Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crame, Avis Helen (Coville) 1920
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Belding Banner News, 10 & 17 Mar 1920

The many friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Irving Crame, better known as “Avis 
Coville”, were shocked when the news was spread Saturday that she had died of 
burns at her home in Grand Rapids.

As near as we have been able to learn, the facts of the tragedy are.  Mrs. 
Crame, just before noon, on Saturday, thinking the room was getting chilly, 
went to the stove to stir the fire and threw in fuel and because of the 
ignition of coal gas from the soft coal used, her clothing caught fine, the 
flames spreading so rapidly that she was, of course, terribly frightened.  
Nevertheless she made a frantic but vain effort to save her life.

She rushed to the bath room thinking to drown the flames by turning the faucets 
on and lying in the tub – but the pipes were frozen.  Her next thought was to 
roll in the snow outside, but this method also failed, and when two neighbor 
women found her she was lying on an ash pile in the back yard, her clothes 
literally burned from her body.

She was rushed to Butterworth hospital, but died Saturday evening, and was 
conscious to the very last.

Her mother, Mrs. Mary Coville and her brother-in-law, Percy Hanks, went to her 
as quickly as possible after the word reached here, but arrived there just a 
few minutes too late to see their loved one alive.  Mrs. Crame, realizing to 
the full that she would have to die, called repeatedly for her mother, and 
asked those in attendance to try and get her mother to her.  But nothing could 
be done, the train was late, and Mrs. Crame died without first seeing her 
mother.

She leaves besides her husband and mother, four small children, Lucile, 
Genevieve, Thomas and baby daughter, the latter was a witness of her mother’s 
accident.

The remains were brought here to her childhood home on Monday afternoon and the 
funeral was held from the residence at corner of Congress and Broas streets 
Tuesday afternoon.  Obituary will appear next week.


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