Florence M. (Hough) Jay (1925)
FARRAND, HOUGH, JAY, NEWBURN
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 6/10/2012 at 09:31:42
The Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa
Friday, May 29, 1925, page 1Gas Fatal To Aged Woman
Death of Mrs. Jay Believed to Be Accidental
Mrs. Florence Jay, 74 years old, 1308 Des Moines street, was found dead at her home shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon as a result of fumes from a gas heater.
Police were called by neighbors who found the woman's body.
F. D. Long, 1304 Des Moines street, was one of the first to reach the body. He penetrated the gas filled room, and stopped the fumes escaping from the heater.
Coroner Guy Cliff was notified and went to the house to investigate the death which is believed to have been accidental.
Mrs. Jay had been taking her customary noonday nap in her room.
A roomer at the house, Miss Edna Isenhart returned at noon and started to enter the room but was repelled by the gas filled air. The oxygen in the room, which has no windows, had been burned out by the has heater and Mrs. Jay had been stifled.
Miss Isenhart called to neighbors who aided her in entering the room.
Mrs. Jay had been a resident of Des Moines since 1889,
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. F. Newburn, 1707 East Ninth street, and Mrs. R. E. - Mrs. H. F. Farrand, Field apartments, and four grandchildren.
She was a member of the Union Park Church of Christ.
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Transcriber's note: Florence lived in Madison County for several years and died in Des Moines on June 1, 1925. She was the wife of Thomas E. Jay and the daughter of William and Marjorie (Hubbell) Hough. Florence is buried in the Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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