Date : 05 Jan 1940
Location : Memorial Park Cemetery, Waterloo, IA
With Pearl, his 4-year-old English bull dog. dead at his feet, William Maurice Reid, 23, was found asphyxiated at 4:45 p. m. Tuesday in the cab of a truck in a gas-filled garage on a farm his father operates three miles south of Waterloo on highway 63.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p. m. Friday at the O'Keefe & Towne chapel by Rev. H. M. Singer, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist church. Burial will be in Memorial cemetery.
Reid had been sitting in the truck for about two hours before he was found by a younger brother, Clair, who had just returned home from school at Orange township.
The truck motor was running and the door of the cab was ajar when Maurice was found, his brother said. The younger boy reported the victim was on the right side of the cab, leaning against the side, with his right foot hanging out the door. The garage was tightly closed.
The dog was on the floor of the cab. He had been young Reid's special pet and often rode in the truck with his master. William Reid, father of the dead youth, said Maurice had gone to the garage about 2 p. m. to warm up the truck motor preparatory to doing some hauling.
The father said he heard the motor of the truck running in the garage but thought Maurice had started it and then gone to do other chores.
Coroner Sidney D. Smith said death was accidental, due to asphyxiation. There will be no inquest.
William Maurice Reid was born Jan. 21, 1916, on a farm a mile and a half east of Waterloo on highway No. 20, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Reid.
He lived with his parents on several farms near Waterloo and had resided for the last three years on the place south of the city. He attended school in East Waterloo township.
Surviving are the father and two brothers, Clair and Robert, at home. An aunt, Mrs. O. P. Snader, resides in Waterloo at 421 Conger street and three aunts and an uncle live in Waverly, Independence and Dunkerton, Ia., and Philadelphia, Pa.
Reid's mother died in November, 1934.
Waterloo Courier - Jan 3, 1940
