Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Newspapers........Media Woman (Parsons) Hurt Critically In Stair Fall, 1955 Contributed to PAGenWeb Archives by Nancy Annie Odegard - Nurse73NAO@aol.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ Media Woman (Parsons) Hurt Critically In Stair Fall - 1955 Chester Times 30 December 1955 Friday Media Woman Hurt Critically In Stair Fall MEDIA -- Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons, 68, wife of Dr. Isaac I. Parsons, 101 N. Olive st., Media, was admitted to Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital with a fractured skull at 5:45 a.m. today. Dr. Parsons said she apparently had fallen down a flight of stairs at their home before 5 a.m. He said he awakened at 5 a.m. and found his wife wasn't in the bedroom. He searched the house and found her slumped at the bottom of the stairs on the first floor, unconscious. He called the Media ambulance and had her taken to the hospital where she was reported in critical condition. Mrs. Parsons was superintendent of Media Hospital, which went out of existence five years ago, and has been active in civic and American Legion auxiliary affairs. Dr. Parsons, who is on the courtesy staff of University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and Mrs. Parsons have one daughter, Mrs. Morton Johnson, Locksley. Note: Elizabeth Hennessey Parsons, died 31 December 1955; interment Media Cemetery. This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/newspapers/parsons-e.txt