News Item on death:
FIRE VICTIN DIES MONDAY AT ARGYLE
MOTHER'S DEATH FOLLOWS FIVE DAYS AFTER THAT OF LITTLE SON.
Funeral Services of Mrs. Lee Doerr Held at Argyle R.C. Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs. Lee Doerr, who was so badly injured in rescuing her child when their home burned Jul 4, died at Argyle Monday morning, July 10 [1916]. She suffered terribly during the six days following the fire. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church at Argyle Wednesday morning and were largely attended.
About noon July 4, the Doerr home caught fire upstairs. Mrs. Doerr was on the first floor busily engaged in household duties at the time, and when she opened the upstairs door with the intention of getting her little one and one-half year old babe who had been sleeping upstairs, she found the room a sheet of flame. It seemed impossible to make further progress until the mother heard the little one cry "Mama," when she rush to the second floor, grabbed the child and in the hurry, both fell down the stairs. Every stitch of clothing was burned from the woman's body and the only place she was not scorched by the flames was where she held her little son to her breast for protection. The baby died the following day.
Mrs. Doerr, whose maiden name was Della Morrell, was 19 years of age. The entire community sympathizes with the husband and father in his double affliction.
(Cass City Chronicle, July 14, 1915, p. 1.)
FIRE VICTIN DIES MONDAY AT ARGYLE
MOTHER'S DEATH FOLLOWS FIVE DAYS AFTER THAT OF LITTLE SON.
Funeral Services of Mrs. Lee Doerr Held at Argyle R.C. Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs. Lee Doerr, who was so badly injured in rescuing her child when their home burned Jul 4, died at Argyle Monday morning, July 10 [1916]. She suffered terribly during the six days following the fire. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church at Argyle Wednesday morning and were largely attended.
About noon July 4, the Doerr home caught fire upstairs. Mrs. Doerr was on the first floor busily engaged in household duties at the time, and when she opened the upstairs door with the intention of getting her little one and one-half year old babe who had been sleeping upstairs, she found the room a sheet of flame. It seemed impossible to make further progress until the mother heard the little one cry "Mama," when she rush to the second floor, grabbed the child and in the hurry, both fell down the stairs. Every stitch of clothing was burned from the woman's body and the only place she was not scorched by the flames was where she held her little son to her breast for protection. The baby died the following day.
Mrs. Doerr, whose maiden name was Della Morrell, was 19 years of age. The entire community sympathizes with the husband and father in his double affliction.
(Cass City Chronicle, July 14, 1915, p. 1.)
News Item on death:
FIRE VICTIN DIES MONDAY AT ARGYLE
MOTHER'S DEATH FOLLOWS FIVE DAYS AFTER THAT OF LITTLE SON.
Funeral Services of Mrs. Lee Doerr Held at Argyle R.C. Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs. Lee Doerr, who was so badly injured in rescuing her child when their home burned Jul 4, died at Argyle Monday morning, July 10 [1916]. She suffered terribly during the six days following the fire. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church at Argyle Wednesday morning and were largely attended.
About noon July 4, the Doerr home caught fire upstairs. Mrs. Doerr was on the first floor busily engaged in household duties at the time, and when she opened the upstairs door with the intention of getting her little one and one-half year old babe who had been sleeping upstairs, she found the room a sheet of flame. It seemed impossible to make further progress until the mother heard the little one cry "Mama," when she rush to the second floor, grabbed the child and in the hurry, both fell down the stairs. Every stitch of clothing was burned from the woman's body and the only place she was not scorched by the flames was where she held her little son to her breast for protection. The baby died the following day.
Mrs. Doerr, whose maiden name was Della Morrell, was 19 years of age. The entire community sympathizes with the husband and father in his double affliction.
(Cass City Chronicle, July 14, 1915, p. 1.)
FIRE VICTIN DIES MONDAY AT ARGYLE
MOTHER'S DEATH FOLLOWS FIVE DAYS AFTER THAT OF LITTLE SON.
Funeral Services of Mrs. Lee Doerr Held at Argyle R.C. Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs. Lee Doerr, who was so badly injured in rescuing her child when their home burned Jul 4, died at Argyle Monday morning, July 10 [1916]. She suffered terribly during the six days following the fire. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church at Argyle Wednesday morning and were largely attended.
About noon July 4, the Doerr home caught fire upstairs. Mrs. Doerr was on the first floor busily engaged in household duties at the time, and when she opened the upstairs door with the intention of getting her little one and one-half year old babe who had been sleeping upstairs, she found the room a sheet of flame. It seemed impossible to make further progress until the mother heard the little one cry "Mama," when she rush to the second floor, grabbed the child and in the hurry, both fell down the stairs. Every stitch of clothing was burned from the woman's body and the only place she was not scorched by the flames was where she held her little son to her breast for protection. The baby died the following day.
Mrs. Doerr, whose maiden name was Della Morrell, was 19 years of age. The entire community sympathizes with the husband and father in his double affliction.
(Cass City Chronicle, July 14, 1915, p. 1.)
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