Bedford, Virginia Man | Killed in Tragic Vehicle Accident

What began as a casual men’s breakfast and prayer session, with a bit of a church workday tacked onto the end, took a tragic turn Saturday.

Now a Bedford County church family is mourning the loss of a longtime member and Sunday school director, who was killed when a truck hauling brush ran over him in the Mentow Baptist Church parking lot.

Paul Linwood Mitchell, 76, died at the scene, off Virginia 43 in Huddleston, state police said. His funeral is today.

In an interview Monday, church pastor Greg Soult said Mitchell and the man driving the truck, 69-year-old Henry Woodford, were good friends and dedicated volunteers.

Soult, who has been pastor there for less than a year, said there were two other men at the church helping to trim shrubbery. Soult had been there, too, but left before the accident occurred.

“They were all very good friends, had known each other for most of their lives,” Soult said of the group.

“They had been pruning shrub bushes and gathering up the little pieces and such like that.”

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