Robert Rose, 57, of Fiatt, died at 7 o’clock Thursday night at the Graham hospital, Canton, of burns sustained in a farm fire that morning.
His clothing caught fire when he was melting lead with a flame torch to do some plumbing at an abandoned fuel building which he recently purchased and was remodeling for a tenant house.
He was alone at the house when the fire started. He was found by passing motorists in the yard with the clothing burned off his body. He was rushed to Graham hospital where he died that night.
Fire departments from Cuba, Fairview and Canton were called to the scene of the fire, but the building burned completely.
When his wife, Mrs. Velma Rose, was called to the hospital, she collapsed. She remained at the hospital as a patient.
Robert Rose was born on a farm north of Rushville, the son of Joseph B. Rose, deceased, and Mrs. Effie Deane Rose, now of Muncie, Ind. He was a scientific farmer of Fulton county.
Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by three daughters, and three sisters. His sisters are Mrs. Helen Plining and Mrs. Catherine Akers of Muncie, Ind., and Mrs. Mabel Pittinger of Albany, Ind.
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