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By GALEN HOLLEY
Staff Writer
Chancellor Mitchell Lundy Jr. remained in stable condition in the ICU Sunday after undergoing surgery to remove his right foot.
Lundy suffered severe trauma to his lower body in a boating accident Friday afternoon on Grenada Lake.
According to Lundy’s stepmother, Judy, the chancellor had his foot removed Saturday, and was set to undergo another surgery, possibly Monday or Tuesday, to take more of his right leg off below the knee.
According to Sheriff Alton Strider, Lundy, 57, was traveling in his boat near Choctaw Landing when he hit an obstruction, fell from the boat, then was run over by it and struck by the propeller.
Judy Lundy said that another fisherman came to the chancellor’s aid and called in the accident. She identified the man as Randy Hurst of Houston.
According to Mrs. Lundy, Hurst pulled the chancellor into his own boat and used his belt as a tourniquet.
“They (medical personnel) said that he saved Mitch’s life,” said Lundy.
The chancellor was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mrs. Lundy said, adding that Hurst came to see him Sunday.
According to his stepmother, once Lundy’s surgeries are complete at NMMC, he will be sent to the JMS Burn Center in Brandon where a plastic surgeon will operate on a deep cut in his left leg.
Lundy is a chancery judge for Mississippi District 3, which covers Grenada, Montgomery, DeSoto, Panola, Tate and Yalobusha counties.
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