Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....WENTWORTH, BARBARA JEAN March 27, 1935
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Gladwin County Record dated 04-03/1935 Column - 3 Page - 1 
FINAL RITES FOR GIRL FIRE VICTIM

   Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at Dale for Barbara Jean 
Wentworth, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wentworth of Tobacco 
township who was burned to death in a kerosene lamp tragedy at the Wentworth 
home Wednesday night. The Wentworths had gone away for the evening, leaving 
Barbara Jean and an infant child in the care of the hired girl. When filling 
the lamp about 8 o'clock fuel had apparently
leaked out and later caused the explosion.
   When the lamp exploded, spraying the room with burning oil, the girl 
grabbed the baby and ran out of the house. The six year-old Barbara Jean, she 
said, was following her. But Barbara Jean either became dazed in the smoke, or 
else ran back into the house, for her body was found inside when flames had 
finally consumed the building. 
   Brief services were first held at Ray Wentworth's near Dale, before burial 
in the Dale cemetery. 

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