Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1929

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Dolling Jack 290308 p1
Oil Burns Are Fatal; Explosion of Stove Causes Fatal Injury to Ranch Worker; Transformed into a living torch by the
explosion of an oil stove he had attempted to fill while it was burning, Jack Dolling, laborer at the Sunflower Ranch,
incurred burns which proved fatal Monday afternoon following four days of suffering. Dolling was engaged in preparing
breakfast in his cabin on the ranch west of Patterson when the mishap occurred.  He was alone at the time although others
in the ranch house nearby heard him singing and remarked that he seemed happy that morning. The next they knew was
when he ran out of the cabin screaming and rolled on the ground in an attempt to beat out the flames.  Other workmen
rushed to his rescue but difficulty was experienced in beating out the blaze and he was terribly burned before they were
extinguished.  The cabin was destroyed also. George Covell, owner of the ranch, who was there, rushed Dolling to the
county hospital at Modesto, but little could be done for him and he passed away Monday. Dolling has been employed
around here at intervals for several years past, but little was know of him otherwise.  He was 45 years of age.