Harold and Emily Dyrenforth, parents
Helen Dyrenforth, sister
Alma Erland, family servant
Harold Dyrenforth, cousin
Ruth and Helen Dyrenforth lived at were accompanied to the theater by the family's Swedish servant, Alma Josephina Erland. The Dyrenforths lived at 832 Judson, Evanston and Alma in an apartment at 805 Dempster, Evanston above the North Shore Creamer.
The evening of the Iroquois fire, Ruth and Helen's cousin, thirty-one-year-old Arthur Dyrenforth (1871–1920), found Ruth's body at Rolston's funeral home and took her to her parent's home. A police officer, Albert F. Sinsrott, found Helen's body on a stairwell outside the auditorium, the second of only two victim identifications known to have been made at the theater. Harry made the official identification.
Ruth and Helen were buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999
Name Ruth Dyrenforth
Sex Female
Age 14
Residence Place So. Evanston
Address 832 Hudson Ave
Death Date 30 Dec 1903
Death Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Death Place (Original) Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Birth Year (Estimated) 1889
Birthplace America
Marital Status Single
Occupation School Girl
Race White
Ethnicity American
Event Type Death
Event Place Note Iroquois Theatre
Cemetery Rose Hill
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2 & 5
The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) 02 Jan 1904, Sat, page 3
Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134855652/ruth-l-dyrenforth
