{"id":5247,"date":"2012-03-18T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:49:17","slug":"sundays-obituary-walter-anthony-dreffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/18\/sundays-obituary-walter-anthony-dreffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday’s Obituary – Walter Anthony Dreffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Painter Dies As He Runs For Help<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the death notice for my mother’s father, Walter Anthony Dreffs.\u00c2\u00a0 He died on December 3, 1958.\u00c2\u00a0 The family story is that Grandpa died running through a field with a bucket of water, and his children joked that he “kicked the bucket.”\u00c2\u00a0 I never knew it was because he was the one who set fire to the house!\u00c2\u00a0 What a tragedy!<\/p>\n

Painter Dies As He Runs For Help<\/strong>
\nSAGINAW, Dec. 4 (AP) – House painter Walter A. Dreffs, 58, of Milwaukee, died of a heart attack Wednesday while running for aid after his blow torch set fire to a house.
\nHe had been using the torch to remove paint.\u00c2\u00a0 The house, owned by Miss Frances Dreier, suffered an estimated $2,000 damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Published in The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan on 04 December 1958, page 20.<\/p>\n

I’m still not clear on how this ended up in a newspaper in Benton Harbor when he was painting the house in Saginaw.\u00c2\u00a0 He lived in Zilwaukee<\/em> which is near Saginaw, not Milwaukee<\/em> as the article states.\u00c2\u00a0 Ironically, this is an Associated Press article and I couldn’t find it in The Saginaw News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the death notice for my mother’s father, Walter Anthony Dreffs.\u00c2\u00a0 He died on December 3, 1958.\u00c2\u00a0 The family story is that Grandpa died running through a field with a bucket of water, and his children joked that he “kicked the bucket.”\u00c2\u00a0 I never knew it was because he was the one who set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-sundays-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}