Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gallina, Robert Dwight, Jr., Constance, Billy, Frank March 1958
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Various Newspapers March 20, 23, 24, 1958
NORFOLK BLAZE FATAL TO 3
NORFOLK (AP) - An oil stove was blamed by firemen for the blaze in a 50-foot 
trailer which took the lives of three children of a Navy couple yesterday. A 
fourth child was in critical condition in a Norfolk Hospital.
W. H. Evans, South Norfolk deputy fire chief, said the oil stove in the center 
of the trailer evidently was the cause of the blaze.
Victims of the fire were Dwight, 5, Connie, 4, and Frankie, 3, children of 
personnelman 1/C Robert D. Gallina, 25, at sea aboard the destroyer Stickel, and 
Mrs. Mary Gallina, 25. Mrs. Gallina was in the trailer court office when the 
fire erupted.
Billy Gallina, 2, was taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke poisoning and 
burns. Hospital attendants said he was "just living."

FOURTH GALLINA CHILD DIES OF SEVERE BURNS
Frank Gallina, 2, son of Navy Personnelman 1.C. Robert D. Gallina, of Marion, 
and Mrs. Gallina, died Friday night in a Norfolk, Va., hospital, Mrs. Frank 
Gallina, of 348 Brentwood Dr., Robert's sister-in-law, reported today.
Three other children died in a flash fire Wednesday in the house trailer 
occupied by Robert D. Gallina, his wife, Mary, and the four children.
Mrs. Gallina said today that funeral services for the four children will be held 
Monday in Norfolk.
At the time of the tragedy Wednesday, the father, Robert, was aboard the USS 
Stickel in the Caribbean Sea. His wife, Mary, was in the trailer court office 
when the fire swept through the 50-foot house trailer. The trailer court is 
located in South Norfolk.
The other three children who died in the fire were: Robert Dwight Jr., 6, 
Constance, 5, and Billy, 22 months.
The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gallina, of 901 York St., drove to Norfolk 
Thursday.

Gallina Children - The bodies of the four children of Robert D. and Mrs. Mary 
Gallina were taken from the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home to Our Lady of Victory 
Chapel at the Naval Base for funeral services today at 9:30 a.m. A requiem mass 
of the angels was said by Chaplain Joseph J. Buzek, USN. Burial was in St. 
Mary's Cemetery.

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