Frank J. Rose (1929)

GODSMAN, KENDRICK, ROSE, WAITE

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:32

The Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas
July 28, 1929

VETERAN EMPLOYE OF MISSOURI PACIFIC IS DEAD AT AGE OF 69

Frank J. Rose, Resident of Wichita Many Years, Dies in Hutchinson Hospital

VICITIM OF HEART ATTACK

Frank J. Rose, 69, oldest active employe in point of service on the Wichita division of the Missouri Pacific railroad and for many years a resident of Wichita, died suddenly Saturday in a Hutchinson hospital following a heart attack.

Mr. Rose left Wichita shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday on the Hutchinson extension of the Sunflower. He was in the best of spirits, according to friends, and apparently was in good health, carrying on his work as conductor until shortly before the train arrived in Hutchinson.

On reaching Hutchinson at 9:40 a.m. Mr. Rose complained more seriously of the heart attack and was taken to a room. From there he was ordered by a physician to the hospital where he died within a few hours.

Mr. Rose was born in Madison county, Iowa, June 18, 1860, and came to Kansas when but a boy. He entered Missouri Pacific service at Fort Scott as a brakeman in March, 1881. He was promoted to conductor on January 1, 1887, and moved to Wichita in that year. He would have been eligible to retirement on a pension in June, 1930. Mr. Rose was a member of the Elks and Woodmen lodges and the brotherhood of railway conductors.

Surviving the veteran railroader are his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Rose, 63 North Waco avenue; two daughters, Bessie Rose Kendrick, at home and Mrs. Ileene Waite, Rose Hill; a son, Delos, who arrived here early yesterday en route to his new home in Kansas City; a sister, Mrs. Paul B. Godsman, Denver; three brothers, John, St. Louis, Harry, Montrose, Colo, and J. L. Rose, Tulsa, and three grandsons. Gill mortuary is in charge.

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