| Since the exact death date was not given, the date of the newspaper article was used. Published in Pilot-Tribune, May 13, 1948
‘CORKY’ PRALL DIES SUDDENLY
U. S. INSPECTOR ON RIVER PROJECT FALLS DEAD AT MISSOURI VALLEY
Harold J. “Corky” Prall, 51, U. S. government inspector under the Missouri River improvement program, fell dead Friday in a doctor’s office at Missouri Valley.
The Blair man had been taken ill while inspecting work nine miles south of Missouri Valley. A doctor was giving him a checkup when he died of a sudden heart attack.
He had many friends in Blair who were shocked by his passing. Only the day before his death he had gathered a quantity of mushrooms along the river, and a group of friends was to have gathered Friday night in Blair for a mushroom “feed.”
Mr. Prall worked out of the Onawa (Ia.) area office.
The lone survivor is a sister, Mrs. Mildred Cook, of Dodge City, Kan.
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