Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Dorothy Mantel MOSTELLER, 1938

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Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
March 1, 1938

BURNS PROVE FATAL

Mrs. David Mosteller, mother of eight, succumbs.

Mrs. Dorothy Mosteller, wife of David Mosteller, of Bacton Hills, who suffered 
injuries when she was burned at her home on Thursday, died in the Homeopathic 
Hospital at 5:42 o'clock this morning. She was 35 years old.

Mrs. Mosteller was a daughter of Arthur and Olivia Adams Mantel. Besides her 
husband, eight children survive.


Daily Republican
March 1, 1938

Mrs. David Mosteller, 35, of Bacton Hills, Charlestown Township, died today in 
Homeopathic Hospiital, West Chester, of burns sustained in her home last 
Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. Mosteller was the mother of eight small children, one of whom, a five year 
old boy, is credited with saving their home from destruction.

The mother was at home with two children, aged three and five, and was working 
in the kitchen when she is believed to have fainted and fell against the kitchen 
range. Her clothing caught fire and she was horribly burned.

The five year old boy threw water on the blaze which spread to kitchen 
furniture, but practically all the children's clothing which had been placed in 
a basket awaiting ironing was consumed. After the boy had extinguished the blaze 
he called a neighbor and Mrs. Mosteller was taken to the hospital where no hope 
was held for her recovery.

The family is in destitute circumstances and in dire need of clothing for the 
eight children, six of whom were in school at the time of the tragedy. Mr. 
Mosteller, a farmhand, was at work.

Coroner Hughes, of Paoli, who investigated this morning, issued a certificate of 
accidental death.