Indian Journal
1939-03-09 pg 1 col 5
Funeral Held for Local Youth
Odell Ayers, 18-Year-Old Farm Youth, Dies of Self-Inflicted Bullet Wound.
Funeral services for Odell Ayers, 18-year-old farm youth who killed himself Monday afternoon with a .22 caliber rifle, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Ayers home, with burial in the Eufaula cemetery. The Rev. J.H. Pigg, Muskogee Primitive Baptist preacher, officiated. Services were directed by the Kelley funeral home.
Ayers was found slumped in a door leading to the kitchen of his farm home with a bullet from the .22 caliber rifle lodged in his body. His heart was still beating when he was found by his father, Lee Ayers, but he died within a few minutes.
The father said the shot was not heard. He had been attending to chores and the youth's mother was visiting friends.
Ayers is a former Eufaula High school student and a CCC camp enrollee. He was in a Checotah CCC camp until last summer. Since then he had been working on the farm.
His death was termed a suicide by County Attorney F.A. Greene, Undersheriff Wallace Palmer and Police Chief Clarence Douglas. They had learned that he had been despondent.
Surviving are the parents: five brothers, Leonard of Muskogee, Bill of the home, J.D. Phillippine Islands, Ralph and Duane, both of the home; and two sisters, Mrs. Olen Brewer of McAlester and Wilda Dean Ayers of the home.
1939-03-09 pg 1 col 5
Funeral Held for Local Youth
Odell Ayers, 18-Year-Old Farm Youth, Dies of Self-Inflicted Bullet Wound.
Funeral services for Odell Ayers, 18-year-old farm youth who killed himself Monday afternoon with a .22 caliber rifle, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Ayers home, with burial in the Eufaula cemetery. The Rev. J.H. Pigg, Muskogee Primitive Baptist preacher, officiated. Services were directed by the Kelley funeral home.
Ayers was found slumped in a door leading to the kitchen of his farm home with a bullet from the .22 caliber rifle lodged in his body. His heart was still beating when he was found by his father, Lee Ayers, but he died within a few minutes.
The father said the shot was not heard. He had been attending to chores and the youth's mother was visiting friends.
Ayers is a former Eufaula High school student and a CCC camp enrollee. He was in a Checotah CCC camp until last summer. Since then he had been working on the farm.
His death was termed a suicide by County Attorney F.A. Greene, Undersheriff Wallace Palmer and Police Chief Clarence Douglas. They had learned that he had been despondent.
Surviving are the parents: five brothers, Leonard of Muskogee, Bill of the home, J.D. Phillippine Islands, Ralph and Duane, both of the home; and two sisters, Mrs. Olen Brewer of McAlester and Wilda Dean Ayers of the home.
Indian Journal
1939-03-09 pg 1 col 5
Funeral Held for Local Youth
Odell Ayers, 18-Year-Old Farm Youth, Dies of Self-Inflicted Bullet Wound.
Funeral services for Odell Ayers, 18-year-old farm youth who killed himself Monday afternoon with a .22 caliber rifle, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Ayers home, with burial in the Eufaula cemetery. The Rev. J.H. Pigg, Muskogee Primitive Baptist preacher, officiated. Services were directed by the Kelley funeral home.
Ayers was found slumped in a door leading to the kitchen of his farm home with a bullet from the .22 caliber rifle lodged in his body. His heart was still beating when he was found by his father, Lee Ayers, but he died within a few minutes.
The father said the shot was not heard. He had been attending to chores and the youth's mother was visiting friends.
Ayers is a former Eufaula High school student and a CCC camp enrollee. He was in a Checotah CCC camp until last summer. Since then he had been working on the farm.
His death was termed a suicide by County Attorney F.A. Greene, Undersheriff Wallace Palmer and Police Chief Clarence Douglas. They had learned that he had been despondent.
Surviving are the parents: five brothers, Leonard of Muskogee, Bill of the home, J.D. Phillippine Islands, Ralph and Duane, both of the home; and two sisters, Mrs. Olen Brewer of McAlester and Wilda Dean Ayers of the home.
1939-03-09 pg 1 col 5
Funeral Held for Local Youth
Odell Ayers, 18-Year-Old Farm Youth, Dies of Self-Inflicted Bullet Wound.
Funeral services for Odell Ayers, 18-year-old farm youth who killed himself Monday afternoon with a .22 caliber rifle, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Ayers home, with burial in the Eufaula cemetery. The Rev. J.H. Pigg, Muskogee Primitive Baptist preacher, officiated. Services were directed by the Kelley funeral home.
Ayers was found slumped in a door leading to the kitchen of his farm home with a bullet from the .22 caliber rifle lodged in his body. His heart was still beating when he was found by his father, Lee Ayers, but he died within a few minutes.
The father said the shot was not heard. He had been attending to chores and the youth's mother was visiting friends.
Ayers is a former Eufaula High school student and a CCC camp enrollee. He was in a Checotah CCC camp until last summer. Since then he had been working on the farm.
His death was termed a suicide by County Attorney F.A. Greene, Undersheriff Wallace Palmer and Police Chief Clarence Douglas. They had learned that he had been despondent.
Surviving are the parents: five brothers, Leonard of Muskogee, Bill of the home, J.D. Phillippine Islands, Ralph and Duane, both of the home; and two sisters, Mrs. Olen Brewer of McAlester and Wilda Dean Ayers of the home.
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