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OBITUARY Son of Man Who Build Trinity Steamer Dies; Services Set
Tuesday
Frank M. Husung, 55, of Farmers Branch, son of an early-day Trinity River
steamboat builder, died Monday morning in a hospital after a four month's
illness.
His father, W. C. Husung, still living in Dallas at the age of 88, built the old
steamboat, Dallas, during the closing years of the last century, and with a
volunteer crew took it down the river to the Gulf and back. The family has lived
in Dallas since the seventies.
Mr. Husung was born in Dallas and attended public schools here. For many hears
he built roads in South America for the Standard Oil Company. He settled down on
a farm at Farmers Branch some ten years ago.
The Rev. A. L. Laws will conduct funeral services at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
Farmers Branch Baptist Churchy. Survivors are his wife,
Mrs. Alfreda Husung;
four children, Betty Joyce Husung,
Jessilyn Husung and Frank M. Husung Jr. of
Farmers Branch and Mrs. J. B. Bell of Dallas; his father; two brothers, Harry R.
Husung of Dallas and W. A. Husung of Winnsboro, and eight sisters, Mrs. M. A.
Forbes, Mrs. J. H. Hicks, Mrs. R. P. Caruth, Mrs. Ida Pope and Mrs. W. F.
English of Dallas, Mrs. E. D. Bewley of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Beatrice Todd of Los
Angeles and Mrs. W. H. Ray of Cedar Hill.
The Dallas Morning News - April 11, 1939
Submitted by Edward Lynn
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