CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF DANIEL CRAIG BEACOM

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Beacom Boy Dies of Burns
Infant's Mother Was Former Valfred Olsen
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	Funeral services for Daniel Craig, two-month old son of Mr. and 
Mrs. James E. Beacom, who died Saturday from burns and shock, were held 
from the Winters Funeral Home in Morningside Monday afternoon at 2:30 
with Rev. O.L. Levorson of Hartington officiating.  Burial was made in 
the Morningside cemetery in Babyland.
	The tragedy which resulted in the infant's death took place at 
the Beacom apartment at the Sioux City airbase.  The baby had been suffer-
ing with a cold and his mother had been using a tea kettle on a hot plate 
at the side of the bed to steam the child to relieve the cold.  The clothing 
on the bed caught fire from the hot plate.
	Two neighbors rushed to Mrs. Beacom's aid when they smelled smoke 
and they took the baby from the burning bed.  The infant was rushed to a 
doctor at Sergeant Bluff and later taken to a Sioux City hospital where he 
died of third degree burns and shock.
	surviving are a the boy's parents and eighteen month old sister; and 
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Olsen of Hartington.
	Among out-of-town relatives and friends attending the funeral were Mr. 
and Mrs. Kenneth Thorpe and son of Waterbury, Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Carlton of 
Council Bluffs, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. William Olsen and sons, Franklin and LeRoy, 
Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Riibe and Mrs. Albert Nordby of Hartington; and Mr. and Mrs. 
Ed Strathman, Mrs. Duane Olsen and Mrs. Lowell Burkett of LeMars, Ia.

December 1950 Cedar County News