Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dickerson, Lorraine Pauline August 18, 1943
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Sentinel-Standard - Wednesday, August 18, 1943

                    YOUNG IONIA WOMAN DEAD FROM POLIO
Stricken but a week ago with infantile paralysis, 23 years old Lorraine Pauline 
Dickinson, wife of Floyd Dickinson of Ionia, rural route 2, died early 
Wednesday morning in Blodgett Memorial hospital at Grand Rapids.

Mrs. Dickinson, who had been an employe of the war plant of AC Sparkplug in 
Ionia, became ill a week ago Wednesday at her home next door to her parents. 
Mrs. and Mrs. John Higbee, of Ionia township. She was removed to the home of 
her parents and last Sunday night taken by ambulance to Blodgett hospital where 
attempts were made to save her life. She died at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday morning 
after attempts during the night were made to save her by use of an iron lung, 
the attending physician declared. 

Born October 26, 1919, in Ionia township, Mrs. Dickinson was graduated from the 
Ionia high school in 1938. In April 1941, she was married to Floyd Dickinson 
who left for basic training in the United States navy only three weeks ago. He 
has been stationed at Great Lakes Training station and was immediately summoned 
to return. He arrived at the Grand Rapids hospital an hour before his wife 
died. She had been unconscious since Tuesday noon.

Surviving besides the husband are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Higbee, of 
Ionia township; two sisters, Frances and Jean, and a brother, Bruce, all at 
home; and her grandparents, Mrs. and Ms. E. Higbee, also of Ionia township.

Mrs. Dickinson's death was the first reported in Ionia county in several years 
from infantile paralysis

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Wednesday, 18 August,1943
Highland Park cemetery #OC-59

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