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Overcome by gas in her home
« on: Tuesday 12 December 23 19:33 GMT (UK) »
Mrs. Geraldine Gowell, 23, of 41 Cherry Street, Lynn, yesterday was found in her home apparently overcome by gas in her home.  The Lynn rescue squad worked over her for a half hour before Dr. Francis Pirone pronounced her dead.  Mrs. Gowell was found by her parents with whom she had left her son earlier in the day.   [Boston Herald, Boston, MA, 14 March 1949]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126520808/geraldine-gowell

Can anyone find an additional, and hopefully more detailed, newspaper account of this death?  I am particularly interested in the name of the husband and of the child who, if my reckoning is correct, was a daughter, not a son.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 12 December 23 23:28 GMT (UK) »
does this fit with what you know?

1947
Gowell, Richard (Geraldine) appr jwlr h 41 Che--- [page cut off]
Albert L (Lillie M) service manager Sprague, Breed, Stevens & Newhall, home 51 Glenwood
Earl S (Christine A) serviceman Sprague, Breed, Stevens & Newhall, resides 51 Glenwood
Lawrence A (Edna M) GE Co (RW) h -- Michigan Avenue [page cut off]

1949 missing
1950 Lynn City Directory
Gowell, Geraldine, (Mrs Richd) died March 13, 1949
Albert L (Lillie M) oil burner installer h 51 Glenwood
Lawrence A (Edna M) home 48 Michigan Avenue

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a Richard Gowell married in 1943 in Lynn, Volume 75 page 280
it also seems to be listed in Swampscott volume 84, page 479
Those numbers came from the image. Ancestry says Index Volume 131 whatever that means

I didn't crosscheck the marriage to see if it was to a Geraldine

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There is a Richard Gowell born 3 September 1922 in Swampscott, son of William H Gowell and Beulah V Peary, acc. to his SS information.

The man born 3 September 1922 in Swampscott died in Washington State 18 August 1988 and has two daughters listed as survivors:
remarried, it seems.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS1-L85W

edit: I read the numbers for the next man on the list, a Robert L Gowell.

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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 12 December 23 23:52 GMT (UK) »
The Lynn and Swampscott references are on both sides for the marriage:

Massachusetts Marriage Index 1941-1945

Geraldine Hudson
Married 1943, Lynn Ref: Vol 55 pg 462 and Swampscott Ref Vol 85 Page 51

Richard Gowell
Married 1943, Lynn Ref: Vol 55 pg 462 and Swampscott Ref Vol 85 Page 51
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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 12 December 23 23:53 GMT (UK) »
The Lynn and Swampscott references are on both sides for the marriage:

Geraldine Hudson
Married 1943, Lynn Ref: Vol 55 pg 462 and Swampscott Ref Vol 85 Page 51

Richard Gowell
Married 1943, Lynn Ref: Vol 55 pg 462 and Swampscott Ref Vol 85 Page 51
that makes more sense. I must have found a different Richard Gowell, because my numbers didn't match up.


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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 12 December 23 23:55 GMT (UK) »
a tree at ancestry says that Geraldine and Richard's daughter Karen E, born 9 January 1946 in Salem, died 5 December 1998. no location. has a son, but they don't know the spouse or there wasn't one.

The tree says that the other daughter mentioned in familysearch's summary of Richard's obituary, Lisa Lee Gowell, is a half sister born 11 July 1949 in Tampa, Florida, so presumably the daughter of Richard's second wife Elaine Margaret Childs, who died 26 June 2006 in Seattle. Lisa is said to have died in 2002 in St Bernard's Parish, Louisiana.

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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 13 December 23 00:02 GMT (UK) »
I didn't find Richard or Karen in 1950 and the Hudsons didn't have Karen.

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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 13 December 23 01:01 GMT (UK) »
Karen is with her Uncle in 1950:

40 Center Street, Danvers, Essex, MA
Head: William H GOWELL Jr 29 b MA
Wife: Anne GOWELL 24, b NJ
Niece: Karren GOWELL 4, b MA

Cheers
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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 13 December 23 01:01 GMT (UK) »
The Daily Item
Lynn, Massachusetts
Mon, Mar 14, 1949
Page 2
Death: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-geraldine-gowell-death/136726323/

The Daily Item
Lynn, Massachusetts
Obit: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01sug/

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Re: Overcome by gas in her home
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 13 December 23 01:35 GMT (UK) »