OBIT: Ruth Elizabeth FLAMM, 1946, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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RUTH ELIZABETH FLAMM

Little Flamm Girl Fatally Burned

  BERLIN, Sept. 18 - Tragedy entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flamm 
Saturday afternoon when their only daughter, Ruth Elizabeth Flamm, was fatally 
burned.
  Her father had burned brush earlier in the day and presumed the embers had all 
burned out.  It is not known just how the child's clothing caught fire, but her 
parents think she was playing near the embers and perhaps a spark ignited her 
clothing.  The mother heard her child's screams from the kitchen where she was 
working and running to her found her clothing in flames.  She beat out the 
flames and the child who had been playing alone was rushed to the Hazel 
McGilvery Hospital in Meyersdale where she died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning 
after a night of suffering.
  Ruth Elizabeth Flamm was born in Brothersvalley Township May 4, 1939.  She is 
survived by her parents and two brothers, Carl H. and James W., both at home.
  Funeral services were held at the Johnson Funeral Home, Monday at 3:30 p.m., 
with Rev. Herman C. Snyder officiating.  Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in 
Berlin.

Meyersdale Republican, September 20, 1946