The human engine can’t run forever. These short obituaries were submitted by readers paying their last respects to loved ones who loved old steam engines.
EARNEST LA VERNE (SONNY) CROUT, born March 10, 1933, in Montour
Falls, New York, passed away May 19, 2001 in Elmira, New York, at
the age of 68.
Verne displayed his traction engines and steam rollers at shows
friends at other shows.
Submitted by Mark A. Corson.
WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ WHITE, passed away April 4, 2001,
after a ten-year battle with cancer. He was a retired truck driver
and farmer.
He made several trips to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with good
friend Perry Charlton. After Perry’s death around 1982, my
father never felt like going without him. They both loved steam and
old gas. My father had gotten IMA since the Fifties.
His father started with steam as a young man in the 1800s; he
had a sawmill, did custom threshing and silo, and road grading for
the county.
Bill is survived by his wife of 61 years, Mary Vaughan White;
daughter Martha McNeil and husband, Bob; son William Robert White
and his wife, Linda; sister Edna Matthews; six grandchildren and 11
great-grandchildren. He donated his body to the medical school at
Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Submitted by his son, William R. White, Rt. 2, Box 295A,
Ronceverte, West Virginia 24970.
ARTHUR L. HEILAND, from Anne, Ohio, passed away June 23, 2001 in
Fair Haven Nursing Home, Sidney, Ohio. He was 94 years old.
He always got Iron Men Album and was always making steam
engines, etc. A lot of people all over the United States knew him,
and he did things for so many people.
Submitted by his daughter, Dolores Applegate, 2514 N. Main
St., Sidney, Ohio 45365. FC
