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JPEC Workers Pay Tribute to Josh Franklin

JPEC Workers Pay Tribute to Josh Franklin
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Jan. 17, 2017 | CALVERT CITY, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Jan. 17, 2017 | 12:43 PM | CALVERT CITY, KY
As family members bring the body of Josh Franklin back to Paducah, co-workers from Jackson Purchase Energy honored him as he returned to the cooperative's territory Tuesday afternoon.

Trucks from the utility were part of a caravan driving from Nashville, where Franklin was hospitalized, to Paducah, where Franklin lived with his wife and two small children. 

Another group of co-workers parked bucket trucks on the Patterson Ferry Road Bridge over I-24 near Calvert City, which is near the boundary for JPEC's service area. They raised the buckets on their trucks and used them to fly an American flag over the Interstate as the caravan passed underneath. 

A JPEC spokesperson said Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative did a similar tribute in Christian County and WKRECC also did a tribute to him in Calvert City, so he was welcomed home by all area cooperatives.  

Franklin came in contact with a live electrical wire on January 6 while working in West Paducah. He was taken to a local hospital and then airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville for treatment. After consulting with neurologists about the extent of brain injury from the electrical shock and lack of oxygen after the accident, family members decided to disconnect Franklin's ventilator on Monday. He died about 12:30 pm.

Funeral arrangements for Franklin are incomplete.

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