Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1918

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Geisler Albert 181102 p1
Geisler Albert; Five Residents Claimed by Death   All Resided in Colony; Within forty-eight hours death has claimed
five residents of Patterson as the result of the influenza epidemic now prevalent here.  Of the victims Charles F. Pinnig, a
fire man employed at the Van Ormer pumping station of the Associated Oil Company was the first to succumb, passing
away at 11:25 Tuesday morning, his death was closely followed at 11:45 by that of Mrs. Albert Geisler, the wife of a
Colony rancher, who died at her home in the Colony. The next death was that of B. M. Bettincourt, a dairy rancher, who
abandoned the fight at the Emergency hospital on Wednesday night, but a few hours previous to the death of Mrs.
Manuel Silvera and her still born child. Pinning was a young man 28 years ago born in Kansas and a resident of
California for 13 years. He has been employed by the Van Ormer station for the past five years and is survived hy his
wife, Mrs. Margaret Pinning, three daughters, Ethel, Florence and Elizabeth Pinning, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Pinning, and a brother and a sister, Mrs. R. H. Lewis.  His body was taken to Fresno yesterday for interment. Mrs. Albert
Geisler was a native of Switzerland, a young woman of 27 years of age, who sacrificed her life in aiding the members of
her family.  In company with her husband and her brother-in-law, W. Imholz, she was stricken on Monday but insisted on
caring for the others of her family when ordered by the Doctor to remain in bed. Arrangements have been made to
conduct the funeral from Newman.  She is survived by her husband and two children. On Wednesday night Mrs. Manuel
Silvera, Jr., the wife of a Portuguese dairyman, who was especially badly stricken by the disease, gave birth to a still born
child and passed away shortly afterward at the hospital. Her death was closely followed by that of B. M. Bettincourt, a
dairy man who leaves a wife and ten children, all stricken with the epidemic. Several other inmates of the emergency
hospital are reported low at press time, but both Dr. A. M. Field and his volunteer assistants are lending every effort to
pull them through.