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Mary Elizabeth Fogas

Mary Elizabeth Fogas

Female 1895 - 1921  (25 years)

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  • Name Mary Elizabeth Fogas 
    Birth 5 May 1895  Owensville, Gibson County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Residence 1916  1210 Union Street, Indianapolis, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  North Bradley Avenue, Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 28 Nov 1920  301 W Bradley, Indianapolis, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 20 Jan 1921  Indianapolis, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age: 26y 
    Cause: blood poisoning 
    Burial 24 Jan 1921  Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18642  All
    Last Modified 20 Apr 2014 

    Father John Fogas,   b. May 1867, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Ida L. Lichtenberger,   b. Jan 1872, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F10479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Otto Frederick Wurm,   b. 31 May 1891, Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1939, Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 3 Jul 1919  Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Maryjane Wurm,   b. 2 Jan 1921, Indianapolis, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2009 (Age 87 years)
    Family ID F5068  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2013 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 5 May 1895 - Owensville, Gibson County, Indiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1916 - 1210 Union Street, Indianapolis, Indiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 3 Jul 1919 - Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1920 - North Bradley Avenue, Indianapolis Ward 9, Marion County, Indiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 28 Nov 1920 - 301 W Bradley, Indianapolis, Indiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Age: 26y,Cause: blood poisoning - 20 Jan 1921 - Indianapolis, Indiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 24 Jan 1921 - Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
    Chase, Fogas and Wurm    		Chase, Fogas and Wurm
    From left to right are Dr. Clyde Chase, Bonnie Fogas, Mary Fogas and Otto Wurm.
    Mary Fogas and Otto Wurm, with Mary's younger sisters Dorothy (Hunger) and Marjorie (Gibson)    		Mary Fogas and Otto Wurm, with Mary's younger sisters Dorothy (Hunger) and Marjorie (Gibson)
    Mary Fogas    		Mary Fogas
    Probably taken in Indianapolis before she left for Alabama.
    Name/place card and holiday greeting card, probably homemade by Mary Fogas    		Name/place card and holiday greeting card, probably homemade by Mary Fogas
    Camp McClellan, Alabama December 25, 1918
    Farewell Washington's Birthday Gathering of the Welfare Organizations, Camp McClellan, Alabama - February 21, 1919     		Farewell Washington's Birthday Gathering of the Welfare Organizations, Camp McClellan, Alabama - February 21, 1919
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    Note: during the early 20th Century, Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays were separate holidays, not the all inclusive "President's Day" of the early 21st Century.
    Farewell Washington's Birthday Gathering of the Welfare Organizations, Camp McClellan, Alabama - February 21, 1919     		Farewell Washington's Birthday Gathering of the Welfare Organizations, Camp McClellan, Alabama - February 21, 1919
    2 of 2
    Local Young Woman Heeds U.S. Call for Nurses to Serve During War - Indianapolis Star newspaper, 1918    		Local Young Woman Heeds U.S. Call for Nurses to Serve During War - Indianapolis Star newspaper, 1918
    Miss Mary Fogas - The student nurse reserve is calling many Indianapolis young woman to service. Miss Mary Fogas will go this week to Camp McClellan, Ala., as a student nurse at the camp hospital, army school of nursing, for the term of the war.
    Liberty War Scrap Book    		Liberty War Scrap Book
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    Liberty War Scrap Book    		Liberty War Scrap Book
    2 of 2
    Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, winter 1918    		Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, winter 1918
    Mary Fogas far right
    Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, year unknown    		Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, year unknown
    Mary Fogas on left, second from top
    Camp McClellan AL, year unknown    		Camp McClellan AL, year unknown
    Mary Fogas in middle

  • Notes 
    • 22 Apr, 1913 Indianapolis Star newspaper
      "School Notes - MANUAL - The class of January 1914 of Manual organized for the term yesterday afternoon. Sydnor Gilbreath was elected president of the class over four other candidates. The other candidates were Dan Glossbrenner, Janes Dehority, Armin Fischer and Louis Berner. Mary Fogas was elected vice president of the class over Elsie Faries. Georgia Heckman received the office of secretary and Dan Glossbrenner was elected treasurer. A committee on colors was appointed by the president. It is composed of Elsie Faries, chairman; Naomi Coffey and Leon Teagarten. The constitution committee, composed of Gardner Udel and Louis Berner, submitted the constituion, which was accepted by the class."

      14 Feb, 1915 Indianapolis Star newspaper
      "Miss Elsa Fairies, a bride of next month, was the honor guest at a valentine party and shower given by the members of the Iota Kappa Tau Sorority at the home of Miss Beulah Vane last evening. The decorations were in scarlet sage and red and white cupids. The guest were Miss Nellie Fogas, Miss Lillian Hunter, Helen Monteith, Miss Beulah Vane, Miss Josephine Harbinsoh, Miss Bessie Sayre, Miss Mary Fogas, Roy Baker, Otto Wurm, Fred Dunlap, Clifton Meloy, Byron Bowers, Ferris Young, Louis Saladin and William McCosh."

      Oct, 1918 Indianapolis Star newspaper
      "LOCAL YOUNG WOMAN HEEDS U.S. CALL FOR NURSES TO SERVE DURING WAR
      Miss Mary Fogas - The student nurse reserve is calling many Indianapolis young women to service. Miss Mary Fogas will go to Camp McClellan, Ala., as a student nurse at the camp hospital, army school of nursing, for the term of the war."


    Died:
    • 23 Jan, 1921 Indianapolis Star newspaper
      ?WURM-Mary E (nee Fogas) beloved wife of Otto Wurm, daughter of Mr and Mrs JT Fogas and sister of Mrs Dr Clyde H Chase of Detroit Mich. And the Misses Dorothy and Marjorie Fogas, passed away Thursday, Jan 20 at 7 p.m., age 35 years. Funeral service at the residence of her parents, 3334 College ave, Monday, Jan 24 at 2 p.m. Burial Crown Hill cemetery. Friends invited.?

      23 Jan, 1921 Indianapolis Star newspaper
      "FULL MILITARY FUNERAL IN HONOR OF ARMY NURSE

      Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wurm - The first full military funeral for a woman in Indianapolis was given today to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wurm, 301 North Bradley Street, by the St. Mihiel-Leer Post of the American Legion. Mrs. Wurm, who died Thursday, was a member of the Post, and served in the United States army as nurse. She enlisted October 12, 1918, serving at Camp McClellan, Ala., until her discharge in March 1919. Funeral services were held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. JT Fogas, 3334 College Avenue, at 2 o'clock.

      Officers of the post served as pallbearers. The three-volley salute was given at the grave by a firing squad. Members of the Delta Delta Rho Sorority, of which Mrs. Wurm was a member, were honorary pallbearers. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery."

      1921 Mt Vernon IN newspaper (?)
      "FULL MILITARY FUNERAL IS GIVEN ARMY NURSE American legion at Indianapolis Honors Mrs. Otto F. Wurm, Well Known Here

      Mrs. Otto F. Wurm of Indianapolis, died Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock at a sanitarium in that city, her death being due to blood poisoning following childbirth.

      Mrs. Wurm was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "Dory" Fogas, former residents of this city, and the untied efforts of six of the best specialists in that city and

      During the World war, while yet single, Mrs. Wurm volunteered her services, free of charge, as a nurse and was sent to Camp McClellan, Alabama, where she served for over six months, and shortly upon her return home was united in marriage to Otto F. Wurm, a prescription druggist who for years had been employed in the drug store owned by her father. She was an accomplished young lady, of a sweet and jovial disposition, and well known in this city where she frequently visited her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lichtenberger and other relatives.

      The deceased was 26 years of age, and besides her husband and three weeks' old babe is survived by her parents, three sisters and a large circle of relatives who have the heartfelt sympathy of their friends here in their sad and sudden bereavement.

      The funeral occurred from the home of her parents on College avenue, Monday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, the service being in charge of Rev. Burbank of Richmond, Ind., an old friend of the family, and to show the esteem in which the deceased was held by her large circle of friends, three sides of the room in which the remains reposed were filled from floor to ceiling with ninety-four floral emblem and wreathes, of which no two were alike. Lying by her side in the casket was a miniature cradle made of flowers with the inscription, "From Baby to Mother," a floral offering sent to the home by her uncle, Frank Lichtenberger. The funeral cortege was no doubt one of the largest that ever accompanied the remains of a young mother to the cemetery, there being over sixty autos in the procession.

      Elwood Lichtenberger and John C. Leffel of this city, and Carl Fehl and Charles Lichtenberger of Evansville, attended the funeral.

    Buried:
    • Mary E Wurm (Otto's first wife) is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana - plot Sec 59 Lot 124. She's buried next to her parents: Ida and John Fogas. Note there is a flaw in the grave database; her name is misspelled as "Amry E Wurm" instead of the correct 'Mary E Wurm'.



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