Obit: Zurn, Mable (Hunt) (1895
- 1930)
Contact: Linda Mertens
Email:
mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Zurn, Hunt
----Source - Anna Johnson’s Scrapbook
Mable Zurn (5 May 1895 - 6 May
1930)
Dorchester folks were shocked and saddened when the news spread
Tuesday morning that Mable Hunt Zurn had passed away at LaCrosse. As relatives
here didn't even know she was ill, many were the conjectures as to her possible
death.
She was ill such a short time, and apparently not seriously, they
didn't write for fear of frightening the home folks. She took ill on Thursday
with flu and inflammatory rheumatism so Mr. Zurn didn't go out on his run that
morning for he didn't want to leave her. When the rheumatism got into her hands
and her entire side, he insisted that she go to the hospital. Mable thought it
foolish but on Monday she gave in for she saw she must have care, so they took
her to St. Francis Hospital that afternoon. Mr. Zurn left her about 10 that
evening after asking both the doctor and the sister in charge if he should send
for her folks, but she seemed so strong and in no danger that they sent him home
to get a good night's rest. But they hadn't reckoned with a bad blood clot that
had formed or the goiter she had and the complications were too much for her
heart and her husband was called back shortly after midnight. At 1:30 a.m. she
passed away, one and one half hours after her 35th birthday.
The funeral
was held yesterday at the Dwyer Funeral Parlors at LaCrosse, the Presbyterian
minister officiating, the funeral under the direction of the Brotherhood
Railroad Trainmen and she was laid to rest in one of LaCrosse's most beautiful
cemeteries.
Mable Hunt was born in Dorchester May 5, 1895, and was the
oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Hunt. A merry, laughing little girl, she grew
into a merry, happy young woman beloved by all who knew her. Sept. 15, 1915, she
was united in marriage to Wm. Zurn and went to LaCrosse to live, as Mr. Zurn was
a railroad man with a run out of LaCrosse. Two children were born to them,
Vernon Lomont, 13 yrs. and Kenneth Leroy, 11 yrs. old.
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