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Headline Doris Lee Garrison Is Burned to Death From Gasoline Fire
Burned Fatally Thursday morning when she entered a door as her sister was throwing out a can of burning gasoline.
Text Doris Lee Garrison, 15 years old died at o’clock that night in the Wheaton hospital. The sister Mable Garrison, 17 years old had tried to ignite a fire in the kitchen stove about 8 o’clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W.Garrison, two and a half miles southeast of Fairview.

She poured gasoline from a can which she thought contained kerosene. The gasoline caught fire, and as she threw the blazing can out the back door of the house her younger sister appeared in the path of the flames, which enveloped her body from the chest to her feet. The victim was moved immediately to the Wheaton hospital where she died.

Mable received burns on the hands and legs and was removed to her to home after being treated at the hospital.

Doris Lee is survived by her parents and six sisters Mrs. Cora Mae Marshall of Joplin, Mrs. Endna Lukon of Kansas City, and Mable Norma, Louise and Sharon Sue Garrison at the home; five brothers, Roland Garrison of Rocky Comfort, Kelley Garrison of Fairview, Cpl John Austin Garrison with the Third army in Germany and J.W. Garrison and Kenneth Garrison at the home.

Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Muncey Chapel, two miles north of Wheaton by the Rev. Carlton Knight, Burial will be in the church cemetery, under direction of the Pogue funeral home.
Research Note:

Death Cert #16211

Name: Doris Lee Garrison

Born: Aug. 1, 1929, Idaho

Parents: John and Viola Aubrey Garrison

Died: May 10, 1945

Buried: Muncie Chapel Cemetery, Barry Co., MO

Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Democrat
Date May 17, 1945
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Submitted by Barbara Erwin