Mr. Parkhouse died September 9, 1971, at Rochester, Minnesota, where he was undergoing a medical check-up.

A Son of Thomas Dench and Pearl O. (Parish) Parkhouse, he was born April 3, 1899, in Manning, Iowa. In his early years he was associated with his father in the T.D. Parkhouse Company, a Manning automobile business. Most of his business career was spent as an eastern Iowa representative of the Standard Oil Company, residing at Maquoketa. He retired from Standard Oil in 1956 and was active in other business interests.

Mr. Parkhouse, a World War I Veteran, was a member and past commander of the Timber City post of the American Legion. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Maquoketa.

He was married February 23, 1927, to Frances Langel of Manning, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langel, were longtime residents of Carroll County.

Ralph Parkhouse
Ralph Parkhouse, 72, of Maquoketa, Iowa, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parkhouse, Jr. of Traer, and a brother of Mrs. Webster Latting, of Traer, died unexpectedly Thursday, September 9, in Rochester, Minnesota, where he had been a patient for five days for a medical examination at the Mayo Clinic. He had been at home at Maquoketa over the week end and Labor Day, then returned to Rochester for more medical checks when he was stricken suddenly and died in the emergency ward of a hospital. His married daughter, Mrs. William Crewse, of Tucson, Arizona, had accompanied him to Rochester, and was with him when he passed away.

His body was brought to the Overton Funeral Home at Traer, where a Rosary service was hold at 9 o'clock Saturday morning at Overton's and a requiem mass was held at 10 o'clock in St Paul Catholic Church here, conducted by the Rev. Fr. John Roskopf, pastor. Interment was in St. Paul's Catholic Cemetery.

Mr. Parkhouse was born April 3, 1899. Although his deceased parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parkhouse, Jr., were former Traerites, their son, Ralph, never lived here.

At Maquoketa Mr. Parkhouse was employed many years by the Standard Oil company in a job which required much traveling. His wife was the former Frances Langel who lived at Templeton, Iowa, before marriage. The daughter, Mrs. William Crewse, of Tucson, Arizona, is their only child.

Surviving with his widow and daughter are three grandchildren. Mr. Parkhouse also leaves a sister Mrs. Webster (Dorothy) Latting, of Traer, and four brothers Harold, Lloyd, Raymond, and Lester Parkhouse, all of Waterloo.

Mr. Parkhouse's parents lived at Manning, Iowa, 35 years where his father operated a harness shop, and later he was engaged in the same business at Redfield, Iowa. They moved back to Traer in 1930. His father died here the following year at the age of 58 in an accident when he was struck by an automobile in south Traer. His widow, Mrs. Pearl Parkhouse, who continued her home in Traer, died of pneumonia and complications in a Waterloo hospital in August 1967, at the age of 87 and is buried in West Union Cemetery here.
Traer Star Clipper, September 17, 1971