Name: Jessie May Hiatt
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1941
Birth County: Hubbard
Birth State: Minnesota
Father: Wilbert Earl Hiatt
Mother: Mildred Purcel
File Number: 1941-MN-018837
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The Sebeka Review, November 2, 1945
FARM HOME FIRE CLAIMS THREE NEAR PARK RAPIDS
A news dispatch to the Minneapolis Star Journal gave the following account of tragedy near Park Rapids in which three children lost their lives and the mother and another daughter painfully burned in a fire which destroyed a farm house.
Park Rapids, Minn. – Seriously burned in a fire which took the lives of three of her five children Tuesday night, Mrs. Wilbert Hiatt and her son Kenneth, 2, were in a hospital here today while her soldier husband was en route home from the west coast.
Victims of the fire, which Coroner A.W. Peterson of Hubbard county said started from explosion of a gasoline lantern, were Alice, 6, Lorraine, 4, and Bessie May, 3. A fifth child, Dorothy, 9, escaped unhurt.
The fire razed the Hiatt home 15 miles southeast of here. A neighbor, Mrs. Alvin Gack, drove to the scene in time to pull Mrs. Hiatt and Kenneth from the building, she told authorities.
Red Cross officials said Hiatt had been notified and was returning from American Lake, Wash., where he is a medical corpsman at the veteran's hospital there.
[Bio provided by Jim Childers; Thank you]
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1941
Birth County: Hubbard
Birth State: Minnesota
Father: Wilbert Earl Hiatt
Mother: Mildred Purcel
File Number: 1941-MN-018837
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The Sebeka Review, November 2, 1945
FARM HOME FIRE CLAIMS THREE NEAR PARK RAPIDS
A news dispatch to the Minneapolis Star Journal gave the following account of tragedy near Park Rapids in which three children lost their lives and the mother and another daughter painfully burned in a fire which destroyed a farm house.
Park Rapids, Minn. – Seriously burned in a fire which took the lives of three of her five children Tuesday night, Mrs. Wilbert Hiatt and her son Kenneth, 2, were in a hospital here today while her soldier husband was en route home from the west coast.
Victims of the fire, which Coroner A.W. Peterson of Hubbard county said started from explosion of a gasoline lantern, were Alice, 6, Lorraine, 4, and Bessie May, 3. A fifth child, Dorothy, 9, escaped unhurt.
The fire razed the Hiatt home 15 miles southeast of here. A neighbor, Mrs. Alvin Gack, drove to the scene in time to pull Mrs. Hiatt and Kenneth from the building, she told authorities.
Red Cross officials said Hiatt had been notified and was returning from American Lake, Wash., where he is a medical corpsman at the veteran's hospital there.
[Bio provided by Jim Childers; Thank you]
Name: Jessie May Hiatt
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1941
Birth County: Hubbard
Birth State: Minnesota
Father: Wilbert Earl Hiatt
Mother: Mildred Purcel
File Number: 1941-MN-018837
-------------------------
The Sebeka Review, November 2, 1945
FARM HOME FIRE CLAIMS THREE NEAR PARK RAPIDS
A news dispatch to the Minneapolis Star Journal gave the following account of tragedy near Park Rapids in which three children lost their lives and the mother and another daughter painfully burned in a fire which destroyed a farm house.
Park Rapids, Minn. – Seriously burned in a fire which took the lives of three of her five children Tuesday night, Mrs. Wilbert Hiatt and her son Kenneth, 2, were in a hospital here today while her soldier husband was en route home from the west coast.
Victims of the fire, which Coroner A.W. Peterson of Hubbard county said started from explosion of a gasoline lantern, were Alice, 6, Lorraine, 4, and Bessie May, 3. A fifth child, Dorothy, 9, escaped unhurt.
The fire razed the Hiatt home 15 miles southeast of here. A neighbor, Mrs. Alvin Gack, drove to the scene in time to pull Mrs. Hiatt and Kenneth from the building, she told authorities.
Red Cross officials said Hiatt had been notified and was returning from American Lake, Wash., where he is a medical corpsman at the veteran's hospital there.
[Bio provided by Jim Childers; Thank you]
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1941
Birth County: Hubbard
Birth State: Minnesota
Father: Wilbert Earl Hiatt
Mother: Mildred Purcel
File Number: 1941-MN-018837
-------------------------
The Sebeka Review, November 2, 1945
FARM HOME FIRE CLAIMS THREE NEAR PARK RAPIDS
A news dispatch to the Minneapolis Star Journal gave the following account of tragedy near Park Rapids in which three children lost their lives and the mother and another daughter painfully burned in a fire which destroyed a farm house.
Park Rapids, Minn. – Seriously burned in a fire which took the lives of three of her five children Tuesday night, Mrs. Wilbert Hiatt and her son Kenneth, 2, were in a hospital here today while her soldier husband was en route home from the west coast.
Victims of the fire, which Coroner A.W. Peterson of Hubbard county said started from explosion of a gasoline lantern, were Alice, 6, Lorraine, 4, and Bessie May, 3. A fifth child, Dorothy, 9, escaped unhurt.
The fire razed the Hiatt home 15 miles southeast of here. A neighbor, Mrs. Alvin Gack, drove to the scene in time to pull Mrs. Hiatt and Kenneth from the building, she told authorities.
Red Cross officials said Hiatt had been notified and was returning from American Lake, Wash., where he is a medical corpsman at the veteran's hospital there.
[Bio provided by Jim Childers; Thank you]
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