The Houston Post of Sunday contains the death notice of Mrs. Lena Pearl Dorsey, 35, and her two children, Calvin 9 and Kathryn 5, death due to asphyxiation. The Dorsey family formerly lived at Flatonia before removing to Houston, where the husband, J. H. Dorsey, is now employed as linesman for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The Post has the following reference:
The victims were found dead in their home at 112 East Twenty-fourth Friday night when the husband and father, J. H. Dorsey, returned from work.
Miraculously surviving, 1-year old Mary Edna Dorsey was found clasped in the arms of her dead mother.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorsey and her two children were held at 1:30 p.m., Sunday in the Heights funeral home chapel, with Rev. T. C. Jester in charge. Burial was in Brookside cemetery.
Mrs. Dorsey is survived by her husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bertling, and two sisters, Mrs. Frances Johnson and Mrs. Eula Brown, all of Flatonia; three brothers, Lawrence and George Bertling of Flatonia and Roger Bertling of Cameron.
The victims were found dead in their home at 112 East Twenty-fourth Friday night when the husband and father, J. H. Dorsey, returned from work.
Miraculously surviving, 1-year old Mary Edna Dorsey was found clasped in the arms of her dead mother.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorsey and her two children were held at 1:30 p.m., Sunday in the Heights funeral home chapel, with Rev. T. C. Jester in charge. Burial was in Brookside cemetery.
Mrs. Dorsey is survived by her husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bertling, and two sisters, Mrs. Frances Johnson and Mrs. Eula Brown, all of Flatonia; three brothers, Lawrence and George Bertling of Flatonia and Roger Bertling of Cameron.
The Houston Post of Sunday contains the death notice of Mrs. Lena Pearl Dorsey, 35, and her two children, Calvin 9 and Kathryn 5, death due to asphyxiation. The Dorsey family formerly lived at Flatonia before removing to Houston, where the husband, J. H. Dorsey, is now employed as linesman for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The Post has the following reference:
The victims were found dead in their home at 112 East Twenty-fourth Friday night when the husband and father, J. H. Dorsey, returned from work.
Miraculously surviving, 1-year old Mary Edna Dorsey was found clasped in the arms of her dead mother.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorsey and her two children were held at 1:30 p.m., Sunday in the Heights funeral home chapel, with Rev. T. C. Jester in charge. Burial was in Brookside cemetery.
Mrs. Dorsey is survived by her husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bertling, and two sisters, Mrs. Frances Johnson and Mrs. Eula Brown, all of Flatonia; three brothers, Lawrence and George Bertling of Flatonia and Roger Bertling of Cameron.
The victims were found dead in their home at 112 East Twenty-fourth Friday night when the husband and father, J. H. Dorsey, returned from work.
Miraculously surviving, 1-year old Mary Edna Dorsey was found clasped in the arms of her dead mother.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorsey and her two children were held at 1:30 p.m., Sunday in the Heights funeral home chapel, with Rev. T. C. Jester in charge. Burial was in Brookside cemetery.
Mrs. Dorsey is survived by her husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bertling, and two sisters, Mrs. Frances Johnson and Mrs. Eula Brown, all of Flatonia; three brothers, Lawrence and George Bertling of Flatonia and Roger Bertling of Cameron.
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