Brown County KS Archives Obituaries.....Lightsinger, Mary November 5, 1926
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Fairview Enterprise, Fairview, KS, Nov. 18, 1926
The death of Mrs. Mary Lightsinger occurred at her home Friday noon, November 
5, the result of burns received Thursday.  Mary was a familiar figure to 
residents of this community, always busy around the yard of her little home on 
Commercial St.; especially was she interested in the appearance of her 
premises in the spring and fall, raking off and burning the leaves in the fall 
and the dead grass in the spring.  One of her hands was paralyzed and this she 
always had wrapped, these bandages catching fire she tried repeatedly to 
extinguish it with her able hand.  The fire, however, spread to her clothing 
and in a short time she was enveloped in flames.  Her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. 
Parcells, succeeded in putting out the fire but not until her body from the 
waist down was a mass of burned flesh.  The doctor held out no hope of 
recovery for her from the first.  Thursday night she became unconscious, 
gradually sinking until Friday, shortly afternoon she passed away.  She is 
survived by her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Pierce and two grandsons.  The funeral 
was held from the First Reformed Church Sunday afternoon.  Rev. R. R. Back 
made a most appropriate talk.  Burial was made in the Isely Cemetery.

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