Evening star., 1951-09-19

ITraum 2102 Hildarose drive. Sill
Yer Spring, helped or carried
|many of the patients out. DR.
ITraum was physician for three Of
the homes patients and just hap"
pened to be there examining one
of them when the fire broke out
Mrs. Jolliffe returned to the
home and was in a state of shock
most of the day. Haywood N.
Saunders, who lives on Good Hope
road in Colesville, said Mrs. Wen.
dorf and Mrs. Jolliffe were more
like daughters to the people in
the home than directors.
The fire was discovered by two
nurses, Mrs. Margery Awkward
Iand Miss Viola Oliver. They were
in the kitchen, they said, and
Ismelled smoke coming from the
new wing. They ran down the
hall and saw smoke coming from
under a.cloSet door in a room oc-
cupied by three men patients.
Fire Alarm Sounded.
The room was empty at the
time, since the three men were in
the living room in the main part
OF the home. Mrs. Alta Riggs, a
cook at the home, ran to the liv-
ing room when she heard cries of
fire" and helped the three men
to safety.
Mrs. Wendorf identified the
three men in whose room the fire
started as Charles H. Feusahrens,
|78; William Ezra Wood, 80, and
Charles E. Taylor, rs. They came
through without injury.
Another of the many heroines
was Mrs. Sarah Higgins, a nurse.
She said she led nine patients
from her ward and then went up
stairs to help a patient down the
steps
A neighbor from across the road,
John Fielding Love, said he pulled
five people out of the house. One
was dead, he said.
Two flremen were hurt fighting
the blaze. Pvt. William McWil-
liamS, 10, of 8402 Greenwood
street. Takoma Park. a member of
the Takoma Park Fire Depart.
ment, and Pvt. Bernard Paul, 314
A street Sc. a Silver Spring Fire
Department member, were treated
for smoke inhalation at Washing
ton Sanitarium and released.
County police arrested a colored
of the home, who, they
said, was drunk and disorderly and
lampered f1remen's efforts. The
man was held in the Silver Spring
police station through the day.
police said, and questioned at
length last night. But they said
they could find no evidence that
the man had any connection with
the fire.
Mrs. Jolliffe has been operat-
ing the nursing home since 1948.
For eight years before that, she
operated nursing homes in Ia,
koma Park and Silver Spring.
When Mr.. Douglas died 10 years
ago, she went to live with her
daughter, Mrs. Lois D. Veasey. I'M
Atlanta, Ga, and later in Will
Del.
Her son. Bernard L. Douglas,
Sr., is an accountant with the
National Parks Service. \
Funeral services and burial will
be tomorrow in Wilmington. =
Mrs. Bashford had been living
at the home only six weeks. A
native of Providence, r. l., she
retired from Government service
in 1885 after 30 years service.
Grand Nephews Here.
Her survivors Include two grand
nephews. Ralph Moore Bashford
OF La Velle drive, Chevy Chase,
and William L. Berry of $500 Jones
Mill road, Chevy Chase.
Funeral services and burial will
be tomorrow in Providence, r. L.
Mrs. Gates had lived in the
home since it opened, and before
that she was in Mrs. Jolliffe's for
mer Silver Spring nursing home
for a year.
Besides her son and daughter
in Washington, Mrs. Gates is sur
vived by a brother, E. H. Butler
of Bonneville. Ark, and a sister,
Mrs. L. w. Hall of Broken Bow
Okla.
Funeral services and burial will
be Saturday in BooneSville.