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Mrs. Kitty Fletcher, 51, long time resident of Valera community in Coleman County was frightfully burned in her home Thursday night, July 2 and died in the Overall Hospital in Coleman, Saturday, July 4.  The accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock at night.  Mrs. Fletcher was lying on her bed, having retired when Dollie Sue, her 17-year-old daughter set up an ironing board near the bedside and proceeded to iron some clothes with a gasoline iron which developed trouble, but the young girl, anxious to finish her task continuing with the defective iron when suddenly the  bottom of the gas tank blew out throwing a stream of blazing gasoline all over the mother on the bed.  Flames shot ceiling high.  Merle Fletcher, another daughter, 14 years old, with great presence of mind threw a quilt over her mother and extinguished the flames.  Mrs. Fletcher, realizing that she was seriously burned and though suffering intensely got in her car and drove rapidly to the town of Valera, there she met some friends and said to them "I have burned myself almost to death."  Her words were prophetic.  She had visioned  the end that came two days later.  Cecil Horne and wife tenderly placed the stricken, suffering woman in their car and hurtled down the highway to the Overall Hospital where Mrs. Fletcher was given every modern treatment together with paliatives to ease her  suffering.  Saturday she passed away surrounded by those she loved and who loved her.  She was buried in Millerview's cemetery, 45 miles from Valera, beside her husband, Sloan Fletcher, with Rev. J. H. Grounds, Baptist minister officiating.  She  is survived by two brothers, Joe and Jim Collier; two sons, Albert and Charles Fletcher and five daughters, Mrs. Brimer, wife of the postmaster at Valera, Mrs. Gann, Dollie Sue, Merle and Winnie.  Pallbearers were Geo Pauley, Dewey Snider, H. Z. Parrott, H. H. Martin, Harold Brown, and Floyd Wilcox.  Flower bearers were Lois Wadner, Billie Jean Williams, Wilda Sue Williams, Cleta V. Wilson, Mrs. Ernest Clark, Mrs. Curtis McMeans, Mrs. Geo. Beck, Eugenia Pauley and Rosie Clamson.  The funeral was handled by the Funeral Home of the J. E. Stevens Company. 

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