THE people

Gertrude Holst

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
MAIDEN NAME:
Holst
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
2088 Van Buren Street 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

William M. Holst
Mary Ward Holst
Allan Holst
Amy Holst

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
10
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
Sumner School
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:
Student

other information

CEMETERY:
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park IL
MORGUE:
Rolston
IDENTIFIED BY:

William Holst, Father

OTHER NOTES:

Mary A. Holst and her three children; Allan, age 13, Gertrude, age 10 and Amy aged 8 yrs perished in the Iroquois theater disaster. They were in the ill fated second balcony of the theater and met death trying to reach the fire escape.

 

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2;
McCurdy, D. B. (1904). Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror. Chicago: Memorial Publishing Company, accessed https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm, p 145;
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87692128/gertrude-holst

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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