Jackson County IA Archives News.....Snake Bite Fatal July 27, 1944
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Bellevue Herald July 27, 1944
Maquoketa Community Press, July 27, 1944

Snake Bite Fatal To Small Child

Darla Goepfert, 4 years old, died in Bellevue Hospital Thursday morning.

Darla K. Goepfert, 4 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin G. Goepfert of 
north of Bellevue, passed away in Moulton Hospital at 2:45 o’clock Tuesday 
morning as the result of being bitten by a snake, presumably a rattler, Monday 
afternoon between four and five o’clock. The child was rushed to the hospital 
and serum was administered, but to no avail.

The child was attending a party at the home of her grandfather, Rudolph 
Schroeder, who lives near LaMotte, and was playing with other small children 
in the yard around some fruit trees. It is reported the grown-ups heard her 
scream. Rushing to her they noticed the punctures on the child’s leg caused by 
the reptile’s fangs and hurriedly brought her to the hospital. Her small 
companions didn’t see the snake but thought a cat had bitten her, but from the 
pattern made by the fangs, persons knew it was a snake bite. When the child 
regained consciousness in the hospital and was asked what bit her she 
replied: “It looked like a stick and was black,” it was reported. 
Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin G. Goepfert, and one sister 
about a year old.

Bellevue Herald


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