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Obituary
Rose Hill Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Daniel Shoffit
© The Chickasha Daily Express Thursday, July 23, 1931 Minor C. Conrad Conrad's Death Due to Exhaust Fumes of Auto. Veteran Iron Foundry Man Found by Son at Chickasha Iron Works Plant. Motor Running as Body is Discovered. Was Apparently Preparing to Load Feed when Overcome; Funeral Sunday. Minor C. Conrad, age 66, was found dead in a storeroom at the Chickasha Iron Works, Second street and Colorado avenue, shortly before 8 o'clock Thursday morning. Death was attributed to carbon monoxide gas poisoning by physicians attending him at a local hospital. The motor of his car running, Mr. Conrad was found in the storeroom beneath the office at 7:45 o'clock by his son, Ralph Conrad, and nephew Emery Conrad. It was presumed that Mr. Conrad had driven his car into the small storeroom to load it with feed he planned to take to one of his farms. Indications were that he left the motor running when he went upstairs to the office after going to the plant Thursday morning about 6 o'clock and was either loading the car with the feed his son had placed in the storeroom Wednesday or was preparing to make a minor repair to the automobile motor that had been giving some trouble, when he was overcome by the fumes from the exhaust. As Ralph and Emery Conrad entered the building they found the motor of car running. The room, 25 feet square, was filled with the fumes from the exhaust and they immediately rushed Mr. Conrad to a local hospital where a lung motor from the fire department and other methods were used in a futile effort to revive him. When J.J. Conrad, a brother, arrived in another section of the plant to prepare for the day's work he did not know that is brother had been to the plant as the son and nephew of the deceased had taken him to the hospital. A native of Corruna, Indiana, Mr. Conrad came to Chickasha 27 years ago and established the Chickasha Iron Works with his brother in 1904. He was married to Mrs. Mantie Davidson here 23 years ago. He was a member of Chickasha Masonic lodge No. 94 and the First Christian church. Those who survive him are his wife; one son, Ralph of Chickasha; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Lutz of Eldon, Iowa and Mrs. Harry Hammond of Denver; two brothers. J.J. Conrad of Chickasha and D.E. Conrad of Eldon, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. George Walter of Chickasha. Funeral services will be conducted from the First Christian church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Clifford B. James, pastor, officiating and interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery. |