Bio: White, Frank – House Fire (18 Mar 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: White, Quelle, Gehrke

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 24 Mar 1976

Fire of undetermined origin gutted the two-story frame home occupied by Frank white, 85, on Fourth Street (Owen) early Thursday morning.

Frank had apparently fallen asleep watching a late TV movies in a chair in the living room, and a truck driver crossing the railroad tracks on Country Trunk X notice the blaze. He swung around the block and got Frank from the house, and then Frank pounded on the door of his neighbor, Roy Quelle, who called the fire company after being awaken at 3:15 a.m.

Frank was taken in the ambulance to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where he was treated for 2nd degree burns to his buttocks and 1st degree burns up his back about his neck. He was released the next day from the hospital and is now a resident of the Clark County Health Center.

He is a widower and had lived alone for the past several years.

Fire Chief Ron Gehrke estimated the loss at between $2,550 and $3.000.