Mrs. Margaret Carr
Burns Kill City Woman
Funeral arrangements are pending today for Mrs. Margaret Annabelle Carr, 44, of 404 ½ West Walnut, succumbed Sunday to burns suffered in a fire Nov. 4.
Mrs. Carr died at 9:10 a.m. Sunday in Burge-Protestant Hospital.
The woman had suffered second and third-degree burns over most of her body when her bed caught on fire in her apartment. A tenant in an adjacent apartment, a passerby and two police officers tried to rescue Mrs. Carr but were prevented from doing so by dense smoke and heat. Firemen with smoke masks finally managed to reach the woman.
Officers and firemen said cigarette dropped on a bed may have started the fatal fire. Neighbors told officers a similar blaze broke out in the apartment previously, but they managed to extinguish it quickly.
A lifelong' resident of Springfield, Mrs. Carr was a member of an Assembly of God Church. She is survived by one brother Lonnie, 658 South Clay, and her step-father, J. W. Shelton, of the Connelly Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ayre-Goodwin Chapel. The Rev. William Riley will officiate, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery The casket will be closed during the service.
Springfield Leader and Press, 11 Nov 1968, Mon, Page 26
Burns Kill City Woman
Funeral arrangements are pending today for Mrs. Margaret Annabelle Carr, 44, of 404 ½ West Walnut, succumbed Sunday to burns suffered in a fire Nov. 4.
Mrs. Carr died at 9:10 a.m. Sunday in Burge-Protestant Hospital.
The woman had suffered second and third-degree burns over most of her body when her bed caught on fire in her apartment. A tenant in an adjacent apartment, a passerby and two police officers tried to rescue Mrs. Carr but were prevented from doing so by dense smoke and heat. Firemen with smoke masks finally managed to reach the woman.
Officers and firemen said cigarette dropped on a bed may have started the fatal fire. Neighbors told officers a similar blaze broke out in the apartment previously, but they managed to extinguish it quickly.
A lifelong' resident of Springfield, Mrs. Carr was a member of an Assembly of God Church. She is survived by one brother Lonnie, 658 South Clay, and her step-father, J. W. Shelton, of the Connelly Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ayre-Goodwin Chapel. The Rev. William Riley will officiate, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery The casket will be closed during the service.
Springfield Leader and Press, 11 Nov 1968, Mon, Page 26
Mrs. Margaret Carr
Burns Kill City Woman
Funeral arrangements are pending today for Mrs. Margaret Annabelle Carr, 44, of 404 ½ West Walnut, succumbed Sunday to burns suffered in a fire Nov. 4.
Mrs. Carr died at 9:10 a.m. Sunday in Burge-Protestant Hospital.
The woman had suffered second and third-degree burns over most of her body when her bed caught on fire in her apartment. A tenant in an adjacent apartment, a passerby and two police officers tried to rescue Mrs. Carr but were prevented from doing so by dense smoke and heat. Firemen with smoke masks finally managed to reach the woman.
Officers and firemen said cigarette dropped on a bed may have started the fatal fire. Neighbors told officers a similar blaze broke out in the apartment previously, but they managed to extinguish it quickly.
A lifelong' resident of Springfield, Mrs. Carr was a member of an Assembly of God Church. She is survived by one brother Lonnie, 658 South Clay, and her step-father, J. W. Shelton, of the Connelly Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ayre-Goodwin Chapel. The Rev. William Riley will officiate, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery The casket will be closed during the service.
Springfield Leader and Press, 11 Nov 1968, Mon, Page 26
Burns Kill City Woman
Funeral arrangements are pending today for Mrs. Margaret Annabelle Carr, 44, of 404 ½ West Walnut, succumbed Sunday to burns suffered in a fire Nov. 4.
Mrs. Carr died at 9:10 a.m. Sunday in Burge-Protestant Hospital.
The woman had suffered second and third-degree burns over most of her body when her bed caught on fire in her apartment. A tenant in an adjacent apartment, a passerby and two police officers tried to rescue Mrs. Carr but were prevented from doing so by dense smoke and heat. Firemen with smoke masks finally managed to reach the woman.
Officers and firemen said cigarette dropped on a bed may have started the fatal fire. Neighbors told officers a similar blaze broke out in the apartment previously, but they managed to extinguish it quickly.
A lifelong' resident of Springfield, Mrs. Carr was a member of an Assembly of God Church. She is survived by one brother Lonnie, 658 South Clay, and her step-father, J. W. Shelton, of the Connelly Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ayre-Goodwin Chapel. The Rev. William Riley will officiate, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery The casket will be closed during the service.
Springfield Leader and Press, 11 Nov 1968, Mon, Page 26
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