Note: Cemetery records indicate born: 1878.
Two coffins, one containing the body of a 55 year old Troy Hill father, the other, the ashes of his 13 year old son, for whom he gave his life in a futile rescue attempt, when their home was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning, were buried in a double grave in the cemetery this afternoon. It was the final echo of a tragedy that robbed a family of seven of their father and husband and a son. The mother, Mrs. Frank Kline, is still in the Kittanning Hospital in serious condition and was unable to attend the funeral. The father, Frank Kline, died seven hours after the fire from severe burns while the son, trapped inside the front door leading to safety, perished in a roaring inferno of flames originating from an over heated stove on a porch of their home. The others owe their life to the mother who awakened them and carried the two youngest children safely through smoke and flames. Kline was born in Kittanning on January 27, 1877, a son of the late Samuel and Sarah Kline. Bernard, the son, was born July 28, 1918. The wife and mother, Lucy, Elmer Merle, a stepbrother, Hazel, May and Harold, who were rescued, and William, of St. Louis MO, and a sister, Mrs. W.S. Fox, New Kensington, survive. The funeral services were in the charge of Rev. Robert, a Baptist minister and the Rev. C.O. Bailey, from the Rhodes Funeral Home, South Jefferson Street.
Front Page, Simpson's Daily Leader Times, Friday, October 2, 1931.
Two coffins, one containing the body of a 55 year old Troy Hill father, the other, the ashes of his 13 year old son, for whom he gave his life in a futile rescue attempt, when their home was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning, were buried in a double grave in the cemetery this afternoon. It was the final echo of a tragedy that robbed a family of seven of their father and husband and a son. The mother, Mrs. Frank Kline, is still in the Kittanning Hospital in serious condition and was unable to attend the funeral. The father, Frank Kline, died seven hours after the fire from severe burns while the son, trapped inside the front door leading to safety, perished in a roaring inferno of flames originating from an over heated stove on a porch of their home. The others owe their life to the mother who awakened them and carried the two youngest children safely through smoke and flames. Kline was born in Kittanning on January 27, 1877, a son of the late Samuel and Sarah Kline. Bernard, the son, was born July 28, 1918. The wife and mother, Lucy, Elmer Merle, a stepbrother, Hazel, May and Harold, who were rescued, and William, of St. Louis MO, and a sister, Mrs. W.S. Fox, New Kensington, survive. The funeral services were in the charge of Rev. Robert, a Baptist minister and the Rev. C.O. Bailey, from the Rhodes Funeral Home, South Jefferson Street.
Front Page, Simpson's Daily Leader Times, Friday, October 2, 1931.
Note: Cemetery records indicate born: 1878.
Two coffins, one containing the body of a 55 year old Troy Hill father, the other, the ashes of his 13 year old son, for whom he gave his life in a futile rescue attempt, when their home was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning, were buried in a double grave in the cemetery this afternoon. It was the final echo of a tragedy that robbed a family of seven of their father and husband and a son. The mother, Mrs. Frank Kline, is still in the Kittanning Hospital in serious condition and was unable to attend the funeral. The father, Frank Kline, died seven hours after the fire from severe burns while the son, trapped inside the front door leading to safety, perished in a roaring inferno of flames originating from an over heated stove on a porch of their home. The others owe their life to the mother who awakened them and carried the two youngest children safely through smoke and flames. Kline was born in Kittanning on January 27, 1877, a son of the late Samuel and Sarah Kline. Bernard, the son, was born July 28, 1918. The wife and mother, Lucy, Elmer Merle, a stepbrother, Hazel, May and Harold, who were rescued, and William, of St. Louis MO, and a sister, Mrs. W.S. Fox, New Kensington, survive. The funeral services were in the charge of Rev. Robert, a Baptist minister and the Rev. C.O. Bailey, from the Rhodes Funeral Home, South Jefferson Street.
Front Page, Simpson's Daily Leader Times, Friday, October 2, 1931.
Two coffins, one containing the body of a 55 year old Troy Hill father, the other, the ashes of his 13 year old son, for whom he gave his life in a futile rescue attempt, when their home was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning, were buried in a double grave in the cemetery this afternoon. It was the final echo of a tragedy that robbed a family of seven of their father and husband and a son. The mother, Mrs. Frank Kline, is still in the Kittanning Hospital in serious condition and was unable to attend the funeral. The father, Frank Kline, died seven hours after the fire from severe burns while the son, trapped inside the front door leading to safety, perished in a roaring inferno of flames originating from an over heated stove on a porch of their home. The others owe their life to the mother who awakened them and carried the two youngest children safely through smoke and flames. Kline was born in Kittanning on January 27, 1877, a son of the late Samuel and Sarah Kline. Bernard, the son, was born July 28, 1918. The wife and mother, Lucy, Elmer Merle, a stepbrother, Hazel, May and Harold, who were rescued, and William, of St. Louis MO, and a sister, Mrs. W.S. Fox, New Kensington, survive. The funeral services were in the charge of Rev. Robert, a Baptist minister and the Rev. C.O. Bailey, from the Rhodes Funeral Home, South Jefferson Street.
Front Page, Simpson's Daily Leader Times, Friday, October 2, 1931.
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