OBIT: Wayne H. & Patricia A. ZINDEL, 1938, Blair County, PA

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TWO YEAR-OLD GIRL AND BROTHER PERISH IN FLAMES
Children of Wayne Zindel Die As Flames Drive Rescuers from Blazing 
Structure 
CAUSE OF FIRE UNKNOWN

  Two small children were burned to death this morning at about eleven 
o'clock when fire of undetermined origin destroyed the home of Wayne 
Zindel, along the Janesville Pike, near the German Settlement two miles 
north of Tyrone.  
  The children, Patricia Ann Zindel, age two years, and her little 
brother, Wayne Howard Zindel, Jr., age one, perished in the blazing 
home before nearby neighbors were able to gain entrance to the house to 
effect their rescue.  The children were alone in the home, a small but 
substantial log structure, their mother, Mrs. Wayne Zindel, with 
another daughter, Constance, age three, having gone out for a few 
minutes to call on a neighbor.  
  Mrs. Zindel had been gone just a short time and was returning when 
she, together with others, saw smoke coming from the home.  Upon 
reaching the house, the entire interior was ablaze, it being impossible 
to enter the house to save the little children.   
  The Neptune Fire company of Tyrone was called, the firemen 
extinguishing the blaze and removing the bodies of the dead children 
from the ruins.  The bodies were taken to the Glass funeral home in, 
Tyrone to be prepared for burial. 
  The cause of the fire is undetermined, but is believed to have 
started from a stove.  Mrs. Zindel was suffering considerably from 
shock and was unable to be interviewed.   Mr. Zindel, the father of the 
children, was at work at the Tyrone mill of the West Virginia Pulp and 
Paper company. 
  The entire contents of the home were destroyed, nothing being saved 
from the flames.  
  Coroner Chester Rothrock was immediately notified of the tragedy and 
conducted a preliminary investigation into the deaths of the children 
after viewing the bodies at the Glass funeral home.  
  Patricia Ann Zindel was born on July 11, 1936, and Wayne Howard 
Zindel, Jr., born on July 29, 1937, the children of Wayne Howard and 
Katherine (Fisher) Zindel.  Funeral arrangements have not been 
completed.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., February 24, 1938