Canby Blaze Kills Woman
Canby (Special) -- Sarah Belle Berkey, 84, died Wednesday morning in a fire which destroyed her home on Gribble Creek road, three-and-a-half miles southeast of here.
Flames and heat thwarted efforts by a neighbor, Leonard Wolfer, to rescue the woman from the house, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies Chuck Battaglia and L. Ryan reported.
Wolfer saw flames coming from the one-story house as he drove to work. He saw the victim lying on the floor in the kitchen but was unable to remove her from the flaming building.
The fire started in a bedroom in the southwest corner of the house, apparently from an overturned coal oil or kerosene lamp, Battaglia reported.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 23, 1963, page 12
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BERKEY--May 22, Mrs. Sarah B., late of rt 2, Canby; mother of Delta Mirth, Oregon City; Rosie Pickett, Canby; Ada Rathkey and Jack Pratt in Calif.; 4 stepsons. Funeral services Monday, May 27, at 10:30 am, at the Canby Chapel of EVERHART & KENT. Interment Multnomah cemetery.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 27, 1963, page 40
Canby (Special) -- Sarah Belle Berkey, 84, died Wednesday morning in a fire which destroyed her home on Gribble Creek road, three-and-a-half miles southeast of here.
Flames and heat thwarted efforts by a neighbor, Leonard Wolfer, to rescue the woman from the house, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies Chuck Battaglia and L. Ryan reported.
Wolfer saw flames coming from the one-story house as he drove to work. He saw the victim lying on the floor in the kitchen but was unable to remove her from the flaming building.
The fire started in a bedroom in the southwest corner of the house, apparently from an overturned coal oil or kerosene lamp, Battaglia reported.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 23, 1963, page 12
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BERKEY--May 22, Mrs. Sarah B., late of rt 2, Canby; mother of Delta Mirth, Oregon City; Rosie Pickett, Canby; Ada Rathkey and Jack Pratt in Calif.; 4 stepsons. Funeral services Monday, May 27, at 10:30 am, at the Canby Chapel of EVERHART & KENT. Interment Multnomah cemetery.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 27, 1963, page 40
Canby Blaze Kills Woman
Canby (Special) -- Sarah Belle Berkey, 84, died Wednesday morning in a fire which destroyed her home on Gribble Creek road, three-and-a-half miles southeast of here.
Flames and heat thwarted efforts by a neighbor, Leonard Wolfer, to rescue the woman from the house, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies Chuck Battaglia and L. Ryan reported.
Wolfer saw flames coming from the one-story house as he drove to work. He saw the victim lying on the floor in the kitchen but was unable to remove her from the flaming building.
The fire started in a bedroom in the southwest corner of the house, apparently from an overturned coal oil or kerosene lamp, Battaglia reported.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 23, 1963, page 12
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BERKEY--May 22, Mrs. Sarah B., late of rt 2, Canby; mother of Delta Mirth, Oregon City; Rosie Pickett, Canby; Ada Rathkey and Jack Pratt in Calif.; 4 stepsons. Funeral services Monday, May 27, at 10:30 am, at the Canby Chapel of EVERHART & KENT. Interment Multnomah cemetery.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 27, 1963, page 40
Canby (Special) -- Sarah Belle Berkey, 84, died Wednesday morning in a fire which destroyed her home on Gribble Creek road, three-and-a-half miles southeast of here.
Flames and heat thwarted efforts by a neighbor, Leonard Wolfer, to rescue the woman from the house, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies Chuck Battaglia and L. Ryan reported.
Wolfer saw flames coming from the one-story house as he drove to work. He saw the victim lying on the floor in the kitchen but was unable to remove her from the flaming building.
The fire started in a bedroom in the southwest corner of the house, apparently from an overturned coal oil or kerosene lamp, Battaglia reported.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 23, 1963, page 12
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BERKEY--May 22, Mrs. Sarah B., late of rt 2, Canby; mother of Delta Mirth, Oregon City; Rosie Pickett, Canby; Ada Rathkey and Jack Pratt in Calif.; 4 stepsons. Funeral services Monday, May 27, at 10:30 am, at the Canby Chapel of EVERHART & KENT. Interment Multnomah cemetery.
The Oregonian, [Portland, OR], May 27, 1963, page 40
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