Obit of Frederick Doescher, wife & sister
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Obit of Frederick Doescher, wife & sister
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Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:25AM GMT |
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Surnames: Doescher, Frink
Found in “The San Francisco Call”, San Francisco, Calif.,
dated March 11, 1902:
Three Old People Asphyxiated
MOUNT CLEMMONS, Mich., March
10 – Frederick Doescher, aged 86 years,
his wife, aged 72, and his sister, Mrs.
John Frink, aged 60, were asphixated at
their residence sometime between Friday
night and this morning by coal gas. The
women were found dead in their bed,
while Doescher’s body was in a chair be-
hind the stove. He had evidently been
awakened by the gas and been overcome
after he had got up to fix the stove.
dated March 11, 1902:
Three Old People Asphyxiated
MOUNT CLEMMONS, Mich., March
10 – Frederick Doescher, aged 86 years,
his wife, aged 72, and his sister, Mrs.
John Frink, aged 60, were asphixated at
their residence sometime between Friday
night and this morning by coal gas. The
women were found dead in their bed,
while Doescher’s body was in a chair be-
hind the stove. He had evidently been
awakened by the gas and been overcome
after he had got up to fix the stove.