Lookup request: Newspapers.com - Clara Palmer Dick death notice [closed]

Question

I'm seeking someone with access to Newspapers.com who could look up and extract the text from the death notice/obit of Clara Palmer Dick that can be found here: (Thank you!)

The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Page 27

Publication: 

The Pittsburgh Press i

Location: 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Issue Date: 

Sunday, April 28, 1946

Page: 

Page 27

Comments

It appears to require the Newspapers.com Extra subscription.

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There's also one for the husband, William Amzi Dick, under the same restriction/s.

(And I should have said "Newspapers.com Publisher Extra" required to view this page.)

Answer 1

Here you are, Jillaine.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109106817/the-pittsburgh-press/

Comments

Death certificate of sister (who supposedly died first) indicates a cerebral hemorrhage.

Reminder: the other sister's death certificate said coronary thrombosis.

The autopsy section on each of them is blank, which I assume means no autopsy was performed.

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In fact it seems there was a more detailed medical examination, revealing that both sisters died of carbon monoxide poisoning, probably from a faulty gas water heater. See

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109156043/the-pittsburgh-press/

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Yowzer... AND you rock, Jim. Thank you!

I would think that the death certificates would have been modified based on this.

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Thanks Jillaine :-) Yes, the causes of death on the certificates are odd. What are the dates on them? The deaths were on Thursday 25 April 1946, and the carbon monoxide report was on Saturday 27 April.

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The dates on both certificates was 4/26-- the day after they died but the day before the medical examination.

Weird.

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They should have had either amended certificates, or reissued ones.

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You'd think... but if they did issue revised certificates, ancestry.com did not digitize or index them.

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Would it be worthwhile contacting the issuing county just to ask?

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Good idea, Melanie.

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I figure it's only the cost of a phone call, or time spent typing an email.  If the answer is no, that ends it.  If the answer is yes, you can decide if you want to buy copies.  Either way, it's knowledge, and knowledge is (almost always) a good thing.