The Death of Joe's Brother, Fletcher Nolan Houston (as told by his daughter, Aleta Jo Houston Grotjan)
The family was sitting around the radio listening to the news of the war as they did every night. The ships which had been sunk were being read and the USS Ingraham was announced. Joe said "Oh damn, that's Pete's ship". Jo said that was the only time she ever saw her father cry. In the days that followed they got a telegram from the Navy stating that the ship had been lost and that Fletcher was presumed dead. Later another telegram followed that he was being declared "Lost in Action".
Joseph Houston of Prairie Hill Fatally Injured
-Worker Hit on Head By Wood Pulled From River by Dragline-
Joesph Worth Houston 55, Prairie Hill, an employee of the State Highway Department, suffered a fatal injury about 1:15 p.m. yesterday while working at the Chariton River bridge 7 1/2 miles north of Salisbury on Route 129.
He was taken to Woodland Hospital at Moberly, where he died 2 1/2 hours later of a "massive brain injury", according to hospital authorities. He never regained consciousness after he was hurt.
-Working at River-
Nova Farthing, Prairie Hill, supervisor at the highway department building at Prairie Hill, said Houston was injured when he was struck on the head by a piece of wood that was being pulled out of a pile of drift in the river channel by a dragline. Operating the dragline was Roy Smith, Kirksville, a highway department employee.
The injured man was taken to a clinic at Salisbury, then was brought to Moberly by ambulance.
Mr. Houston's wife died in July of this year.
Surviving are three daughters, Sharon Houston, Prairie Hill; Mrs. Aleta Jo Grotjan, Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Joyce Winkler, Kansas City; one son, Keith Houston, Trimble; his mother, Mrs. Fannie Houston, Armstrong; two brothers, Guy C. Houston, Nickerson,, Kan., and Carl W. Houston, Renton, Wash.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Minor, Fayette.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Prairie Hill Christian Church, with the Rev. Mr. Pelfry officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie Hill cemetery.
The body will be at the Winkelmeyer chapel in Salisbury until 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
-Obituary thanks to contributor James Grotjan
The family was sitting around the radio listening to the news of the war as they did every night. The ships which had been sunk were being read and the USS Ingraham was announced. Joe said "Oh damn, that's Pete's ship". Jo said that was the only time she ever saw her father cry. In the days that followed they got a telegram from the Navy stating that the ship had been lost and that Fletcher was presumed dead. Later another telegram followed that he was being declared "Lost in Action".
Joseph Houston of Prairie Hill Fatally Injured
-Worker Hit on Head By Wood Pulled From River by Dragline-
Joesph Worth Houston 55, Prairie Hill, an employee of the State Highway Department, suffered a fatal injury about 1:15 p.m. yesterday while working at the Chariton River bridge 7 1/2 miles north of Salisbury on Route 129.
He was taken to Woodland Hospital at Moberly, where he died 2 1/2 hours later of a "massive brain injury", according to hospital authorities. He never regained consciousness after he was hurt.
-Working at River-
Nova Farthing, Prairie Hill, supervisor at the highway department building at Prairie Hill, said Houston was injured when he was struck on the head by a piece of wood that was being pulled out of a pile of drift in the river channel by a dragline. Operating the dragline was Roy Smith, Kirksville, a highway department employee.
The injured man was taken to a clinic at Salisbury, then was brought to Moberly by ambulance.
Mr. Houston's wife died in July of this year.
Surviving are three daughters, Sharon Houston, Prairie Hill; Mrs. Aleta Jo Grotjan, Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Joyce Winkler, Kansas City; one son, Keith Houston, Trimble; his mother, Mrs. Fannie Houston, Armstrong; two brothers, Guy C. Houston, Nickerson,, Kan., and Carl W. Houston, Renton, Wash.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Minor, Fayette.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Prairie Hill Christian Church, with the Rev. Mr. Pelfry officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie Hill cemetery.
The body will be at the Winkelmeyer chapel in Salisbury until 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
-Obituary thanks to contributor James Grotjan
The Death of Joe's Brother, Fletcher Nolan Houston (as told by his daughter, Aleta Jo Houston Grotjan)
The family was sitting around the radio listening to the news of the war as they did every night. The ships which had been sunk were being read and the USS Ingraham was announced. Joe said "Oh damn, that's Pete's ship". Jo said that was the only time she ever saw her father cry. In the days that followed they got a telegram from the Navy stating that the ship had been lost and that Fletcher was presumed dead. Later another telegram followed that he was being declared "Lost in Action".
Joseph Houston of Prairie Hill Fatally Injured
-Worker Hit on Head By Wood Pulled From River by Dragline-
Joesph Worth Houston 55, Prairie Hill, an employee of the State Highway Department, suffered a fatal injury about 1:15 p.m. yesterday while working at the Chariton River bridge 7 1/2 miles north of Salisbury on Route 129.
He was taken to Woodland Hospital at Moberly, where he died 2 1/2 hours later of a "massive brain injury", according to hospital authorities. He never regained consciousness after he was hurt.
-Working at River-
Nova Farthing, Prairie Hill, supervisor at the highway department building at Prairie Hill, said Houston was injured when he was struck on the head by a piece of wood that was being pulled out of a pile of drift in the river channel by a dragline. Operating the dragline was Roy Smith, Kirksville, a highway department employee.
The injured man was taken to a clinic at Salisbury, then was brought to Moberly by ambulance.
Mr. Houston's wife died in July of this year.
Surviving are three daughters, Sharon Houston, Prairie Hill; Mrs. Aleta Jo Grotjan, Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Joyce Winkler, Kansas City; one son, Keith Houston, Trimble; his mother, Mrs. Fannie Houston, Armstrong; two brothers, Guy C. Houston, Nickerson,, Kan., and Carl W. Houston, Renton, Wash.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Minor, Fayette.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Prairie Hill Christian Church, with the Rev. Mr. Pelfry officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie Hill cemetery.
The body will be at the Winkelmeyer chapel in Salisbury until 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
-Obituary thanks to contributor James Grotjan
The family was sitting around the radio listening to the news of the war as they did every night. The ships which had been sunk were being read and the USS Ingraham was announced. Joe said "Oh damn, that's Pete's ship". Jo said that was the only time she ever saw her father cry. In the days that followed they got a telegram from the Navy stating that the ship had been lost and that Fletcher was presumed dead. Later another telegram followed that he was being declared "Lost in Action".
Joseph Houston of Prairie Hill Fatally Injured
-Worker Hit on Head By Wood Pulled From River by Dragline-
Joesph Worth Houston 55, Prairie Hill, an employee of the State Highway Department, suffered a fatal injury about 1:15 p.m. yesterday while working at the Chariton River bridge 7 1/2 miles north of Salisbury on Route 129.
He was taken to Woodland Hospital at Moberly, where he died 2 1/2 hours later of a "massive brain injury", according to hospital authorities. He never regained consciousness after he was hurt.
-Working at River-
Nova Farthing, Prairie Hill, supervisor at the highway department building at Prairie Hill, said Houston was injured when he was struck on the head by a piece of wood that was being pulled out of a pile of drift in the river channel by a dragline. Operating the dragline was Roy Smith, Kirksville, a highway department employee.
The injured man was taken to a clinic at Salisbury, then was brought to Moberly by ambulance.
Mr. Houston's wife died in July of this year.
Surviving are three daughters, Sharon Houston, Prairie Hill; Mrs. Aleta Jo Grotjan, Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Joyce Winkler, Kansas City; one son, Keith Houston, Trimble; his mother, Mrs. Fannie Houston, Armstrong; two brothers, Guy C. Houston, Nickerson,, Kan., and Carl W. Houston, Renton, Wash.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Minor, Fayette.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Prairie Hill Christian Church, with the Rev. Mr. Pelfry officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie Hill cemetery.
The body will be at the Winkelmeyer chapel in Salisbury until 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
-Obituary thanks to contributor James Grotjan
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