OBIT:
The death of Mrs. Nora Etta Cahoon Spurling in Cle Elum Thursday afternoon was pronounced suicide by Coroner W. R. Cole who, with Sheriff Bob Dorsey, was called to investigate after her body was found on the floor of the front room of her home by a son, Marcus Spurling at about 4:20 p.m.
Marcus Spurling was also the last person to see his mother alive at about 1:45 p.m. when he left the house to get something to eat, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was shot through the left breast by a bullet from a .38 revolver which passed entirely through her body and was found imbedded in the wall of the room behind the rocking chair in which she apparently was seated when the shot was fired. Her body slumped to the floor in front of the chair. Death was held to have been instantaneous.
Mrs. Spurling had suffered from a heart affliction for some time and had been despondent because of her health, Cole said. Her husband, Virgil Spurling, died several years ago.
She lived with her two sons, Marcus and John Spurling and a daughter, Lorene Spurling. She had two other daughters not Cle Elem residents. The gun was the property of her son, John, who kept it unloaded in his room upstairs. Only a short time before had refused to show his mother how to load the weapon, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was born in Ellensburg, February 19, 1886. Services for her will be held in the Coleman Funeral Chapel at Cle Elum Monday, February 2 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Arthur Stott officiating. Burial will be Laurel Hill Cemetery, Cle Elum.
Ellensburg Daily Record, January 30, 1953
The death of Mrs. Nora Etta Cahoon Spurling in Cle Elum Thursday afternoon was pronounced suicide by Coroner W. R. Cole who, with Sheriff Bob Dorsey, was called to investigate after her body was found on the floor of the front room of her home by a son, Marcus Spurling at about 4:20 p.m.
Marcus Spurling was also the last person to see his mother alive at about 1:45 p.m. when he left the house to get something to eat, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was shot through the left breast by a bullet from a .38 revolver which passed entirely through her body and was found imbedded in the wall of the room behind the rocking chair in which she apparently was seated when the shot was fired. Her body slumped to the floor in front of the chair. Death was held to have been instantaneous.
Mrs. Spurling had suffered from a heart affliction for some time and had been despondent because of her health, Cole said. Her husband, Virgil Spurling, died several years ago.
She lived with her two sons, Marcus and John Spurling and a daughter, Lorene Spurling. She had two other daughters not Cle Elem residents. The gun was the property of her son, John, who kept it unloaded in his room upstairs. Only a short time before had refused to show his mother how to load the weapon, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was born in Ellensburg, February 19, 1886. Services for her will be held in the Coleman Funeral Chapel at Cle Elum Monday, February 2 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Arthur Stott officiating. Burial will be Laurel Hill Cemetery, Cle Elum.
Ellensburg Daily Record, January 30, 1953
OBIT:
The death of Mrs. Nora Etta Cahoon Spurling in Cle Elum Thursday afternoon was pronounced suicide by Coroner W. R. Cole who, with Sheriff Bob Dorsey, was called to investigate after her body was found on the floor of the front room of her home by a son, Marcus Spurling at about 4:20 p.m.
Marcus Spurling was also the last person to see his mother alive at about 1:45 p.m. when he left the house to get something to eat, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was shot through the left breast by a bullet from a .38 revolver which passed entirely through her body and was found imbedded in the wall of the room behind the rocking chair in which she apparently was seated when the shot was fired. Her body slumped to the floor in front of the chair. Death was held to have been instantaneous.
Mrs. Spurling had suffered from a heart affliction for some time and had been despondent because of her health, Cole said. Her husband, Virgil Spurling, died several years ago.
She lived with her two sons, Marcus and John Spurling and a daughter, Lorene Spurling. She had two other daughters not Cle Elem residents. The gun was the property of her son, John, who kept it unloaded in his room upstairs. Only a short time before had refused to show his mother how to load the weapon, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was born in Ellensburg, February 19, 1886. Services for her will be held in the Coleman Funeral Chapel at Cle Elum Monday, February 2 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Arthur Stott officiating. Burial will be Laurel Hill Cemetery, Cle Elum.
Ellensburg Daily Record, January 30, 1953
The death of Mrs. Nora Etta Cahoon Spurling in Cle Elum Thursday afternoon was pronounced suicide by Coroner W. R. Cole who, with Sheriff Bob Dorsey, was called to investigate after her body was found on the floor of the front room of her home by a son, Marcus Spurling at about 4:20 p.m.
Marcus Spurling was also the last person to see his mother alive at about 1:45 p.m. when he left the house to get something to eat, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was shot through the left breast by a bullet from a .38 revolver which passed entirely through her body and was found imbedded in the wall of the room behind the rocking chair in which she apparently was seated when the shot was fired. Her body slumped to the floor in front of the chair. Death was held to have been instantaneous.
Mrs. Spurling had suffered from a heart affliction for some time and had been despondent because of her health, Cole said. Her husband, Virgil Spurling, died several years ago.
She lived with her two sons, Marcus and John Spurling and a daughter, Lorene Spurling. She had two other daughters not Cle Elem residents. The gun was the property of her son, John, who kept it unloaded in his room upstairs. Only a short time before had refused to show his mother how to load the weapon, he told Cole.
Mrs. Spurling was born in Ellensburg, February 19, 1886. Services for her will be held in the Coleman Funeral Chapel at Cle Elum Monday, February 2 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Arthur Stott officiating. Burial will be Laurel Hill Cemetery, Cle Elum.
Ellensburg Daily Record, January 30, 1953
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