Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kussmaul, Fay (son Of Cottlieb) October 21, 1921
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - October 28, 1921
                 TERRIBLE DEATH OF WOODBURY LAD
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD FAY KUSSMAUL Badly BURNED ON THURSDAY.
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   Fay Kussmaul, 11 year old son of Gottlieb Kussmaul of Woodbury was burned so
badly last Thursday 
evening that he lived only through the night, dying Friday morning.
   It seems the father was working at the beet weighing station and the lad went
home about six o'clock to get 
supper.  He took the kerosene can and poured oil on some cobs and coals when the
explosion came.  So 
great was the explosion that the oil can was said to be perfectly flattened like a
sheet of tin.  The boy was so 
badly burned that nearly every bit of clothing was burned off but his shoes  Even
his eyelids, lips and nose 
were nearly gone.
   In his fright he ran out of doors and attracted the attention of Rev. Orville
Shantz, who noticed the boy come 
out of the house and Peter Fender, a neighbor and the two men rushed to the lad's
assistance and smothered 
the flames and removed him to the parsonage.  A hurry-up call was given for Dr.
Andrews of Woodland, who 
arrived in ten minutes.  The doctor found the boy badly burned and advised his
removal to Pennock hospital 
where he died the next morning about eight o'clock.  It was found that about
four-fifths of his flesh was 
burned very badly.
   The funeral was held in the U. B. church at Woodbury Saturday at two P. M.
Interment in the Lakeside 
cemetery.
   The house was also set on fire by the explosion but the flames were soon
extinguished by Mr. and Mrs. A. 
Middaugh, who hearing the explosion, had gone to see what the trouble was.
   The mother has been gone from the home since the lad was four years old and he
has been cared for by his 
father.

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