ARNOLD, Tamar 1869-1944

ARNOLD, EGGLESTON

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/11/2022 at 19:38:55

Whitten Woman's Clothing On Fire; Burns Fatal

Mrs. Frank Arnold Dies From Injuries She Received When Clothes Caught On Fire

Mrs. Frank Arnold who lived on a farm a mile southwest of Whitten, died in the Deaconess hospital in Marshalltown Sunday afternoon from burns she received when clothing caught fire at her home Sunday morning.

Mrs. Arnold was preparing breakfast for her family about seven o'clock in the morning. Her apron caught on fire from the kitchen stove. When she saw the fire she screamed for help. Her husband who was near came to her rescue at once. She had become hysterical from fright and refused to let her husband help her. She ran into an adjoining room. The husband called to his daughter who was still in bed and with her help the fire was put out. Mrs. Arnold had received third degree burns all over her body and she suffered intense pain until a doctor came and gave a sedative. She was rushed to the hospital as soon as possible. She was beyond help and death came a few hours after she was brought to the hospital.

Spent Nearly All Her Life In Whitten Vicinity
Mrs. Arnold was 74 years old. She was born at New Diggings, Wisconsin, and was a member of the large Eggleston family. She came to Grundy county with her parents when she was 4 years old and spent all of the remainder of her life in that community. For a number of years she was a sufferer from diabetes.

Members of her immediate family who survive are her husband, two sons, George and Walter who reside in the Whitten vicinity and the daughter Fern, who is at home. Other surviving relatives are four brothers: George and Jas. Eggleston from Grundy Center, Will Eggleston of Eldora, and John Eggleston from Whitten. There are three sisters: Miss Marion Eggleston, of Des Moines; Mrs. Jennie Callaway, Moline, Ill., and Mrs. Evelyn Watson, Barret, Minn.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Whitten yesterday afternoon. Rev. Walter Dimmlich conducted the service. Burial was in the Benson cemetery.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 17 February 1944, pg 1