(Info. from Dickinson County Marriage Records.)
FIRE VICTIM DIES OF SHOCK AND BURNS
August Magnuson, 78, died at 5:30 yesterday morning in the Penn Hospital, where he was taken Wednesday morning after he had suffered burns on his face and hands. Death was caused by a heart ailment aggravated by shock and burns received in a fire at is residence.
He lived with his son, Arvid, on a farm in Swedetown, in the first ward, was burned when he attempted to extinguish a fire which started in wood piked near the kitchen stove.
He warned his son, who escaped through his bedroom window, and then returned to drag his father from the livingroom, where the latter fell unconsciousness near an outside door.
Mr. Magnuson had been a resident of Norway for 57 years. He leaves 3 daughters: Mrs. Harry Pultz, Mrs. Floyd Coombs, Lillian; 4 sons: Arvid, Arthur, Ivar and Herbert; 13 grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Fred Strand.
(February 21, 1944, The Iron Mountain Daily newspaper, Dickinson, Michigan.)
(Courtesy of KLH.)
County: Dickinson
City/village/township: Norway
Last Name: Magnuson
Given Name: August
Birth Year: 1865
Age: 78
Death Day: 20
Death Month: Feb
Death Year: 1944
Rights Certified copies of this record are available from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Vital Records Office: http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-4645---,00.html.
Item ID: 005363688_03195
SIBLINGS
Anna Magnuson Satterlund
August Magnuson
Mrs. Fred Strand
(Info. from Dickinson County Marriage Records.)
FIRE VICTIM DIES OF SHOCK AND BURNS
August Magnuson, 78, died at 5:30 yesterday morning in the Penn Hospital, where he was taken Wednesday morning after he had suffered burns on his face and hands. Death was caused by a heart ailment aggravated by shock and burns received in a fire at is residence.
He lived with his son, Arvid, on a farm in Swedetown, in the first ward, was burned when he attempted to extinguish a fire which started in wood piked near the kitchen stove.
He warned his son, who escaped through his bedroom window, and then returned to drag his father from the livingroom, where the latter fell unconsciousness near an outside door.
Mr. Magnuson had been a resident of Norway for 57 years. He leaves 3 daughters: Mrs. Harry Pultz, Mrs. Floyd Coombs, Lillian; 4 sons: Arvid, Arthur, Ivar and Herbert; 13 grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Fred Strand.
(February 21, 1944, The Iron Mountain Daily newspaper, Dickinson, Michigan.)
(Courtesy of KLH.)
County: Dickinson
City/village/township: Norway
Last Name: Magnuson
Given Name: August
Birth Year: 1865
Age: 78
Death Day: 20
Death Month: Feb
Death Year: 1944
Rights Certified copies of this record are available from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Vital Records Office: http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-4645---,00.html.
Item ID: 005363688_03195
SIBLINGS
Anna Magnuson Satterlund
August Magnuson
Mrs. Fred Strand
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