ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, October 14, 1996 TAG: 9610140120
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly Jr., son of Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, died of injuries received in a rock-climbing accident in Colorado.
The younger MacNelly was on a climbing excursion with friends east of Aspen. He was trying to rappel when he fell about 75 feet, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said.
He was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital, where he died Saturday. He was 24.
A Richmond native, MacNelly graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1994. He was a resident of Aspen, where he worked as a cartoonist for the local newspaper, the Aspen Times.
He also assisted his father with cartoons. MacNelly's father is the creator of the comic strip ``Shoe.''
In addition to his father, the younger MacNelly is survived by his mother, Marguerite Daniels MacNelly of Richmond; a brother, Frank Daniels MacNelly of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; and a stepbrother, Matthew Perry of Singapore.
-Associated Press
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