Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Waidelich, J. Henry 1943
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Belding Banner-News, 30 Dec 1943

Easton Township Farmer Dies of Burns

Clothing Caught Fire As He Attempted to Prevent Spread of Blaze.

J. Henry Waidelich, 57 year old farmer, living in the southeast part of Easton
township met a tragic and terrible death Monday morning when he died of burns
suffered Sunday afternoon when he attempted to stamp out the flames of a brush
fire on his farm and which he feared were about to spread into a field of wheat
which adjoined the spot where he had been burning brush.  Waidelich died at the
Ionia hospital early Monday.  He had been rushed to the hospital following the
tragedy at his home.

The Easton man had been engaged in burning some brush and leaves and when he saw
that the fire was spreading out and that in all likelihood it might get into a
wheat field, he attempted to stamp the flames out with is feet.  In some manner
the fire caught into his pantlegs and the lower part of his body was soon a mass
of flames and he was badly burned before members of his family succeeded in
extinguishing the flames. 

Waidelich, although terribly burned about the lower part of his body was
conscious at the time he entered the hospital and told the particulars as to how
the accident occurred.

Surviving are the widow, Alberta; a daughter, Lois, at home; two sisters, Mrs.
Walter Harley of near Woodard lake and Mrs. Claude Herring of Grand Rapids, and
a step-sister, Mrs. Wesley Alderman of Jackson.

Funeral services were held at Ionia Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
Duncan MacPhee pastor of the Ionia Free Methodist church, officiating, and
burial was in Easton cemetery.


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