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Rapelatto, Alidee (1930-1936)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1936 Apr 15 p. 1

Birth date: 1930

text of obituary:

PLANE WITH MEDICINE ARRIVES TOO LATE

At Kemmerer, Wyo., a six year old child, Alidee Rapelatto, died last Friday because a plane carrying serum to her snowbound ranch home arrived too late. She was the second member of her family to die from poisoning caused by eating home-canned mushrooms. Her sister, Joyce, 2½, died before medical aid could reach her.

The plane circled the town several times and then dropped botulinus serum in a parachute at the rear door of a hospital.