Norman Albert Becraft Sr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Oct 1903 - MD 1
Christening:
Death: 27 Jun 1974 - St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1
Burial: in Lakeview Memorial Garden, Eldersburg, Carroll Co, MD
Cause of Death:
AFN :
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 217-03-4645
• Occupation, Auto Mechanic Woodbine MD
• Event, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 4 Sep 1936
Mother, Two Daughters Killed by Gas in Silo• Event, The Frederick Post, 2 Jan 1951
Popular Springs, MD, Sept 4 - (AP) - Swift-acting, suffocating en-silage gas -- almost pure carbon dioxide given off by fermenting cattle feed-- left a mother, her nine-year-old daughter, and her foster-daughter dead today.
Anna Richards, 9, playing with two small boys, fell eight feet into an old underground ice house, converted recently into a silo. Screams of her playmates brought Mrs. Ella Malinda Richards, 37, her mother, to the pit.
Mrs. Richards jumped into the dank hole, sought to lift the child and was overcome by fumes from the rotting green corn husts. Mary Sine, 19, Anna's foster-sister, lowered a heavy ladder into the pit descended to the level of the husks, and dragged Anna's body across the ladder's lower rung before she, too collapsed.
Cries of the boys, William Hood, 6, and his brother, Beverly, 4, mean-while attracted neighbors. A passing motorist, unidentified, stopped his car and ran to the pit. Halfway down the ladder, the gas overpowered him and he was dragged back to the surface. An employee of a nearby garage, Norman Becraft, aided in pulling up the ladder, with Anna's body over the lower rung. Then lowering the ladder, Becraft descended into the silo and picked up Miss Sine. Weakening effects of the gas forced his to drop her, however, and pull himself out of the hole, semi-conscious.
Hooks and ropes finally were used to bring the bodies of Mrs. Richards and Miss Sine to the surface. Attempts at artificial respiration were unsuccessful.
John Richards, Anna's father, was at another farm with his only other child, Calvin, 11, when the tragedy occurred.
... destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Becraft in Woodbine.• Event, The Frederick Post, 29 Jun 1974
No one was in the house at the time, Mr. and Mrs. Becraft were visiting a son who lives in an...
The death notice of Mr. Norman A. Becraft, Sr. which appeared in Friday's New-Post, should have read he is survived by a son, mr. Norman A. Becraft...• Funeral, The Frederick Post, 2 Jul 1974
Funeral services for Mr. Norman Albert Becraft Sr., of Woodbine, husband of the late Pearl V. Becraft, who died Thursday, June 27, at St. Agnes...• Obituary, The Frederick Post, 2 Jul 1974
Mr. Norman A. Becraft Sr.
Funeral services for Mr. Norman Albert Becraft Sr., of Woodbine, husband of the late Pearl V. Becraft, whodied Thursday June 27, at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, were held at 2 pm on Monday July 1, at the Waltz-Burrier Funeral Home, Liberty Road in Winfield. The Rev. R. Donald Clare, pastor of the Calvary Lutheran Church at Woodbine, officiated.
Pallbearers were Paul Harrison, Robert Harrison, George Rippeon, Clarence Layton, John Woodward, and Emil Swanson.
Interment was in Lakeview Memorial Cemetery at Eldersburg.
Parents
Father: George E. Becraft
Mother: Annie E. Burdette
Spouses and Children
1. *Pearl Vernett Green
Marriage: 25 Aug 1928 - Howard Co, MD 2
Status:
Children:
1. Norman Albert Becraft Jr
2. Nellie Becraft
3. Becraft
Notes
Marriage Notes (Pearl Vernett Green)
Becraft, Norman25 Woodbine, MD Wolfe, Pearl V. 31 Woodbine, MD 25 Aug 1928
Sources
1. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index.
2. Howard County Marriage Records.