The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., November 23, 1983, page 2

CARL ENGEL

     Carl Engel, 71, a familiar figure driving his steam traction engine for years in Hood River parades, died at the Hood River Memorial Hospital Saturday, Nov. 19, apparently of a heart attack.
     Recitation of rosary was at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, at the Anderson Funeral Home, and mass of Christian burial was scheduled at St. Mary's Catholic Church at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, with Father Richard Conway officiating. Private committal will be in White Salmon Cemetery.
     Carl Engel was born Aug. 13, 1912 in Hebron, Neb., to Henry and Agnes Engel, and he grew up in Nebraska, working on the family farm.
     In 1934 he moved to Hood River to work for Howell Brothers Machine Shop, which he and Roy DeHart later purchased. He and his wife Fonda were married Dec. 16, 1953, in Hood River.
     The two partners in Engel and DeHart Machine Shop built a new plant on Tucker Road, moving from their old headquarters on Fourth Street near the Diamond Fruit cannery complex. They sold the business that is now Custom Aluminum to Larry Dinsmoor.
     Mr. Engel was a collector of antique farm machinery, and he retained a "partnership" with DeHart long after his retirement -- this one in operating their popular steam traction engine in parades not only here but in other communities. They restored a wood-fired engine and outfitted it to run on asphalt streets.
     A sergeant in the Air Force during World War II, he was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1479 and the Elks Lodge.
     Survivors are his wife, Fonda, 3494 Avalon Drive; and three brothers, Henry and of Milwaukee, Melvin of Soap Lake, Wash., and John of Dayton, Ohio.
     Contributions in his memory can be made to the St. Mary's Church building fund.

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