Born: June 24, 1930
Died: April 18, 1966
Francis Hubert McKillip Jr, was a tree farmer. He was a son of Francis and Mary Agnes Newell McKillip.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 19, 1966
Hubert McKillip Dies in Brush Fire
Francis Hubert McKillip, generally known as Hubert, was fatally burned early yesterday afternoon in a grass fire behind the family farm on the Bloomingdale Road.
McKillip who would have been 36 years old on June 24 next, apparently collapsed in an epileptic seizure while burning the brush and was consumed by the flames.
The farm is a mile and a quarter west of Route 3. At 1:07 yesterday afternoon, according to the State Police, Robert Dukette of 9 Charles St. in Saranac Lake, noticed the grass fire and then found McKillip's body.
An autopsy was performed by Dr. Walter Frederick, pathologist at the Saranac Lake and Lake Placid hospitals, and the cause of the death was listed as second degree burns. A blood sample was sent to the State Police laboratories in Albany.
McKillip was known to have been subject to rather frequent epileptic seizures since he was a boy. He was unmarried.
The first indication that there was a fire came from workmen who were working about three miles north of Saranac Lake. They called the Bloomingdale Fire Department which, aided by the Saranac Lake Fire Department rescue unit, extinguished the blaze.
A Funeral Mass will be offered at 9 a. m. Thursday at St. Bernard's Church. Burial will be in St. Bernard's Cemetery. Friends may call at the Fortune Funeral Home, beginning this evening. A Rosary Service will be held at the funeral home at 8 p. m. Wednesday.
Mr. McKillip a tree farmer, was born in Saranac Lake a son of Francis and Mary Agnes Newell McKillip. He attended St Bernard's School and Saranac Lake High School.
Survivors are his mother, who operates the Mary Agnes Shop on Main Street in Saranac Lake.
Two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Cassesse of Cedarhurst and Miss Mary Agnes McKillip of Saranac Lake; two brothers, Daniel of Peru, N. Y., and Joseph of Lake Placid; three nieces and three nephews.
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