Death Notices of Irvin N. SHOEMAKER (1931); Chester County, Pennsylvania

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19 Mar 1931

Irvin N. Shoemaker who was found in an unconscious condition in the garage of 
his father P. D. Shoemaker in Parkesburg on Tuesday of last week and who had 
been lying critically ill in the Coatesville hospital ever since, died at the 
institution about ten o’clock last night.
  Although he appeared to improve at times to a slight extent he never recovered 
sufficiently to tell what happened at the garage.  It was definitely determined 
by his physicians, however, that his illness was caused by monoxide poisoning.  
The young man was in his twenty-fifth year and was well known about Parkesburg 
and Coatesville where he had lived all his life.
  On Tuesday last week, he ran the car into the garage after having taken his 
mother to see a physician.  A half hour or so later his father heard a noise in 
the garage and when he went to investigate he found the young man lying 
unconscious on a carpet under the machine with some tools by his side.  A 
physician was summoned and for a time there was some question regarding his 
illness.  
  When he was found the engine of the car was not running and a door of the 
garage was partly open.  It is thought, however, that he had found something the 
matter with the muffler when he ran the car into the garage and in attempting to 
repair it he got a dose of the gas.  When he was found there were evidences of a 
struggle he had made to get from under the machine.
  A few hours after he was found the young man was brought to the hospital where 
he was visited several times by a Philadelphia specialist.  Despite everything 
that could be done he continued to get worse and since yesterday morning his 
condition had been extremely critical.  Members of his family were at his 
bedside last night when he passed away.
  Surviving him are his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Marion Hoffman, 
of Sadsburyville; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Shoemaker, of Parkesburg; two 
brothers, Albert Shoemaker, of Pittsburgh, and Kenneth Shoemaker, a senior, at 
Penn State College, and a sister, Mrs. Kenneth B. Ward, of Ventnor, N. J.  
Arrangements for the funeral had not been announced at noon today.

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19 Mar 1941

10 Years Ago.
  Irvin N. Shoemaker, of Parkesburg, passed away at Coatesville hospital nine 
days after he had been found unconscious in the garage of his father, P. D. 
Shoemaker.  He was a victim of monoxide poisoning.