31-Dec-54
CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY TAKES TWELVE LIVES
Twelve victims of a kerosene explosion and fire which wrecked a three room tenant house near Parkin, Ark. Christmas Eve were buried Monday afternoon in Crittenden Memorial Park, near Marion.
“We love the Lord because He has heard my voice in supplication,” Father Edward J. McCormick of West Memphis said as three silver gray caskets containing the 12 bodies were lowered into the earth.
A chilling rain fell on about 75 friends and relatives of the MONTANA and SANTANA families who attended the services.
Two survivors of the blast, Mrs. Raul Montana and her daughter, Marie Montana , wept brokenly throughout the brief services.
The caskets held the bodies of five of Mrs. Montana’s six children. Her husband, who poured kerosene into a bedroom heater to touch off the explosion is in St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis, critically burned.
The other victims were members of the family of PETE SANTANA SR. Only living member of that eight member family is 12 year old PETE SANTANA JR., who is also critically burned and in the hospital.
The kerosene ignited fire was the worst accident in the Nation during the Christmas holidays.
Citizens Funeral Home of West Memphis was in charge.
CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY TAKES TWELVE LIVES
Twelve victims of a kerosene explosion and fire which wrecked a three room tenant house near Parkin, Ark. Christmas Eve were buried Monday afternoon in Crittenden Memorial Park, near Marion.
“We love the Lord because He has heard my voice in supplication,” Father Edward J. McCormick of West Memphis said as three silver gray caskets containing the 12 bodies were lowered into the earth.
A chilling rain fell on about 75 friends and relatives of the MONTANA and SANTANA families who attended the services.
Two survivors of the blast, Mrs. Raul Montana and her daughter, Marie Montana , wept brokenly throughout the brief services.
The caskets held the bodies of five of Mrs. Montana’s six children. Her husband, who poured kerosene into a bedroom heater to touch off the explosion is in St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis, critically burned.
The other victims were members of the family of PETE SANTANA SR. Only living member of that eight member family is 12 year old PETE SANTANA JR., who is also critically burned and in the hospital.
The kerosene ignited fire was the worst accident in the Nation during the Christmas holidays.
Citizens Funeral Home of West Memphis was in charge.
31-Dec-54
CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY TAKES TWELVE LIVES
Twelve victims of a kerosene explosion and fire which wrecked a three room tenant house near Parkin, Ark. Christmas Eve were buried Monday afternoon in Crittenden Memorial Park, near Marion.
“We love the Lord because He has heard my voice in supplication,” Father Edward J. McCormick of West Memphis said as three silver gray caskets containing the 12 bodies were lowered into the earth.
A chilling rain fell on about 75 friends and relatives of the MONTANA and SANTANA families who attended the services.
Two survivors of the blast, Mrs. Raul Montana and her daughter, Marie Montana , wept brokenly throughout the brief services.
The caskets held the bodies of five of Mrs. Montana’s six children. Her husband, who poured kerosene into a bedroom heater to touch off the explosion is in St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis, critically burned.
The other victims were members of the family of PETE SANTANA SR. Only living member of that eight member family is 12 year old PETE SANTANA JR., who is also critically burned and in the hospital.
The kerosene ignited fire was the worst accident in the Nation during the Christmas holidays.
Citizens Funeral Home of West Memphis was in charge.
CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY TAKES TWELVE LIVES
Twelve victims of a kerosene explosion and fire which wrecked a three room tenant house near Parkin, Ark. Christmas Eve were buried Monday afternoon in Crittenden Memorial Park, near Marion.
“We love the Lord because He has heard my voice in supplication,” Father Edward J. McCormick of West Memphis said as three silver gray caskets containing the 12 bodies were lowered into the earth.
A chilling rain fell on about 75 friends and relatives of the MONTANA and SANTANA families who attended the services.
Two survivors of the blast, Mrs. Raul Montana and her daughter, Marie Montana , wept brokenly throughout the brief services.
The caskets held the bodies of five of Mrs. Montana’s six children. Her husband, who poured kerosene into a bedroom heater to touch off the explosion is in St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis, critically burned.
The other victims were members of the family of PETE SANTANA SR. Only living member of that eight member family is 12 year old PETE SANTANA JR., who is also critically burned and in the hospital.
The kerosene ignited fire was the worst accident in the Nation during the Christmas holidays.
Citizens Funeral Home of West Memphis was in charge.
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