BURNHAM, Ruth 1901-1972

BURNHAM

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/11/2010 at 17:43:16

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Rule Cold Kills Osage Woman, 70

OSAGE, IOWA - Mrs. Ralph Burnham, 70, was found at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning by a family friend just outside the door of her near-new home at Osage. She froze to death, according to Mitchell County Medical Examiner Dr. L. A. Doyle.

Mrs. Burnham had apparently stepped out about 8 p.m. Monday night to sweep the snow from her steps, when she fell and was unable to get up. Temperatures dropped to -18. She was clad only in a housecoat and slippers.

--- Surgery ---

Mrs. Burnham had undergone hip surgery last summer where her hip socket was replaced.
She lived alone since the death of her husband on December 31. Mrs. Burnham's husband was a retired insurance agent and chairman of the board of the Osage Home Savings and Loan Association at the time of his death.

The body was found by Arnold Warren, a former business associate of her husband, who was also a family friend.

Services are pending at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage. Mrs. Burnham is survived by her sister, Mrs. Dorothy Snyder, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, January 25, 1972]
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The Osage Cemetery listing on IaGenWeb shows: BURNHAM, RUTH (loc) 1414 4 (died/buried) 24 JAN 1972.