Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Lenore Edna July 1, 1912
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Monday, July 1, 1912
A case of virulent diphtheria was reported to the city offices Sunday, the 
first of the kind in a year and a half, and it was so severe a case that the 
child, taken sick Sunday died at 1 o’clock this afternoon.  The contagion 
broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dixon, 141 East Washington street 
Sunday.  The stricken was Lenore Edna, their seven years and nine months old 
daughter.  Dr. Winchell was called, and he called into consultation City 
Health Officer McCann and both pronounced the case diphtheria.  The rapidity 
with which the disease worked its fatal results can be better imagined from 
the fact that the child and her parents were down town Saturday evening, 
trading at the stores.  There are two other children in the family, but so far 
they are not reported ill and the contagion is well in hand.

The Dixon family came here from Detroit when the Hayes-Ionia factory was 
established, Mr. Dixon being employed there in one of the auto body 
departments.  The funeral will be private and the remains interred in Highland 
Park cemetery.  



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