Person:John Flechsenhar (2)

obituary

"MENINGITIS FATAL TO BLOOM YOUTH, 16      John Russell Flechsenhar, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Flechsenhar, died at 9 a. m. Sunday in the family home on the Baseline road south of Bloomville.  His death followed an illness of three weeks with meningitis.

     John is survived by his parents and by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Montz.  He was a member of St. John's Reformed church located on the Baseline road, and of the Christian Endeavor society.

     Funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the residence and at 2:30 p. m. in the church and will be conducted by the Rev. Harold Weber.  Interment will be in the adjacent cemetery."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ohio. Department of Health. Office of Vital Statistics. Certificates of death, 1908–present. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983–2005).
2. ↑ 9:00AM from a brain abscess; with chronic otites media contributory [Inflammation of the internal ear. It is known by pyrexia, and an excruciating and throbbing pain in the internal ear, that is sometimes attended with delirium. Another description is: Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the ear, characterized by excruciating pain; intolerable humming in the ear, with a discharge of mucus generally from the meatus externus or from the Eustachian tube]. His father is the informant, and reports the boys mother as "Eliz. Montz" born in Ohio, and that he the father was also born in Ohio
3. ↑ on tombstone along with his parents