Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Endres, Virginia 1952
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The  1 ½ year old Howard Endres was fatally burned Tuesday morning at the farm 
home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Endres, Clarksville, route 2, three 
miles east of Freeport.  Virginia Endres, 28 the boy’s mother was also burned 
critically and died later Tuesday afternoon at Pennock hospital where she and 
the boy were taken by Mr. Endres after the fire.  Howard died about two hours 
after admittance.



The fire apparently started when Mrs. Endres attempted to build the fire in the 
living room stove with kerosene, causing the explosion.  The father, who was in 
the barn at the time heard the explosion about 7 a.m. and ran to the house and 
met his wife coming out of the door screaming and then fainted.  Most of her 
clothing had been burned of her body.  Mr. Endres went inside and found the boy 
about six feet from the stove with most of his clothing burned.



The Freeport Fire Department answered the alarm but most of the interior of the 
house was destroyed or damaged by smoke.  The family has lived on a farm in the 
area about six or seven years.  Mrs. Endres and her son were taken to the 
Nester funeral home at 

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