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Leonard Adam Morrow

Birth	:	30 Nov 1919
Death	:	12 Jan 1957
Burial	:	St. Mary's Churchyard, Sprotbrough, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, England
Coordinate	:	53.5122280, -1.1878590
Plot	:	386
Description	:	Plot 386 : - Neil Louis Morrow 1885-1968 - his wife, Agnes Jane McFarlane 1891-1965 - their son, Leonard Adam Morrow 1919-1957 ---------------------------------------- Obituary - Perth Courier - (source : Morrow Family Newspaper Clippings at Lanark County Genweb) - Sudden Passing of Leonard Morrow - The village of Snow Road and Surrounding communities were saddened and shocked on Saturday, January 12th, to hear of the sudden passing of Leonard Adam Morrow. Deceased was born November 30, 1919 . He was the sixth of seven sons born to Neil Morrow and his wife, the former Agnes McFarlane of Darling Township. He was employed with the Ontario... Read More	Plot 386 : - Neil Louis Morrow 1885-1968 - his wife, Agnes Jane McFarlane 1891-1965 - their son, Leonard Adam Morrow 1919-1957 ---------------------------------------- Obituary - Perth Courier - (source : Morrow Family Newspaper Clippings at Lanark County Genweb) - Sudden Passing of Leonard Morrow - The village of Snow Road and Surrounding communities were saddened and shocked on Saturday, January 12th, to hear of the sudden passing of Leonard Adam Morrow. Deceased was born November 30, 1919 . He was the sixth of seven sons born to Neil Morrow and his wife, the former Agnes McFarlane of Darling Township. He was employed with the Ontario Hydro and spend the past year in the Kenora district. Leonard had just completed a three week holiday with his parents and was back to work at Minaki, scarcely a week when the fatal accident occurred. The funeral service was held Saturday 19 at his home at Snow Road and was conducted by the Rev. R. J. McNaught. Interment was in Crawford's cemetery. Pallbearers were six cousins, John, Herb and Sherman Morrow, Ivan Cousins, Neil and Henry Larock. Surviving are his parents, six brothers and two sisters, Wilfred of Spragge; Lewis and Harvey of Kingston; Floyd of Deep River; Earl of Snow Road; Howard of Peterboro; Mrs. Wm. Sargeant (Della) of Donaldson; Mrs. Burns McDonnell ( Florence ) of Maberly. ------------------------------------------ Newspaper Clipping : (source - Morrow Family Newspaper Clippings at Lanark County Genweb) - 5 Drown as Truck breaks ice at Minaki - Minaki, Jan. 14 - An Ontario Hydro truck smashed through the ice near this frigid resort town yesterday dumping five men to their deaths in 15 feet of icy water. Three crawled from under the ice to safety and five more ... up to their shoulders in water... were dragged from the vehicle by a fast-thinking Hydro lineman who slashed a tarpaulin, that was trapping them in the water. The temperature was 40 below zero at the time. At homes and in hospital Sunday night, the survivors told of a freezing swim through the inside of the truck to the open rear end of it, 15 feet below the surface of the water. The accident occurred at Gunn lake three miles south of Minaki and about 130 miles east of Winnipeg . "I could hear them moaning and screaming in there," said A. L. Foley of Arinsdale, Man., one of the three who rode in the cab of the vehicle and the man credited with saving the life of the five who escaped through the hole in the tarpaulin. "I pulled out all of them who could get to the hole. But five of them didn't make it. Maybe they never knew what hit them." The dead are: Charles W. Franklin, 21, of Swan River, Man.; Alec Morrisseau, 43, of Pine Falls, Man.; Leon Morrow of Snow Road, Ont.; John Essex of Leichestershire, Eng.; and I. A. Frits whose address was listed as Minaki but who was believed to have moved there only since he came to work on a nearby Hydro electric Project. Foley rode in the cab with Ben Luckavitch of Whitney and Ferdy Tozer of Newcastle, N.B., and Tozer was driving. "I was driving the line crew in for lunch, said Tozer, "We've been running truck over that lake all season. "But you can't just tell with these lakes, The currents do tricky things. You can go over a spot in the morning and have two feet of ice under you. By nightfall the current can take that down to four inches. Something like that happened here. "Then all of a sudden I felt her go on me, I couldn't do a thing about it. The rear end of the truck sank deep in the lake so that the vehicle was standing almost vertically in the water. The three in the cab scurried to safety. "From under the tarp, we could hear one of those guys yelling, "cut the tarp, cut the tarp, "Tozer said, "I had the only pocket knife in the crowd. Foley grabbed it from me and he jumped on the tarp. Only a bit of it was sticking out of the water. "First thing I knew he was reaching down and grabbing one after another as they came out. Then I noticed the hole in the ice behind the truck. One after another guys were coming to the surface. Luckavitch and I went back and started pulling them out" What happened in the rear of the vehicle was told by Frank Masiowski, 31, father of one child, who joined the line crew last Monday. "I was sitting right by the tail-gate. All of a sudden I got a sinking feeling. I looked down. There were the wheels sinking in the ice. First thing I thought to do was jump. But that very moment the whole truck slipped into the lake. "There was a great surge of water. We were all hurled up toward the front. I could feel arms and legs all around me. It was pitch dark. I can remember saying to myself, "Well, that's that, I've had it" I was just going to give up and stay there. Then I membered I had a wife and kid at home, I had to get out of there and that's all there was to it. "I didn't know anything about the hole in the tarp up front, but I did know that the back was open. I was about six feet under the surface of the lake about this time. "I started swimming through the truck grabbing the ribs that held the tarp in place and pulling myself down toward the rear. Finally I got there. Don't ask me how. I dragged myself outside the truck and let go. It seemed like it was still falling. I didn't realize it was resting on the bottom of the lake. I floated to the surface. I was about four feet from the edge of the ice. I saw the fellows from the cab puling one guy so I grabbed that guy's pant leg. That way we were both pulled out. We went back to the campsite where we'd been working. We were soaked through and our clothes were freezing to us. We had to pry them off His fellow workers said Masiowski was ordered by the Hydro with five other men into hospital at the Hydro campsite at Whitedog, Ont., 20 miles away. He refused to go, they said, because he wanted to go home to his wife and child. Divers were sent down Sunday and the bodies were removed from the truck. They were flown to a funeral home in Kenora, 15 miles south. In hospital at Whitedog were Bill Conroy of Sharbot Lake, Ont., Gerry Colden of Belleville, Ont., Chris Knowles of Alma, Man., Walter Borowski of Regina and Norman Wilson whose eastern Ontario address was not known by his friends. Tozer said that if the lake had been more than 15 feet deep, "There'd have been 16 bodies down there." --- WHEN LEONARD MORROW DROWNED - (Written by Wes Bomhower) It was some forty years ago in the north, Ontario. The winter snow lay deep upon the ground And the lakes with ice were slick, More than half a metre thick, The fateful day when Leonard Morrow drowned.- Nearby Snow Road Leonard came, his only claim to fame Was working for the Hydro up and down Through the Province far and near; Lanark County he held dear Until the fateful day when he was drowned.- Refrain; Out on the lake the truck would go Where yesterday the ice was safe and sound. But a current ‘neath the ice Weakened it and in a trice The truck broke through And five good men were drowned- Some survived to tell the tale of a deep and frigid hell, The frightened cries, the chaos all around. And the cold north wind would blow, It was thirty five below The fateful day when Leonard Morrow drowned.- To the camp a mile away they would run that dreadful day Ere frozen clothing caused them to be bound. Now the nightmares and the dreams Bring back memories of the scene, The scene they'd fain forget when Leonard drowned.--- (Author's Note: This is a true story written in memory of Leonard Morrow and other fellow workers who drowned on their way to work one morning in the winter of 1957)

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Latitude: 53.5122280
Longitude: -1.1878590

Family Members:

Parent

Neil Louis Morrow

(1885 - 1968)

Agnes Jane McFarlane Morrow

(1891 - 1965)

Siblings

(1910 - 1962)

(1912 - 1993)

(1913 - 1968)

(1915 - 1994)

Juliah Della J. Morrow Sargeant

(1916 - 2007)

Earl Lawrence Morrow

(1918 - 1976)

Florence Irene Morrow McDonell

(1928 - 2014)

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Coordinate: 53.5122280, -1.1878590

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