FUNERAL SERVICES SATURDAY FOR BOY VICTIM OF STORM
Funeral services for Victor Ferree, 17 year -old Lykens boy, who froze to death in the mountains of Clarks Valley, were held from the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ferree in Lykens at two o’clock Saturday afternoon. Burial was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at that place.
Survivors are the parents, six brothers and four sisters: Emmett Ferree; Charles Ferree; Park Ferree; Miles Ferree; Harry Ferree; and Glenn Ferree; Barbara Verree; Dorothy Ferree; Ruby Ferree; and Thelma Ferree.
Ferree had accompanied Lloyd Stuppy and John Hoffman to the Clark’s Valley Camp on Saturday March 5th to spend the week end. With the storm’s approach Sunday, Stuppy and Hoffman said they were going home, but Ferree elected to remain at the cabin.
Hoffman’s heroic efforts were credited with saving Stuppy’s life on the trek home. At some places the young men had to wade snow hip deep and finally Stuppy became exhausted. Hoffman carried Stuppy to a point near the Lykens Reservoir where he abandoned him to crawl to the home of Lewis Snyder for help. Snyder brought Stuppy to his home where he was revived.
A searching party returned to the cabin Monday when Ferree failed to reach home and found the cold ash of the stove fire and his tracks leading away from the cabin. His tracks in the snow revealed his aimless wanderings. Searchers came upon his body beneath a tree on Peter’s Mountain. It was evident that he succumbed to exhaustion and became the victim of a numbing sleep.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death, 17 March 1932.
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