Husband Norman Albert Becraft Sr [582]
Born: 3 Oct 1903 - Maryland, United States 1
Christened:
Died: 27 Jun 1974 - St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States 1
Buried: - Lakeview Memorial Garden, Eldersburg, Carroll Co, MD
FamilySearch ID: PWL3-SPC
Find A Grave ID: 63060300
Father: George E. Becraft [420] (1866-1919)
Mother: Annie E. Burdette [579] (1872-1937)
Marriage: 25 Aug 1928 - Howard, Maryland, United States 2
Events
• Soc Sec Num: 217-03-4645.
• He worked as an Auto Mechanic Woodbine MD.
• Event: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 4 Sep 1936. Mother, Two Daughters Killed by Gas in Silo
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.
• Event: The Frederick Post, 2 Jan 1951. ... destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Becraft in Woodbine.
No one was in the house at the time, Mr. and Mrs. Becraft were visiting a son who lives in an...
• Event: The Frederick Post, 29 Jun 1974. 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...
• His funeral was held The Frederick Post on 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...
• His obituary was published in The Frederick Post on 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.
Wife Pearl Vernett Green [751]
Born: 25 Aug 1897 1
Christened:
Died: 24 Jan 1969 - Woodbine, Carroll, Maryland, United States 1
Buried: 27 Jan 1969 - Lakeview Memorial Garden, Eldersburg, Carroll Co, MD
FamilySearch ID: GTXB-5H8
Other Spouse: Vernon R Wolfe 3 [7663] (1893-1927)
Events
• Soc Sec Num: 215-20-7784.
• Her obituary was published in The Frederick Post on 25 Jan 1969. MRS. PEARL V. BECRAFT
Mrs. Pearl V. BECRAFT, 71, of Woodbine died at her home Friday morning. She was born in Carroll County, a daughter of the late George A. and Margaret Hatfield Green. She is survived by her husband, Norman A. BECRAFT Sr.; one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Moxley of Woodbine; two sons, George Wolfe and Norman A. Becraft, Jr., both of Woodbine; five sisters, Mrs. Mamie Porter of Woodbine, Mrs. Mary Rippeon of Woodbine, Mrs. Nellie Hargett of Baltimore, Mrs. Effie Justice of Woodbine and Mrs. Clara Woodward of Woodbine; seven grand-children and one great-grand-child.
Mrs. Becraft was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church in Woodbine.
Friends may call at the Waltz Funeral Home, Liberty Road, in Winfield on Saturday from 7-9 pm and on Sunday from 2-9 pm.
Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 2 pm Monday. The Rev. Norman C. Hoffeld, her pastor, will officiate.
Interment will be in Lakeview Memorial Gardens near Eldersburg.
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• Her funeral was held The Frederick Post on 28 Jan 1969. Mrs. Pearl V. Becraft
Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl V. Becraft, who died at...
Children
1 F Becraft [755] (details suppressed for this person)
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2 M Norman Albert "Jake" Becraft Jr [753]
Born: 16 Sep 1929 - Woodbine, Carroll, Maryland, United States
Christened:
Died: 26 Aug 2013 - Carroll Hospital Center, Westminster, Carroll Co, MD
Cremated:
FamilySearch ID: GDLS-W7B
Find A Grave ID: 216987929
Spouse: Dorothy May Morgan [908] (1931-2020)
Marr: 3 Feb 1947 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA
Notes: Marriage (Pearl Vernett Green):
Becraft, Norman