The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-26
MISS STELLMAN DIES
OF BLOOD POISONING
Widely Known Brattleboro Nurse, Sup
erintendent of Mutual Aid Assocl-
alton, Was in Syracuse.

eIlnJSnQcuG VI A4utlldl 114d l1nSOS@
alton, Was in Syracuse.
News received here yesterday morn |
ing of the death of Miss Frances Marie
StelIman. 43. superintendent of the
Brattleboro Mutual Aid association,
which occurred in Syracuse, \. Y, Sat
urday night, brought a feeling of sad
ness TO her wide circle of friends and
acuuaintanees, many of whom were un-
aware of her illness. Miss Stellman
had been troubled with pyorrhea, and
shortly before she went to Syracuse
Nav Is to visit brother and his fam
ilv she had tooth extracted. Blood
poisoning followed and she was taken
to the Grouse Irving hospital, where
she died at J. o clock Saturday night.
Her death came as a shock to relatives
here, as news was received saturday
morning of improvement III her condl-
ton. and her mother. brother and sister,
Mrs. L. H. Stellman, Wilhelm E. Stell-
man and Miss Gladys Stellman, left.
by automobile to see her. When they
arrived Mr. Steiiman said she seemed
better than when he left her a week pre-
previous but about s 0 'elock a change
came for the worse.
Miss Stellman was the second of four
children of the late Louis IL. Stellman
and of Rose (Elliot) Stenman of West
Brattleboro and was born in that VII
lage March s, 1876. After her gradua-
| tion from Glenwood seminary she took
the training for a nurse at the Lynn,
Mass, hospital, and after her gradua
| tion from that institution she did pri-
vate nursing in Lynn and Brattleboro.
| For time she was night superintendent
at q hospital in Saratoga, \. Y, and
| for two wears was an efficient nurse in
the Ancon hospital, a government insti-
| tuition, in the Panama canal zone, where
she gained wide knowledge in her pro-
fession.
Returning from Panama, she engaged
| in public health work among the poor
several wears in South Boston, many
children following her about the streets
as she made her calls from house to
house. Going to Wallace, Idaho, she
was engaged two years as school nurse
in Wallace and kellogg resigning the
position in May. 1918, on account of the
/ illness of her father, who died Aug j.
She had accepted a position to promote
the work of the Idaho State Anti-Tuber-
culosis association, planning to enter
Il upon her duties after her father recov-
cred but after his death she gave up
the position 10 remain here with her
!, mother. For a time she was engaged
i in school nursing work and during the
influenza epidemic she answered an
emergency call to assist in combating
the disease in South Boston.
} On Jan ! Miss Stellman became su-
!, perintendent of the Mutual Aid asso-
) chiffon succeeding Miss Carolyn Fandel,
resigned, and since taking up the work
here she had declined an attractive
position in Boston, preferring to remain
at home with her mother
: Besides her mother Miss StellnRn
leaves two brothers, Wilhelm Il. Stell-
man, a member of the board of select
: men of the town and manager OF the
well-known L. H. Stellman & Son ma
chine shop, and Louis NJ Stellman, fac
tory engineer fer the H. II. Franklin
Mfg. Co of Syracuse, and a sister, Mis-.
: GLADYS Z. Stellman of West Brattleboro
bookkeeper in her brother S machine
shop.
: Miss Stellman was a member of q
! chapter of the Order of the Eastern
: Star in Idaho and of the First Congre
gational church in West Brattleboro
= The funeral will be held at 3.3e
: o clock tomorrow afternoon at the
? house, Rev. Arthur V. Woodwork Off
ciating, and the burial will take place
! in the family lot in the West Brattle
: boro cemetery.
! In the death of Miss Stellman Brat
: tleboro has lost valuable asset to the
public health work of the town, as she
was deeply interested in the work OF
the Mutual Aid association and eoulC
see no end to the good work that might
be accomplished by the organization fo1
: which she was working to secure larg
er corps of nurses and assistants Sh,
possessed far more than the ordinary
f ability as nurse and had wonderful
: faculty for caring for the sick. He
e ministrations were not confined solely
IS to her knowledge of the ways to refiev'
n pain, bat her presence in the sick room
r was q comfort to those for whom sh,
= cared. She was fond of children ant
was especially successful in her worl
in maternity cases. Through her wild
experience she had gained a. knowledg
of her profession surpassed by few, ant
made a wide circle of friends in what
-Eever field her work called her