Luella Edna Holzworth

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• Interesting: died in fire
• Misfortune: killed in fire
• Name: Luella Edna Beisel
• Residence: 32 Water St., Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-55635
• Residence: 1911, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Dies in Delhi Fire

Mrs. Norman Beisel on Visit
Trapped in Basement of Home

DELHI - The charred body of Mrs. Norman Beisel, 65, of 32 Water St., Elmira, was recovered late last night from embers of a $30,000 frame farm house which burned to the ground two miles south of here.

The 11 persons in the house were candling eggs in the basement when flames of unknown origin broke out in the upper storey and were soon roaring through the main floor.

All but Mrs. Beisel escaped in time. Handbags were forgotten in the scramble to get out.

In the building with Mrs. Beisel were Mrs. David Tisdale, two sisters, a friend, Mrs. Wilfred Pollard of Lynedoch, and six children.

Mr. Tisdale was not on his farm at the time and Mrs. Pollard attempted to use the telephone, fast being engulfed in flames, but she was driven back with burns.

She ran to the near-by farm home of Berton Axford and placed an alarm to the Delhi fire department, but too late to save anything in the house

CHOKED BY SMOKE

Mr. Axford ran to the Tisdale home and plunged into the smoke-filled basement through an outside door hoping to save the trapped Mrs. Beisel, but he was forced back outside by the choking smoke.
Not familiar with the hose, Mrs. Beisel did not know of the outside door.
Firemen from Delhi fought the blaze until 8 p.m.
Mrs. Beisel had spent two weeks holidays at Turkey Point with a friend, Mrs. Arthur Arnum of St. Thomas, her daughter-in-law's grandmother. She had planned to return home Sunday but was persuaded to remain for a few more days.
Her son Kenneth, of Fort Erie was bringing her home when they stopped for a visit at the Tisdale home.

FUNERAL SUNDAY

Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Holzworth, Mrs. Beisel was born Jan. 6, 1888. She was a member of St. James's Lutheran Church and of the Ladies Aid Society.
Surviving are three sons, Vernon, Elmira; Lloyd, Preston, and Kenneth, Fort Erie; four grandchildren, on sister Mrs. Rose Beisel, Elmira, and two brothers, Percy Holzworth, Calgary, ad Emerson, Fort Erie.
The funeral will be held Sunday at 3 o'clock at St. James's Church. Interment will be I the Elmira cemetery. Rev. H.W. Baetz will conduct the services. The body will rest at the Dreisinger Funeral Parlor until 1 p.m. Sunday when removal will be made to the church.

Luella — Norman P. Beisel. Norman (son of Louis Beisel and Adeline Elizabeth Wilhelmina Eix) was born 4 Jul 1880, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Feb 1979, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115693P

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106718
• Misfortune: 1960; killed in fall

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Lloyd G. Beisel, 42, Bridgeport died Sunday at Victoria Hospital, London, Ont., of injuries received when he fell from a scaffold last Thursday in Waterloo.

Mr. Beisel was working on the Snyders' Ltd., new factory and was handling a plank to a fellow workman in the ground when he fell, breaking his neck and two wrists.

He had been an employee of Lavern Asmussen Ltd., contractor, for more than a year.

Born Nov. 23, 1917, in Elmira, he was a son of Norman Beisel and the late Luella Holzworth.

He married the former Rita Thomas Aug. 27, 1950, in Kitchener and was a former member of St. James' Lutheran Church, Elmira.

Surviving are five sons, Donald, Paul, David, Douglas and Michael and two daughters, Elizabeth and Carol at home and a brother, Kenneth of Waterford.

He was also predeceased by a brother Vernon.

The body was at the Dreisinger Funeral Parlor, Elmira, where Rev. H. W. Baetz conducted the funeral Tuesday. Burial was in Elmira Cemetery.

Lloyd married Rita Thomas 27 Aug 1950, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rita was born Abt 1920. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106670
• Residence: 1979, Simcoe, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

Kenneth — Suzanne DeCorte. Suzanne was born 1924; died 2006; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]