Obit: Zurn, Mable (Hunt) (1895 - 1930)

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Surnames: Zurn, Hunt

----Source - Anna Johnson’s Scrapbook

Mable Zurn (5 May 1895 - 6 May 1930)

Dorchester folks were shocked and saddened when the news spread Tuesday morning that Mable Hunt Zurn had passed away at LaCrosse. As relatives here didn't even know she was ill, many were the conjectures as to her possible death.

She was ill such a short time, and apparently not seriously, they didn't write for fear of frightening the home folks. She took ill on Thursday with flu and inflammatory rheumatism so Mr. Zurn didn't go out on his run that morning for he didn't want to leave her. When the rheumatism got into her hands and her entire side, he insisted that she go to the hospital. Mable thought it foolish but on Monday she gave in for she saw she must have care, so they took her to St. Francis Hospital that afternoon. Mr. Zurn left her about 10 that evening after asking both the doctor and the sister in charge if he should send for her folks, but she seemed so strong and in no danger that they sent him home to get a good night's rest. But they hadn't reckoned with a bad blood clot that had formed or the goiter she had and the complications were too much for her heart and her husband was called back shortly after midnight. At 1:30 a.m. she passed away, one and one half hours after her 35th birthday.

The funeral was held yesterday at the Dwyer Funeral Parlors at LaCrosse, the Presbyterian minister officiating, the funeral under the direction of the Brotherhood Railroad Trainmen and she was laid to rest in one of LaCrosse's most beautiful cemeteries.

Mable Hunt was born in Dorchester May 5, 1895, and was the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Hunt. A merry, laughing little girl, she grew into a merry, happy young woman beloved by all who knew her. Sept. 15, 1915, she was united in marriage to Wm. Zurn and went to LaCrosse to live, as Mr. Zurn was a railroad man with a run out of LaCrosse. Two children were born to them, Vernon Lomont, 13 yrs. and Kenneth Leroy, 11 yrs. old.