Antonia Anita NOWICKI

1 MAY 1896 - 5 JUN 1912

• BIRTH: 1 MAY 1896, South Bend, Indiana
• BURIAL: St Joseph Cemetery
• DEATH: 5 JUN 1912, South Bend, Indiana

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[N347] South Bend Tribune 6/5/1912

ANITA NOWICKA SIXTH VICTIM OF SMALLPOX

Girl dies in isolation hospital after short illness. Smallpox caused the sixth
death in South Bend since its introduction here
four months ago when Anita Nowicka, aged 16, of 1337 West Fisher street
died early today in the isolation hospital. Miss Nowicka was taken to the
institution on May 25. She grew gradually worse and last Friday it was
thought she could not live more than a few hours. Her case was regarded
as the worst which has ever been treated at the institution. Authorities are
puzzled as to the manner in which Miss Nowicka con-
tracted the disease. She was taken suddenly ill and attending physicians
pronounced the case smallpox. She was at once removed to the hospital.
Miss Nowicka was born in South Bend on May 1, 1896, and had resided
here all her life. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Nowicka. Short funeral services will be held this evening, and tonight
burial will take place in St. Josephs Polish cemetery.
The first death due to smallpox was that of Mrs. Theodore Huffman, wife
of the custodian of the isolation hospital. Since that time, Mrs. Joseph
Sears, her brother-in-law, Racy Rogers, Homer Towne and his son, Ross
Towne, have succumbed to the disease. The first case was brought here
by the son of Peter DeVose, of Mishawaka, a Belgium immigrant.