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TURNER S. ARNOLD

ENGINEER DIES VERY SUDDENLY AT PAGE-HERSEY

T.S. ARNOLD DISCOVERED ON FLOOR OF WASHROOM IN STRICKEN CONDITION

PASSES AWAY WITHIN TEN MINUTES OF BEING FOUND-NO INQUEST

[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 26 November 1931]

With startling suddenness, Turner S. Arnold, engineer for the plant of Page-Hersey Tubes Ltd., Crowland, died of heart disease this morning in the wash room at the plant, Mr. Arnold was found there by the plant janitor, lying on the floor, and a local physician was summoned, Mr. Arnold dying within ten minutes of being found. Dr. S. Nixon Davis was called, and stated no inquest would be necessary. Mr. Arnold was in his 49th year, and had lived in Welland about three and a half years. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.

Mr. Arnold had apparently been in good health and only a few moments before going to the wash room had been in conversation with officials of the plant.

Mr. Arnold came to Welland from Butler, Pa., in 1928 to instal a furnace for the Page-Hersey Tubes Ltd, and has been the company’s engineer since that time. He was born in Clarion, Penna., and was a member of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian church. Surviving relatives are the widow Mrs. Arnold, two sons, Jack and Dick, at home, Welland; two daughters by a first marriage, the Misses Helen and Edna in Philadelphia; and three brothers, one at McKeesport, Penna., another at Philadelphia, and a third at Clarion, Penna.

The remains will be shipped to Clarion, and the funeral will be held there at a date not yet arranged.

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