The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-06-19
Four Deaths
Past Week
Buried Here
Aug. Vessel, A. Oldham
Grace Volkman, Harry
Huey Passed Away
August Vessel

August Vessel, who resided in
the community 81 miles east of
this city since 1917, passed away
at his farm home Sunday at 1880
| after a lingering illness. His age
at death was "a years.
Mr.. Vessel was born in Germany
on April 80, 1887, and at the age
of four years came to the United
States with his parents. He grew
to manhood in the Melrose COM
munity. ....
On September Z, 1915, he was
united in marriage to Mary Aust
ing, and they resided in Melrose
for a period of two years. Follow
| ing that they purchased a farm
31a miles east of Sank Centre
where they have resided since.
Surviving are his bereaved wife,
| and ten children. The children
are: Bertha, Cyril, Gregor, Hide
garde, Norbert, Adelbert, Robert,
Helen and Janette, at home, and
Valeria, of Breckenridge. Also sur
viving are two brothers, Fred and
Henry Vessel, and two sisters.
Mrs. Mary Soenneker and Mrs.
Jos. Niehause, ST., all Of Melrose.
Funeral services were conducted
this Thursday morning at $3.50
! o'clock, with q Solemn Requiem
Mass at st. Paul's Church in this
city. Officiating were Msgr. A,
Plachta and Rev. Bolte, Of this
city, and the Rey. Henry Soennek-
er, a nephew of the deceased. In.
terment was made in st. Paups
cemetery. The pallbearers and
crossbearer were seven nephews OF
Mr.. Vessel.
Mr.. Vessel enjoyed his occupa'
ton as farmer and devoted his
time to the successful conduct Of
his business. He was good neigh
Dor and fffesss> and esteemed BY
all who knew him.
Mrs. Elmer VOlkman
Mrs. Elmer Volkman, of Clinton
who became the iron lung moth
err" giving birth to her second chile
in 1910, died near midnight Satur'
day at the University hospital
Minneapolis, after twenty months
confinement paralyzed from the
neck down from infantile paraly
| sis.
I Mrs. Volkman, the former Grace
Clark, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Clark, Of this community, dice
in the iron lung that had sustained
her life since September 16, 1889
Her mother was with her wher
death came. Death resulted from
complications arising from hel
condition.
It was in September, 1889, wher
infantile paralysis was striking
throughout the county, that Mrs
Volkman was stricken. Moved Il
the University hospital, she wa.
encased in the iron lung where
for weeks it was necessary she b.
confined. The paralysis had STRUCK
her voluntary muscles.
It was weeks before the patient
discovered she could breathe un
aided by the apparatus. It hap
! pened when the fuses burned ou
and hospital attendants moved hel
hurriedly to another room. Fol
more than the past year, Mrs
Volkman had been able to spent
periods outside Of the artificial
lung.
In February, 1910, her case en-
tered the annals of medical history
when on the thirteenth doctors
prepared with tons Of apparatu:
and additional small lung" unit.
since she must be removed from
the larger one, delivered her daugh
ter, June Carol. June Carol, today
living here with her grandparents
was pronounced Immediately nor
NAL, healthy baby, free from the
disease that had stricken the moth.
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