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Mary Louisa Collins Herring

Birth	:	10 Feb 1856 Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Death	:	20 Aug 1942 Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA
Burial	:	Greenlawn Cemetery, Elida, Allen County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.7691994, -84.2024994
Description	:	Mrs. Mary Collins Herring, 86, Spencerville. Mrs. Herring, who has been blind for a past 15 years, was burned in her home at Spencerville about 1 p. m., Thursday and died at 6:30 p. m., in St. Rita's hospital. Mrs. Herring and her husband, who is 86 and nearly blind, have lived alone for several years in their small home at Spencerville and have been using a gasoline stove for doing their cooking. WIFE'S SCREAMS BRING HUSBAND The husband lighted the stove about 1 p. m., Thursday to boil some water and a few minutes later heard his wife's screams when her clothing caught... Read More	Mrs. Mary Collins Herring, 86, Spencerville. Mrs. Herring, who has been blind for a past 15 years, was burned in her home at Spencerville about 1 p. m., Thursday and died at 6:30 p. m., in St. Rita's hospital. Mrs. Herring and her husband, who is 86 and nearly blind, have lived alone for several years in their small home at Spencerville and have been using a gasoline stove for doing their cooking. WIFE'S SCREAMS BRING HUSBAND The husband lighted the stove about 1 p. m., Thursday to boil some water and a few minutes later heard his wife's screams when her clothing caught fire when she is believed to have been reaching for some article on a shelf above the stove. Herring rushed in from an adjoining room and observed his wife standing with her clothing in flames he obtained a bucket of water with which he extinguished the blaze and then turned off the stove. No damage was caused to the home. Mrs. Herring was taken to the hospital in a C. B. Miller and Son ambulance. Mrs. Herring is survived by her husband, two foster daughters, Mrs. Hazel Medaugh of Spencerville and Mrs. Mabel Johns of Baltimore, Md., a sister, Mrs. Jane Dennison of Lima and a brother, George Collins of Toledo. Funeral services will be held in the home at 10 a. m., Saturday, with Rev. Anderson Brown, Methodist pastor, in charge. Burial will be in the Greenlawn mausoleum near Elida, under direction of the C. B. Miller and Son funeral home. The Lima News (OH), pgs. 1 & 4 Friday, August 21, 1942 -

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Mary Louisa Collins Herring death on 20 Aug 1942 in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA
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Longitude: -84.2024994

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Coordinate: 40.7691994, -84.2024994

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