Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Dallas Morning News June 8, 1978 edition 125-foot fall kills Grand Prairie man A Grand Prairie man fell 125 feet to his death Wednesday morning in Port Arthur, police said. Officers said Bob McConnico, 34, was riding a conveyor belt at the Great Lakes Carbon Plant in Port Arthur when he fell. He was dead on arrival at Park Place Hospital at 8:45 a.m. .... Services were set for 11 a.m. Friday at the Southland Funeral Chapel, Grand Prairie. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Birdston Cemetery at Streetman, Freestone County.