Carlton Claude Wilson (1954)
WILSON, POWERS, FUSON, KINGERY, BRADY, TIDRICK
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/18/2012 at 13:46:54
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 24, 1954, Pg 9CARL WILSON DIES AT AMES
Gas Fumes Inhaled While Fighting Fire Result in Fatal Illness
Carl C. Wilson, a former resident of Winterset and member of a well-known family here, died Wednesday, March 17, at Ames. He was 54 years of age.
Mr. Wilson’s death resulted from complications which followed injuries he sustained in fighting a fire at the Mid-Continent Warehouse in Ames 12 days prior to his death. He had inhaled gas fumes in fighting the blaze there.
Mr. Wilson had lived in Ames since 1923. He was born at Winterset in 1899. He graduated from Winterset high school with the class of 1920. He was one of the outstanding athletes on the football team for several years and was captain of the 1919 football squad.
He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Powers of Winterset. He also leaves a son, Duane Wilson of Newton; a daughter, Janet, a student at Texas State college for Women, in Denton, Texas, two grandsons, his mother, Mrs. Clark Wilson of Winterset; four brothers, Rollie Wilson of Long Beach, Calif.; Roy Wilson of Belle Fourche, S. Dak., and Eldon and Ray Wilson of Winterset; and four sisters, Mrs. Grace Fuson of Nampa, Ida., Mrs. Ethel Kingery of Kimball, S. Dak., and Mrs. Jesse Brady and Mrs. Lorena Tidrick of Winterset.
Funeral services were held Saturday from the Adams Funeral home in Ames conducted by the ------------. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.
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