Kidney's death was attributed to third degree burns of the back and other burns around the mouth.
The victim, alone in his farm home when the fire started, broke away from firemen and rushed back into the dwelling in the belief that one of the children was on the second floor.
However, his wife and the children had escaped the flames believed to have been ignited by an overheated stove.
Firemen rushed into the house and pulled out, Kidney, who was taken by ambulance to Presque Isle.
The family lost all it's possessions in the blaze which gutted the interior of the house with a loss estimated by Fire Chief V. M. Barker at about $5,000.
The victim was born at Duntown February 19, 1917, the son of James and Lucy (Shaw) Kidney, and had lived in Washburn the greater part of his life.
Besides his parents he is survived by his widow Mrs. Marjorie (Brown) Kidney, a son Kenneth,
four daughters, Judy, Lucy, Sally and Katherine, all of Washburn; four brothers, Fred of Hartford,
Conn., Marshall of Rockville, Conn., Milford of Yarmouth and Neal Kidney of Lexington, Mass.,
five sisters, Mrs. Hazel Collins of Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Eva Hornik of Greenwich, R. I., Mrs. Charlotte Kelley of Portsmouth, N. H., Mrs. Mary Dempsey of Presque Isle and Mrs. Helen Umphrey of Fort Kent.
Friends may call at the Graves Funeral Home, Presque Isle, Friday evening from 6 to 9 o'clock
Funeral services will be held at the funeral home Saturday at 1 o'clock. The Rev. George Budd, pastor, will officiate.
Interment will be in Riverside cemetery, Washburn. in the spring.