Cemetery records:
#319
date: 7/14/1930
name: McQuiston, Thelma L.
age: 7
Block 4, Lot 3
cause of death: Drowning
Topeka State Journal, Monday, July 14, 1930, page 10:
Child Drowned In Creek
Thelma McQuiston Was Wading in Wakarusa Near Berryton
Thelma McQuiston, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McQuiston, of Berryton, was drowned Sunday afternoon in Wakarusa creek, five miles southeast of Berryton.
The McQuiston family was having a picnic on the creek where the child was drowned. Thelma and her sister, Alice, 15, were wading. Thelma suddenly sank. Her body was recovered about twenty minutes later and a first aid call sent to fire headquarters. Dean Way and Floyd Torgeson, firemen, gave the child first aid treatment more than an hour.
Besides her parents and sister, Alice, Thelma is survived by another sister, Alice;(sic) four brothers, John, Dave, Harold and William, Jr., and her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Dreisbach, all of Berryton.
Funeral services will be held at the Wall-Diffenderfer chapel at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
#319
date: 7/14/1930
name: McQuiston, Thelma L.
age: 7
Block 4, Lot 3
cause of death: Drowning
Topeka State Journal, Monday, July 14, 1930, page 10:
Child Drowned In Creek
Thelma McQuiston Was Wading in Wakarusa Near Berryton
Thelma McQuiston, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McQuiston, of Berryton, was drowned Sunday afternoon in Wakarusa creek, five miles southeast of Berryton.
The McQuiston family was having a picnic on the creek where the child was drowned. Thelma and her sister, Alice, 15, were wading. Thelma suddenly sank. Her body was recovered about twenty minutes later and a first aid call sent to fire headquarters. Dean Way and Floyd Torgeson, firemen, gave the child first aid treatment more than an hour.
Besides her parents and sister, Alice, Thelma is survived by another sister, Alice;(sic) four brothers, John, Dave, Harold and William, Jr., and her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Dreisbach, all of Berryton.
Funeral services will be held at the Wall-Diffenderfer chapel at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Cemetery records:
#319
date: 7/14/1930
name: McQuiston, Thelma L.
age: 7
Block 4, Lot 3
cause of death: Drowning
Topeka State Journal, Monday, July 14, 1930, page 10:
Child Drowned In Creek
Thelma McQuiston Was Wading in Wakarusa Near Berryton
Thelma McQuiston, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McQuiston, of Berryton, was drowned Sunday afternoon in Wakarusa creek, five miles southeast of Berryton.
The McQuiston family was having a picnic on the creek where the child was drowned. Thelma and her sister, Alice, 15, were wading. Thelma suddenly sank. Her body was recovered about twenty minutes later and a first aid call sent to fire headquarters. Dean Way and Floyd Torgeson, firemen, gave the child first aid treatment more than an hour.
Besides her parents and sister, Alice, Thelma is survived by another sister, Alice;(sic) four brothers, John, Dave, Harold and William, Jr., and her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Dreisbach, all of Berryton.
Funeral services will be held at the Wall-Diffenderfer chapel at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
#319
date: 7/14/1930
name: McQuiston, Thelma L.
age: 7
Block 4, Lot 3
cause of death: Drowning
Topeka State Journal, Monday, July 14, 1930, page 10:
Child Drowned In Creek
Thelma McQuiston Was Wading in Wakarusa Near Berryton
Thelma McQuiston, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McQuiston, of Berryton, was drowned Sunday afternoon in Wakarusa creek, five miles southeast of Berryton.
The McQuiston family was having a picnic on the creek where the child was drowned. Thelma and her sister, Alice, 15, were wading. Thelma suddenly sank. Her body was recovered about twenty minutes later and a first aid call sent to fire headquarters. Dean Way and Floyd Torgeson, firemen, gave the child first aid treatment more than an hour.
Besides her parents and sister, Alice, Thelma is survived by another sister, Alice;(sic) four brothers, John, Dave, Harold and William, Jr., and her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Dreisbach, all of Berryton.
Funeral services will be held at the Wall-Diffenderfer chapel at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
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