ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, August 4, 1996 TAG: 9608050093
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: JON CAWLEY STAFF WRITER
A retired Franklin County School Board member died Friday when the tractor he was driving rolled over on him.
Wesley Naff Jr., 62, of Boones Mill was found pinned under a tractor at his Meadow Spring Farm on Retreat Road in Franklin County about 11 p.m., Franklin County Sheriff's Lt. C.D. Wagner said. Naff's son Wesley Naff III discovered the body.
"It looks like he was up on the pasture fields mowing grass on a hillside when the tractor got away from him and slid before rolling over and pinning him underneath," Wagner said.
It is not known how long Naff was under the tractor. He died before he was found.
Naff retired in June 1991 as associate superintendent of Franklin County schools. He started his career as a teacher.
Wagner was a student of Naff's in the 1950s. "He was a mighty fine man and well respected in the community,'' he said. ``He will be missed.''
Naff also was a one-time inventor, developing an improvement on the old trash pickup stick, which he called the "Litter Gun."
The patented design had a metal barrel and spring-loaded spear that was "a one-handed device for retrieving and ejecting litter," Naff said in a 1991 Roanoke Times & World-News article.
Naff developed the idea in 1986 after he grew tired of bending over all day during a trash pickup at Grassy Hill.
He was a member of the Rocky Mount Rotary Club.
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