THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 14, 1996 TAG: 9610140080
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A2 EDITION: FINAL
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Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly Jr., son of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, 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 at Chapel Hill in 1994. He was a resident of Aspen, where he worked as a cartoonist for the Aspen Times.
He also assisted his father with cartoons. MacNelly's father is the creator of the comic strip ``Shoe.''
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT FATALITY by CNB