The Hood River Glacier, February 19, 1920, page 1
Mrs. W. H. Chapman Fatally Burned
Mrs. W. H. Chapman, wife of a grocer on the Heights, was fatally burned Tuesday morning, dying about 2 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman had living apartments over the store, and in the morning while Mr. Chapman was down stairs, she was fixing the fire, clad in night clothes preparing to bathe, her clothing catching fire. She called to her husband, but he was outside at the time and noise from an automobile prevented him hearing until he went back into the store. When he reached the head of the stairs, where she had fallen, her clothing was all burned off with the exception of the stockings, and she was barely able to whisper a few words.
Mrs. Chapman was 70 years old and leaves besides her husband the following eight children: W. J. Chapman, R. E. Chapman, Mrs. Geo. Howard, Mrs. W. R. Sherwood, Mrs. Eva Mowers and Alvin Chapman, of Hood River; Mrs. Jonas Woods, Iowa and Mrs. Ruth Ray, of Toppenish, Wash.
Funeral services will be held at Anderson chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. N. H. Cook, of Vancouver, officiating. Interment will be in Idlewilde cemetery.
Mrs. W. H. Chapman Fatally Burned
Mrs. W. H. Chapman, wife of a grocer on the Heights, was fatally burned Tuesday morning, dying about 2 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman had living apartments over the store, and in the morning while Mr. Chapman was down stairs, she was fixing the fire, clad in night clothes preparing to bathe, her clothing catching fire. She called to her husband, but he was outside at the time and noise from an automobile prevented him hearing until he went back into the store. When he reached the head of the stairs, where she had fallen, her clothing was all burned off with the exception of the stockings, and she was barely able to whisper a few words.
Mrs. Chapman was 70 years old and leaves besides her husband the following eight children: W. J. Chapman, R. E. Chapman, Mrs. Geo. Howard, Mrs. W. R. Sherwood, Mrs. Eva Mowers and Alvin Chapman, of Hood River; Mrs. Jonas Woods, Iowa and Mrs. Ruth Ray, of Toppenish, Wash.
Funeral services will be held at Anderson chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. N. H. Cook, of Vancouver, officiating. Interment will be in Idlewilde cemetery.
The Hood River Glacier, February 19, 1920, page 1
Mrs. W. H. Chapman Fatally Burned
Mrs. W. H. Chapman, wife of a grocer on the Heights, was fatally burned Tuesday morning, dying about 2 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman had living apartments over the store, and in the morning while Mr. Chapman was down stairs, she was fixing the fire, clad in night clothes preparing to bathe, her clothing catching fire. She called to her husband, but he was outside at the time and noise from an automobile prevented him hearing until he went back into the store. When he reached the head of the stairs, where she had fallen, her clothing was all burned off with the exception of the stockings, and she was barely able to whisper a few words.
Mrs. Chapman was 70 years old and leaves besides her husband the following eight children: W. J. Chapman, R. E. Chapman, Mrs. Geo. Howard, Mrs. W. R. Sherwood, Mrs. Eva Mowers and Alvin Chapman, of Hood River; Mrs. Jonas Woods, Iowa and Mrs. Ruth Ray, of Toppenish, Wash.
Funeral services will be held at Anderson chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. N. H. Cook, of Vancouver, officiating. Interment will be in Idlewilde cemetery.
Mrs. W. H. Chapman Fatally Burned
Mrs. W. H. Chapman, wife of a grocer on the Heights, was fatally burned Tuesday morning, dying about 2 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman had living apartments over the store, and in the morning while Mr. Chapman was down stairs, she was fixing the fire, clad in night clothes preparing to bathe, her clothing catching fire. She called to her husband, but he was outside at the time and noise from an automobile prevented him hearing until he went back into the store. When he reached the head of the stairs, where she had fallen, her clothing was all burned off with the exception of the stockings, and she was barely able to whisper a few words.
Mrs. Chapman was 70 years old and leaves besides her husband the following eight children: W. J. Chapman, R. E. Chapman, Mrs. Geo. Howard, Mrs. W. R. Sherwood, Mrs. Eva Mowers and Alvin Chapman, of Hood River; Mrs. Jonas Woods, Iowa and Mrs. Ruth Ray, of Toppenish, Wash.
Funeral services will be held at Anderson chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. N. H. Cook, of Vancouver, officiating. Interment will be in Idlewilde cemetery.
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