Don Wheldon
Encyclopedia
Donald Wheldon was a former professional
ice hockey
defenseman
who played two games for the St. Louis Blues in the 1974–75 NHL season. He was born in Falmouth
, Massachusetts
.
Wheldon was killed in a rather bizarre way on June 3, 1985 when he was sleeping. A bolt of lightning
hit his house and traveled up the metal frame of his bed which killed him.
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
defenseman
Defenceman (ice hockey)
Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...
who played two games for the St. Louis Blues in the 1974–75 NHL season. He was born in Falmouth
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,531 at the 2010 census....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
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Wheldon was killed in a rather bizarre way on June 3, 1985 when he was sleeping. A bolt of lightning
Lightning
Lightning is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms...
hit his house and traveled up the metal frame of his bed which killed him.