Husband was Duncan Trapp
Father: Arthur Gladish
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Perry
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Article from the Wills Point Chronicle, 09-26-1969
A terrible human tragedy unfolded at mid-day on September 8 in a rural community eight miles northeast of Wills Point when two Dallas women were suddenly engulfed in flames in a house that literally exploded in an instant when a cigarette was lit. Mrs. Lotte E. Trapp, 56, died in a Dallas hospital six days after the accident. Mrs. Trapp’s sister, Mrs. Cecil A. Stanford, 55, remains critically ill at Oak Cliff Medical and Surgical Clinic with second degree burns over more that 40 percent of her body. (Bessie M. Stanford would die on October 16, 1969 from the burns she sustained in the fire.) Mrs. Trapp is survived by her husband, Duncan Trapp; one son and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, who own considerable acreage in the Board Community, recently purchased 50 acres of land out of what is known locally as the Ike Johnson farm, from Mrs. Sherman Johnson. The house was located on the newly acquired land. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford also purchased the furnishings along with the house and were spending some time there on weekends. Upon investigating the fire, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of Edgewood discovered that a part had been removed from the stove that caused the house to be filled with butane gas from unclosed pipes. The nature of butane gas is such that, if undisturbed, it will remain in an area for an indefinite period of time. Mrs. Jones is the overseer of the Stanford property at Board. The two badly burned women got in their car, drove through Edgewood and were near the Fred Hutchins home on the Edgewood-Canton road when they stopped and asked a construction flagman to help them. They were driven on to Canton and later to a Dallas hospital where Mrs. Trapp died.
Father: Arthur Gladish
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Perry
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Article from the Wills Point Chronicle, 09-26-1969
A terrible human tragedy unfolded at mid-day on September 8 in a rural community eight miles northeast of Wills Point when two Dallas women were suddenly engulfed in flames in a house that literally exploded in an instant when a cigarette was lit. Mrs. Lotte E. Trapp, 56, died in a Dallas hospital six days after the accident. Mrs. Trapp’s sister, Mrs. Cecil A. Stanford, 55, remains critically ill at Oak Cliff Medical and Surgical Clinic with second degree burns over more that 40 percent of her body. (Bessie M. Stanford would die on October 16, 1969 from the burns she sustained in the fire.) Mrs. Trapp is survived by her husband, Duncan Trapp; one son and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, who own considerable acreage in the Board Community, recently purchased 50 acres of land out of what is known locally as the Ike Johnson farm, from Mrs. Sherman Johnson. The house was located on the newly acquired land. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford also purchased the furnishings along with the house and were spending some time there on weekends. Upon investigating the fire, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of Edgewood discovered that a part had been removed from the stove that caused the house to be filled with butane gas from unclosed pipes. The nature of butane gas is such that, if undisturbed, it will remain in an area for an indefinite period of time. Mrs. Jones is the overseer of the Stanford property at Board. The two badly burned women got in their car, drove through Edgewood and were near the Fred Hutchins home on the Edgewood-Canton road when they stopped and asked a construction flagman to help them. They were driven on to Canton and later to a Dallas hospital where Mrs. Trapp died.
Husband was Duncan Trapp
Father: Arthur Gladish
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Perry
******************************
Article from the Wills Point Chronicle, 09-26-1969
A terrible human tragedy unfolded at mid-day on September 8 in a rural community eight miles northeast of Wills Point when two Dallas women were suddenly engulfed in flames in a house that literally exploded in an instant when a cigarette was lit. Mrs. Lotte E. Trapp, 56, died in a Dallas hospital six days after the accident. Mrs. Trapp’s sister, Mrs. Cecil A. Stanford, 55, remains critically ill at Oak Cliff Medical and Surgical Clinic with second degree burns over more that 40 percent of her body. (Bessie M. Stanford would die on October 16, 1969 from the burns she sustained in the fire.) Mrs. Trapp is survived by her husband, Duncan Trapp; one son and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, who own considerable acreage in the Board Community, recently purchased 50 acres of land out of what is known locally as the Ike Johnson farm, from Mrs. Sherman Johnson. The house was located on the newly acquired land. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford also purchased the furnishings along with the house and were spending some time there on weekends. Upon investigating the fire, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of Edgewood discovered that a part had been removed from the stove that caused the house to be filled with butane gas from unclosed pipes. The nature of butane gas is such that, if undisturbed, it will remain in an area for an indefinite period of time. Mrs. Jones is the overseer of the Stanford property at Board. The two badly burned women got in their car, drove through Edgewood and were near the Fred Hutchins home on the Edgewood-Canton road when they stopped and asked a construction flagman to help them. They were driven on to Canton and later to a Dallas hospital where Mrs. Trapp died.
Father: Arthur Gladish
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Perry
******************************
Article from the Wills Point Chronicle, 09-26-1969
A terrible human tragedy unfolded at mid-day on September 8 in a rural community eight miles northeast of Wills Point when two Dallas women were suddenly engulfed in flames in a house that literally exploded in an instant when a cigarette was lit. Mrs. Lotte E. Trapp, 56, died in a Dallas hospital six days after the accident. Mrs. Trapp’s sister, Mrs. Cecil A. Stanford, 55, remains critically ill at Oak Cliff Medical and Surgical Clinic with second degree burns over more that 40 percent of her body. (Bessie M. Stanford would die on October 16, 1969 from the burns she sustained in the fire.) Mrs. Trapp is survived by her husband, Duncan Trapp; one son and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, who own considerable acreage in the Board Community, recently purchased 50 acres of land out of what is known locally as the Ike Johnson farm, from Mrs. Sherman Johnson. The house was located on the newly acquired land. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford also purchased the furnishings along with the house and were spending some time there on weekends. Upon investigating the fire, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of Edgewood discovered that a part had been removed from the stove that caused the house to be filled with butane gas from unclosed pipes. The nature of butane gas is such that, if undisturbed, it will remain in an area for an indefinite period of time. Mrs. Jones is the overseer of the Stanford property at Board. The two badly burned women got in their car, drove through Edgewood and were near the Fred Hutchins home on the Edgewood-Canton road when they stopped and asked a construction flagman to help them. They were driven on to Canton and later to a Dallas hospital where Mrs. Trapp died.
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