Gray, Oscar A.

Apr. 1 Oscar A. Gray, 50 years old, of Galena Kansas, a truck driver, employed by the Eagle Picher mining Company for 18 years, was killed at 2:30 Friday afternoon, while unloading a truck at the Bird Dog Mill, northeast of Picher Oklahoma. Gray was assisting in unloading a load of 'liners' which he had hauled to the mine, using a large steel bar, when the bar slipped and struck the back of his head at the base of the skull. He was taken in a Durnil ambulance to the Picher hospital where he was pronounced dead from concussion of the brain. The body was taken in charge by the Boice undertaking company of Galena Kansas. Gray, had lived in Galena Kansas since 1920. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Gray; a son, J. Dale Gray; and a daughter, Miss Dorothy Gray, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Emma Gray of Decatur Arkansas; three sisters, Misses Ruby Gray and Opal Gray, and Miss Flora Rude, all of Decatur, and a brother, Oren Gray of Blythe California. Burial in the Hill Crest cemetery, Galena Kansas.