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Boese, Henry (d. 1936)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1936 Jul 29 p. 1
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text of obituary:
Cordell, Okla. — Three lives are the tragic sacrifice claimed by a fire which occurred last Thursday afternoon when an automobile plunged into a gasoline pump at a Corn filling station. Two persons who survive are critically injured.
Henry Boese until recently a resident of Washita county, died late last Thursday night at the Florence hospital in Cordell as a result of general burns over his entire body.
Jacob Zielke of Corn was the second to die from injuries received in the blaze which destroyed the filling station building within a short time. He died last Friday noon in a Weatherford hospital of secondary burns about the lower part of his body, extending from his feet upward to his waist.
Kenneth Kissler of Corn, 9 years old, died Tuesday night in a Weatherford hospital from burns received when the car he was driving smashed into the filling station pump.
His father, Rueben [sic Reuben] Kissler, and his brother, Calvin Kissler, 12 years old, also were critically burned in the tragedy and have been patients in the Weatherford hospital. They were reported to be recovering.
The blaze occurred when the youthful driver lost control of the car and the automobile plunged into the gasoline pump, spraying the contents of the 10-gallon gasoline chamber over the car. Flames from the burning gasoline sprayed over the driveway covering the bodies of the two Kissler boys, of Mr. Boese, and of Mr. Zielke.
