra Jean “Sandy” Blair, Velma Mae Stidham, Lois Ethel Dugan, Dorothy Ellen (Gifford) Berry, Wilbur Eugene Redd, John M. Thiesen, Larry Lee Hildebrand and Gussie Ann Scruggs.
Oct. 19, 2016
Dallas County R-1 School Board voted to join the newly formed Ozark Highlands Conference.
Patricia Breckenridge, chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, spoke at the Shewmaker Center at BHS.
Deaths: Robert E. Neal (Fair Grove man who died in a motorcycle crash), Lonnie James Ownby, Theresa Joann Cotton.
