1926 obit. Mrs. Alice (Fiske) Colburn-Brattleboro,           
Date:	5/24/98 6:53:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)

from the Brattleboro Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, VT.  1926

                GAS INHALATION RESULTS FATALLY
Mrs. Alice Colburn Fails to Regain Consciousness Following Accidental
                        Poisoning Tuesday

        Mrs. Alice Mae (Fiske) Colburn, 31, wife of Delbert E. Colburn, an
employe of the Central Vermont roundhouse, died in her home at 70 Clark
street at 11.30 last night.  Death was due to bronchial pneumonia
resulting from the accidental inhalaton of carbon monoxide gas from the
exhaust of an automobile in Mr. Colburn's garage.  She was found there
unconscious shortly after noon Tuesday and did not regain consciousness.

        Mrs. Colburn was born in Wilder April 14, 1895, a daughter of George
and Ida Mae Fiske.  She lived there 20 years and then came to
Brattleboro, where she has lived since.  On Nov. 26, 1911, she married
Mr. Colburn.

        She was a member of Sedgwick Woman's Relief corps and the First Baptist
church and the Anna L. Gale class of that church.

        Besides her humband, she leaves her mother, who lives in Brattleboro, a
son, Delbert E. Colburn, jr., and one brother and two sisters:  Earl
Fiske of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Galdys Morrill of Quincy, Mass., and Mrs.
Mildred Williams of Detroit.

        The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow at 2.30 p.m. Rev. Dr.
A.H. Gage, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate.  The
burial will take place in Norwich.
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Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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