Son of Thomas O. Franks and Margaret A. Halsell.
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Blaze Fatal to G.D. Franks
Gayle Douglas Franks, 35, brother of Sherman's city manager, Garland T. Franks, died Tuesday morning when flames swept his upstairs Oak Cliff apartment at 418 West Sixth, near Haines.
Spectators and firemen battling the blaze were unaware of Franks' presence in the apartment until after the fire was put out. He was alone.
Firemen, going through the gutted west apartment, found his body inches from the apartment's back door and safety.
Justice of the Peace W. E. (Bill) Richburg returned a verdict of accidental death due to suffocation.
Fire Marshal W. G. Burns said the fire started in Franks' apartment. Its cause had not been determined late Tuesday. Burns estimated damage to the four-unit brick apartment house at $3,500, and to the contents, $2,000.
Franks, a jeweler and musician, had worked for Sears, Roebuck & Company and for Titche-Goettinger's, but was preparing to open a shop of his own at the time of his death.
Mrs. Mable Truly Franks, Franks' wife, was at work at the time of the fire.
Besides his wife and brother, Franks is survived by his mother, Mrs. R. L. Poteet, Houston; his father, Thomas O. Franks, Mineola, Wood County, and another brother, Byron Thomas Franks, Nocona, Montague County.
- Dallas Morning News
October 15, 1947
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Blaze Fatal to G.D. Franks
Gayle Douglas Franks, 35, brother of Sherman's city manager, Garland T. Franks, died Tuesday morning when flames swept his upstairs Oak Cliff apartment at 418 West Sixth, near Haines.
Spectators and firemen battling the blaze were unaware of Franks' presence in the apartment until after the fire was put out. He was alone.
Firemen, going through the gutted west apartment, found his body inches from the apartment's back door and safety.
Justice of the Peace W. E. (Bill) Richburg returned a verdict of accidental death due to suffocation.
Fire Marshal W. G. Burns said the fire started in Franks' apartment. Its cause had not been determined late Tuesday. Burns estimated damage to the four-unit brick apartment house at $3,500, and to the contents, $2,000.
Franks, a jeweler and musician, had worked for Sears, Roebuck & Company and for Titche-Goettinger's, but was preparing to open a shop of his own at the time of his death.
Mrs. Mable Truly Franks, Franks' wife, was at work at the time of the fire.
Besides his wife and brother, Franks is survived by his mother, Mrs. R. L. Poteet, Houston; his father, Thomas O. Franks, Mineola, Wood County, and another brother, Byron Thomas Franks, Nocona, Montague County.
- Dallas Morning News
October 15, 1947
Son of Thomas O. Franks and Margaret A. Halsell.
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Blaze Fatal to G.D. Franks
Gayle Douglas Franks, 35, brother of Sherman's city manager, Garland T. Franks, died Tuesday morning when flames swept his upstairs Oak Cliff apartment at 418 West Sixth, near Haines.
Spectators and firemen battling the blaze were unaware of Franks' presence in the apartment until after the fire was put out. He was alone.
Firemen, going through the gutted west apartment, found his body inches from the apartment's back door and safety.
Justice of the Peace W. E. (Bill) Richburg returned a verdict of accidental death due to suffocation.
Fire Marshal W. G. Burns said the fire started in Franks' apartment. Its cause had not been determined late Tuesday. Burns estimated damage to the four-unit brick apartment house at $3,500, and to the contents, $2,000.
Franks, a jeweler and musician, had worked for Sears, Roebuck & Company and for Titche-Goettinger's, but was preparing to open a shop of his own at the time of his death.
Mrs. Mable Truly Franks, Franks' wife, was at work at the time of the fire.
Besides his wife and brother, Franks is survived by his mother, Mrs. R. L. Poteet, Houston; his father, Thomas O. Franks, Mineola, Wood County, and another brother, Byron Thomas Franks, Nocona, Montague County.
- Dallas Morning News
October 15, 1947
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Blaze Fatal to G.D. Franks
Gayle Douglas Franks, 35, brother of Sherman's city manager, Garland T. Franks, died Tuesday morning when flames swept his upstairs Oak Cliff apartment at 418 West Sixth, near Haines.
Spectators and firemen battling the blaze were unaware of Franks' presence in the apartment until after the fire was put out. He was alone.
Firemen, going through the gutted west apartment, found his body inches from the apartment's back door and safety.
Justice of the Peace W. E. (Bill) Richburg returned a verdict of accidental death due to suffocation.
Fire Marshal W. G. Burns said the fire started in Franks' apartment. Its cause had not been determined late Tuesday. Burns estimated damage to the four-unit brick apartment house at $3,500, and to the contents, $2,000.
Franks, a jeweler and musician, had worked for Sears, Roebuck & Company and for Titche-Goettinger's, but was preparing to open a shop of his own at the time of his death.
Mrs. Mable Truly Franks, Franks' wife, was at work at the time of the fire.
Besides his wife and brother, Franks is survived by his mother, Mrs. R. L. Poteet, Houston; his father, Thomas O. Franks, Mineola, Wood County, and another brother, Byron Thomas Franks, Nocona, Montague County.
- Dallas Morning News
October 15, 1947
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