Klinefelter, Grace Miss 1898-1928

KLINEFELTER, KLEINFELTER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 2/11/2014 at 19:17:11

Aug 2, 1928 Hawarden Independent

SETS FIRE TO HER CLOTHING
Miss Grace Klinefelter Ends Life in Terrible Manner ...Miss Grace Klinefelter of Alexandria; S. D., former well known Hawarden girl, committed suicide at her home Tuesday morning by burning herself to death. Miss Klinefelter set fire to her clothing after soaking it with kerosene. She died five hours later. Her mother reached her shortly after, the act but was unable to extinguish the flames in time to prevent fatal burns. She was taken ill last spring and despondency and illness are assigned as the cause of her taking her own life. The remains will be brought to: Hawarden Friday on the afternoon train on the Northwestern road but there will be no services held in this city: Interment will be made in the family plot in Grace Hill cemetery.

Grace Klinefelter was the youngest daughter of Mrs. G. W. Klinefelter and was but 30 years old she spent her childhood days in this vicinity. She attended the Hawarden public schools but she finished her high school course in the Alexandria schools in 1914 with-a Brilliant record. She had been employed for some time in the office of the Hanson county superintendent of schools. She was a young lady of excellent character arid had many friends in this city who will regret to hear of her untimely death.

She is survived by her mother and one sister, Miss Maud Klinefelter of Dickinson,N. D. Sincere sympathy is extended to the sorrowing ones in their great hour of affliction