OBIT: Ruth KINSLEY, 1941, Somerset County, PA

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RUTH KINSLEY

Somerset Girl Fatally Burned

  Burns suffered Sunday afternoon, December 31, when her clothing ignited from a 
kitchen stove, resulted in the death in Community Hospital Wednesday of Ruth 
Kinsley, 11-year-old West Union Street girl.  Her death occurred at 2:15 a.m.
  The girl suffered first, second and third degree burns of the chest, legs and 
arms.  A sleeve on her dress caught fire as she held her arms over the open 
fireplace of the stove.
  Before members of the family could go to her rescue and beat out the flames 
she had been badly burned about the entire body.  After being treated at the 
office of a Somerset physician the girl was removed to Community Hospital.
  Ruth Kinsley was a daughter of William and Lillian (Nicholson) Kinsley and was 
born in Somerset.  Her father died 10 years ago.  Surviving are her mother and 
two brothers, George and Harry Kinsley, both at home.  Funeral arrangements in 
charge of the Charles R. Hauger Funeral Home.

Meyersdale Republican, January 4, 1941