Marion Skinner (-1936)

SKINNER

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/8/2010 at 10:44:12

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thurday, November 5, 1936.

Is Burned When Lab Apparatus Explodes

Marion Skinner of Stafford, Ariz, graduate student in veterinary anatomy at Iowa State college, sustained burns about the face, arms and hands Thursday morning when apparatus with which he was working exploded.

Skinner was reported to have been working alone in the anatomy laboratory when the explosion occurred. He was taken to the college hospital for treatment.

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Friday, November 6, 1936.

I. S. Student Dies of Burns In Lab Blast

Marion Skinner of Stafford, Ariz., veterinary anatomy graduate student at Iowa State college, died Friday afternoon at the college hospital of injuries sustained in an explosion in the Veterinary Medicine building Thursday morning.

Funeral arrangements await word from Stafford's father, who could not immediately be located. Stafford is survived by his wife, who was with him here.

The explosion, according to authorities, was the result of a spark, caused by defective wiring, which ignited the gas which had formed in a laboratory following the use of a preserving fluid. Skinner was cleaning equipment when the explosion occurred.

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Monday, November 9, 1936.

SKINNER WILL BE BURIED IN UTAH

The body of Marion Skinner of Stafford, Ariz., who died Friday of injuries sustained Thursday in an explosion in the Veterinary Medicine building at Iowa State college, was shipped to Ogden, Utah, Monday morning for funeral and burial services.

Mrs. Skinner, whose family home is in Ogden, and her mother, who came to Ames to meet her, accompanied the body.

College hospital members said that burns which Skinner sustained in the blast were not apparently serious enough to cause death but that he may have inhaled flames which burned his lungs.

Skinner was a graduate student in the veterinary medicine division.