Cronk, Charles B.

died in the Picher Oklahoma hospital at 10:00 o'clock Saturday night, where he had been taken for treatment of injuries received in a fall a few hours previous. Returning from work Saturday evening, he stepped off the truck in front of his home. The cuff of his trousers caught in the truck and he fell backwards to the pavement. Mr. Cronk received a severe blow at the base of his skull and suffered a brain concussion from which he never regained consciousness. The accident occurred about four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Charlie Cronk was born in Springfield Missouri, Aug 4, 1890, where he spent his boyhood days. At the age of twelve, he moved to Carthage Missouri and lived there and at Webb City Missouri with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Cronk until he entered the Army during the first World War. Returning home from the Army he came to Picher Oklahoma, and was married in 1920 to Georgia Boughton, daughter of the late George Boughton. He has been employed as hoisterman in the mines all of the time except for five years when he owned and operated the Zinco filling station on North Connell Avenue, Picher. At the time of his death he was employed at the Little Bill Mine on the State Line. He was a member and past post commander of the American Legion at Picher, a member of the Knights of Pythias; and the Knights of Dokay Lodge of Joplin Missouri. Survivors, besides his wife, Mrs. Georgia Cronk, a teacher in the Picher schools since 1920; one brother, John Cronk, Los Angeles California, and two sisters, Esther Cronk, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Alice Conrad, Seattle Washington. The body lay in state at the home 106 North Connell from Monday morning until the time of the funeral hour. Services were held at the Union church at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. J. Henry Mott officiating. Burial was in the Galena Kansas cemetery...Pallbearers were Charles Hall, John Snyder, Pete Russell, Harold Jones and Claude Smith. Flower girls were members of the Pythian Sisters and Rebekah lodges.