This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAUMGARTNER, CHRISTOFFERSON, GERARD, HAGERMAN, HAMILTON, KINNEY, KOENECKE, PAYNE, SEELY Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XEC.2ACE/1630 Message Board Post: From the Adams County Times, Friday Dec. 18, 1942, Page 1 (not the complete obit due to copyright restrictions) Burns Fatal to Little Tot on Friday Evening --Clothes Ignited by Flaming Comb as Mother is Outside-- Little Carol Joann Christofferson was tenderly laid to rest at Mt. Repose cemetery Sunday afternoon after a tragic close to her short life. Funeral services were held at Trinity Lutheran church at Adams Sunday with the Rev. Frank Berg of Wittenberg officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Koenecke sang "He Knows" and "God's Tomorrow." Carol Joann was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Christofferson who live in the town of Preston. She was born there on May 6, 1941 and passed away at the Portage hospital on Dec. 11. Her death was caused by a flaming celluloid comb which ignited her clothing. At the time of the accident the mother had stepped out to the barn when the baby's brother, William Charles, came running to tell her Carol was on fire. The frightened mother ran to the house and threw a coat around the baby to smother the flames but her swaeater, neck and hair were badly burned. They called a doctor who rushed her to the Portage hospital but apparently the flames had damaged the baby's lungs and she passed away that night. She is survived by her sorrowing parents and one brother. Those from away who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baumgartner and family of Chicago; Mrs. Emil Christofferson and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kinney of Onalaska, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hagerman and Dean of Windom, Minnesota; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Payne and family, and Mrs. Winn Gerard of Coloma, and Mrs. Charles Seely of La Crosse.