Services will be held this weekend for a 2004 Elon University alumnus who died Tuesday night at work in what investigators have called an industrial accident.
Matthew John Ford, 26, a computing sciences major, was killed Oct. 7, 2008, at Southland Electrical Supply in Burlington when, according to the Burlington Times-News, a piece of heavy equipment he was operating overturned. Ford was the chief information officer for the company. At Elon, Ford served on The Pendulum staff and was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
Visitation will be from 6-7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, and the funeral service at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Hayworth-Miller Funeral Home’s Kinderton Chapel. For directions to the funeral home, click on the link to the right of this page.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Elon University, 2600 Campus Box, Elon, NC 27244 in Matt’s name. Online condolences may be made through www.hayworth-miller.com.