Dallas Morning News
February 15, 1940
 page 16
Supply Firm  Official Found Dead From Gas

Special to the News
Denison ,Texas, Feb 14.--- Harold Crabtree, 35, secretary of an auto supply company store here  was found by his wife on the floor of the bathroom of their home at 1 a.m. Wednesday. The unlighted gas was on and stockings had been stuffed beneath the closed bathroom door. Judge E. A.Wright, Coroner , is investigating. He called after a local physician had visited the  scene at a call from Mrs. Crabtree.
Funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Mr. Crabtree's birthday, with burial at Fairview. Besides his wife he leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Crabtree; a brother, Fred Crabtree, and two sisters, Mrs Bryan Price and Mrs. H.G. Edmiston,
all of Denison.
Born in Gordonville, he received his schooling at Kingston, Okla., and at Denison.