Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Herald Telephone, April 5, 1939, p. 1+.
(Combined obit for father and son, only information regarding Owen, the son, is shown here.)
FATHER DEAD, VET TAKES OWN LIFE
Oscar Owings, 43, Heartbroken over Parent's Passing, Sets Fire to Home and Then Kills Self with Shotgun
Heartbroken over the death of his father who expired at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, physically broken because of his service as a soldier in France during the World War, and worried over domestic troubles that had resulted in estrangement from his wife and children, Oscar Luther Owings, age 43, of R. R. 3, went to his home, locked himself alone inside the dwelling, and after setting the house on fire, took his shotgun and killed himself.
The suicide occurred two hours after the death of Thomas J. Owings, age 71 (difficult to read), father of the suicide. The father died of chronic heart disability at his home on Sanders Route Four.
Oscar Owings, who returned from a veterans' hospital at Danville a few months ago became involved in a minor dispute with members of his family concerning funeral arrangements for his father. "I guess my opinion is not wanted around here." He declared, and left.
"I'm afraid he'll go home and kill himself," Mrs. Amanda Owings, aged mother of the suicide is quoted as saying, as she watched her son depart, never to see him alive again.
Deputy sheriffs received a call from the Mt. Ebal neighborhood at 4:30 (difficult to read) Tuesday afternoon from neighbors of Oscar Owings. The frantic report was that the Owings home was on fire and that there was a man inside the place lying on the floor.
The officers drove to the scene at top speed and found all of the doors of the Owings home locked. They forced an entrance to the place where Owings had been living with an uncle since his estrangement from his family and found Owings lying on the floor by his 16 gauge shotgun.
Owings, clad only in his underwear and shoes, was lying on his back. The charge from the shotgun had torn through Owings' bare breast just above the heart ripping away his left lung. The shot apparently had been fired while Owings pressed the muzzle of the single-barreled gun against his body.
Realizing at a glance that they could do nothing for Owings, the officers concentrated their immediate efforts on extinguishing the flames that threatened to destroy the house. Before killing himself, Owings had set fire to each of the four rooms of the dwelling. He had kindled a pile of stove wood in the kitchen; had set fire to a bed in another room; a davenport in another room, and in the fourth room had ignited a pile of rags.
One of the deputies returned to Bloomington and summoned Dr. Hugh S. Ramsey, county coroner, who returned a verdict of suicide and ordered the death gun turned over to a brother of the deceased.
Deputies express the belief that kerosene had been used to start the four fires in the house. The fires had been held in check by neighbors who threw buckets of water on the flames and the house was saved.
The Allen Funeral Home, that only three hours previously had dispatched a funeral coach for the body of Thomas Owings, father of the suicide, was called to bring the body of the younger Owings to Bloomington and to arrange funeral plans.
Oscar Luther Owings is survived by the mother, the widow, Mrs. Darrell Owings, three daughters, Beulah, Bernice and Sarah Sue; two sons, Burtle and Boyd; three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Bartlett and Mrs. Oren Walters, both of Monroe County, and Mrs. Landen Martin of Indianapolis. Also surviving is a brother, Frank Owings, of this county.
The deceased was a member of the V. F. W. and the D. A. V. Funeral services will be held this Friday forenoon at 10:30 at the Mt. Ebal Church under the direction of the Rev. John Hays. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Six members of the V. F. W. will serve as pallbearers and the V. F. W. bugle and firing squad will conduct special burial rites.
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Early Death Records Database, www.rootsweb.com: Name: Owings, Oscar Luther / Date: 4 Apr 1939 / Age: 43 / Book/Page/Record: (Blank) / County: Monroe / State: IN / Cemetery: Mt Ebal / More Info: (Blank)
(Combined obit for father and son, only information regarding Owen, the son, is shown here.)
FATHER DEAD, VET TAKES OWN LIFE
Oscar Owings, 43, Heartbroken over Parent's Passing, Sets Fire to Home and Then Kills Self with Shotgun
Heartbroken over the death of his father who expired at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, physically broken because of his service as a soldier in France during the World War, and worried over domestic troubles that had resulted in estrangement from his wife and children, Oscar Luther Owings, age 43, of R. R. 3, went to his home, locked himself alone inside the dwelling, and after setting the house on fire, took his shotgun and killed himself.
The suicide occurred two hours after the death of Thomas J. Owings, age 71 (difficult to read), father of the suicide. The father died of chronic heart disability at his home on Sanders Route Four.
Oscar Owings, who returned from a veterans' hospital at Danville a few months ago became involved in a minor dispute with members of his family concerning funeral arrangements for his father. "I guess my opinion is not wanted around here." He declared, and left.
"I'm afraid he'll go home and kill himself," Mrs. Amanda Owings, aged mother of the suicide is quoted as saying, as she watched her son depart, never to see him alive again.
Deputy sheriffs received a call from the Mt. Ebal neighborhood at 4:30 (difficult to read) Tuesday afternoon from neighbors of Oscar Owings. The frantic report was that the Owings home was on fire and that there was a man inside the place lying on the floor.
The officers drove to the scene at top speed and found all of the doors of the Owings home locked. They forced an entrance to the place where Owings had been living with an uncle since his estrangement from his family and found Owings lying on the floor by his 16 gauge shotgun.
Owings, clad only in his underwear and shoes, was lying on his back. The charge from the shotgun had torn through Owings' bare breast just above the heart ripping away his left lung. The shot apparently had been fired while Owings pressed the muzzle of the single-barreled gun against his body.
Realizing at a glance that they could do nothing for Owings, the officers concentrated their immediate efforts on extinguishing the flames that threatened to destroy the house. Before killing himself, Owings had set fire to each of the four rooms of the dwelling. He had kindled a pile of stove wood in the kitchen; had set fire to a bed in another room; a davenport in another room, and in the fourth room had ignited a pile of rags.
One of the deputies returned to Bloomington and summoned Dr. Hugh S. Ramsey, county coroner, who returned a verdict of suicide and ordered the death gun turned over to a brother of the deceased.
Deputies express the belief that kerosene had been used to start the four fires in the house. The fires had been held in check by neighbors who threw buckets of water on the flames and the house was saved.
The Allen Funeral Home, that only three hours previously had dispatched a funeral coach for the body of Thomas Owings, father of the suicide, was called to bring the body of the younger Owings to Bloomington and to arrange funeral plans.
Oscar Luther Owings is survived by the mother, the widow, Mrs. Darrell Owings, three daughters, Beulah, Bernice and Sarah Sue; two sons, Burtle and Boyd; three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Bartlett and Mrs. Oren Walters, both of Monroe County, and Mrs. Landen Martin of Indianapolis. Also surviving is a brother, Frank Owings, of this county.
The deceased was a member of the V. F. W. and the D. A. V. Funeral services will be held this Friday forenoon at 10:30 at the Mt. Ebal Church under the direction of the Rev. John Hays. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Six members of the V. F. W. will serve as pallbearers and the V. F. W. bugle and firing squad will conduct special burial rites.
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Early Death Records Database, www.rootsweb.com: Name: Owings, Oscar Luther / Date: 4 Apr 1939 / Age: 43 / Book/Page/Record: (Blank) / County: Monroe / State: IN / Cemetery: Mt Ebal / More Info: (Blank)
Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Herald Telephone, April 5, 1939, p. 1+.
(Combined obit for father and son, only information regarding Owen, the son, is shown here.)
FATHER DEAD, VET TAKES OWN LIFE
Oscar Owings, 43, Heartbroken over Parent's Passing, Sets Fire to Home and Then Kills Self with Shotgun
Heartbroken over the death of his father who expired at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, physically broken because of his service as a soldier in France during the World War, and worried over domestic troubles that had resulted in estrangement from his wife and children, Oscar Luther Owings, age 43, of R. R. 3, went to his home, locked himself alone inside the dwelling, and after setting the house on fire, took his shotgun and killed himself.
The suicide occurred two hours after the death of Thomas J. Owings, age 71 (difficult to read), father of the suicide. The father died of chronic heart disability at his home on Sanders Route Four.
Oscar Owings, who returned from a veterans' hospital at Danville a few months ago became involved in a minor dispute with members of his family concerning funeral arrangements for his father. "I guess my opinion is not wanted around here." He declared, and left.
"I'm afraid he'll go home and kill himself," Mrs. Amanda Owings, aged mother of the suicide is quoted as saying, as she watched her son depart, never to see him alive again.
Deputy sheriffs received a call from the Mt. Ebal neighborhood at 4:30 (difficult to read) Tuesday afternoon from neighbors of Oscar Owings. The frantic report was that the Owings home was on fire and that there was a man inside the place lying on the floor.
The officers drove to the scene at top speed and found all of the doors of the Owings home locked. They forced an entrance to the place where Owings had been living with an uncle since his estrangement from his family and found Owings lying on the floor by his 16 gauge shotgun.
Owings, clad only in his underwear and shoes, was lying on his back. The charge from the shotgun had torn through Owings' bare breast just above the heart ripping away his left lung. The shot apparently had been fired while Owings pressed the muzzle of the single-barreled gun against his body.
Realizing at a glance that they could do nothing for Owings, the officers concentrated their immediate efforts on extinguishing the flames that threatened to destroy the house. Before killing himself, Owings had set fire to each of the four rooms of the dwelling. He had kindled a pile of stove wood in the kitchen; had set fire to a bed in another room; a davenport in another room, and in the fourth room had ignited a pile of rags.
One of the deputies returned to Bloomington and summoned Dr. Hugh S. Ramsey, county coroner, who returned a verdict of suicide and ordered the death gun turned over to a brother of the deceased.
Deputies express the belief that kerosene had been used to start the four fires in the house. The fires had been held in check by neighbors who threw buckets of water on the flames and the house was saved.
The Allen Funeral Home, that only three hours previously had dispatched a funeral coach for the body of Thomas Owings, father of the suicide, was called to bring the body of the younger Owings to Bloomington and to arrange funeral plans.
Oscar Luther Owings is survived by the mother, the widow, Mrs. Darrell Owings, three daughters, Beulah, Bernice and Sarah Sue; two sons, Burtle and Boyd; three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Bartlett and Mrs. Oren Walters, both of Monroe County, and Mrs. Landen Martin of Indianapolis. Also surviving is a brother, Frank Owings, of this county.
The deceased was a member of the V. F. W. and the D. A. V. Funeral services will be held this Friday forenoon at 10:30 at the Mt. Ebal Church under the direction of the Rev. John Hays. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Six members of the V. F. W. will serve as pallbearers and the V. F. W. bugle and firing squad will conduct special burial rites.
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Early Death Records Database, www.rootsweb.com: Name: Owings, Oscar Luther / Date: 4 Apr 1939 / Age: 43 / Book/Page/Record: (Blank) / County: Monroe / State: IN / Cemetery: Mt Ebal / More Info: (Blank)
(Combined obit for father and son, only information regarding Owen, the son, is shown here.)
FATHER DEAD, VET TAKES OWN LIFE
Oscar Owings, 43, Heartbroken over Parent's Passing, Sets Fire to Home and Then Kills Self with Shotgun
Heartbroken over the death of his father who expired at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, physically broken because of his service as a soldier in France during the World War, and worried over domestic troubles that had resulted in estrangement from his wife and children, Oscar Luther Owings, age 43, of R. R. 3, went to his home, locked himself alone inside the dwelling, and after setting the house on fire, took his shotgun and killed himself.
The suicide occurred two hours after the death of Thomas J. Owings, age 71 (difficult to read), father of the suicide. The father died of chronic heart disability at his home on Sanders Route Four.
Oscar Owings, who returned from a veterans' hospital at Danville a few months ago became involved in a minor dispute with members of his family concerning funeral arrangements for his father. "I guess my opinion is not wanted around here." He declared, and left.
"I'm afraid he'll go home and kill himself," Mrs. Amanda Owings, aged mother of the suicide is quoted as saying, as she watched her son depart, never to see him alive again.
Deputy sheriffs received a call from the Mt. Ebal neighborhood at 4:30 (difficult to read) Tuesday afternoon from neighbors of Oscar Owings. The frantic report was that the Owings home was on fire and that there was a man inside the place lying on the floor.
The officers drove to the scene at top speed and found all of the doors of the Owings home locked. They forced an entrance to the place where Owings had been living with an uncle since his estrangement from his family and found Owings lying on the floor by his 16 gauge shotgun.
Owings, clad only in his underwear and shoes, was lying on his back. The charge from the shotgun had torn through Owings' bare breast just above the heart ripping away his left lung. The shot apparently had been fired while Owings pressed the muzzle of the single-barreled gun against his body.
Realizing at a glance that they could do nothing for Owings, the officers concentrated their immediate efforts on extinguishing the flames that threatened to destroy the house. Before killing himself, Owings had set fire to each of the four rooms of the dwelling. He had kindled a pile of stove wood in the kitchen; had set fire to a bed in another room; a davenport in another room, and in the fourth room had ignited a pile of rags.
One of the deputies returned to Bloomington and summoned Dr. Hugh S. Ramsey, county coroner, who returned a verdict of suicide and ordered the death gun turned over to a brother of the deceased.
Deputies express the belief that kerosene had been used to start the four fires in the house. The fires had been held in check by neighbors who threw buckets of water on the flames and the house was saved.
The Allen Funeral Home, that only three hours previously had dispatched a funeral coach for the body of Thomas Owings, father of the suicide, was called to bring the body of the younger Owings to Bloomington and to arrange funeral plans.
Oscar Luther Owings is survived by the mother, the widow, Mrs. Darrell Owings, three daughters, Beulah, Bernice and Sarah Sue; two sons, Burtle and Boyd; three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Bartlett and Mrs. Oren Walters, both of Monroe County, and Mrs. Landen Martin of Indianapolis. Also surviving is a brother, Frank Owings, of this county.
The deceased was a member of the V. F. W. and the D. A. V. Funeral services will be held this Friday forenoon at 10:30 at the Mt. Ebal Church under the direction of the Rev. John Hays. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Six members of the V. F. W. will serve as pallbearers and the V. F. W. bugle and firing squad will conduct special burial rites.
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Early Death Records Database, www.rootsweb.com: Name: Owings, Oscar Luther / Date: 4 Apr 1939 / Age: 43 / Book/Page/Record: (Blank) / County: Monroe / State: IN / Cemetery: Mt Ebal / More Info: (Blank)
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