BYRGE, Mrs. Delia 1885 - 1940

BYRGE, GARBER, BICKFORD, HANSON, BENSON, OLSON, SHERVIN, RUE

Posted By: Lynda Paxton (email)
Date: 8/3/2002 at 20:39:18

Date of Death: April 29, 1940

Clinton Woman Dies of Sudden Heart Attack

Stricken with a heart attack, Mrs. Delia Byrge, 55, 209 South Third street, fell to the street and died almost instantly at 4 p.m. Monday in front of 240 Third avenue South. Just before she was stricken, Mrs. Byrge had paused to talk to a young girl, Kay Garber and to hand the child an orange. Almost simultaneously, Mrs. Byrge collapsed, passed into a coma and died. A call for the coroner brought an assistant who found life was extinct. The body was moved to the Snell funeral home. Police officers were summoned to the scene by Mrs. F.H. Bickford, 236 Third avenue South, an aunt of the Garber child. They found the stricken woman lying on the ground between the sidewalk and the curbing where she had fallen.

Funeral not Scheduled - Services will be conducted Thursday afternoon and burial will be in Clinton Memorial Park. Other details will be announced later. The body reposes in the Snell funeral home. Delia Matilda Hanson was born Jan 27, 1885, the daughter of Andrew and Caroline Hanson of Perry, Wis., and married Dec 23, 1903 to Norman Byrge in that place. She was a member of the Royal Neighbor lodge in which she was an officer. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Ruth and Mrs. F.O. Benson of Clinton; her mother, Mrs. B. A. Hanson of Mt. Horeb, Wis.; two brothers, John Hanson of Black Earth, Wis., and Carl of Mt. Horeb, Wis., and three sisters, Mrs. W. F.Olson of Madison, Wis., Mrs. Albert Shervin of York, Wis., and Mrs. Anna Rue of Mt. Horeb. Her father and a son preceded her in death.