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s,s.Grandchildren Sent Outside,Then State Man Shoots SelfBECKLEY - A retired coal miner Saturday afternoon told his grandchildren to go outside and mow the yard. Then he aimed a -3fr caliber pistol at his right temple and pulled the trigger.Two teen - age grandchildren rushed into the Oak Grove Addn. house when they heard the shot and found Hubert Wickline, 64, dead.line Hinkle of Hilltop; seven Jhalf - brothers, Harless, Arnold. Willie, Bob. Basil, Ernest and other Meadows, all of Hinton; a half - sister, Mrs. Ethel Buck-iand of Hinton; and 10 grandchildren.The body is at Rose and Ques-enberry Funeral Home in Beck-ley-County Coroner S. A. Ford ruled the death was a suicide. Wickline retired four years ago because of ill health.He was a member of the Christian Church.Surviving are bis wife, Sylvia; four sons, Donald, at home, Glenn of Monroe, Ore., Dean of Detroit, Mich, and Muriel of Crab Orchard; two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Cooper of Midway and Mrs. Made*Wood Girl:dztw'M[Dl'erahaGiofchWins Top Drama Prizei2jtis!M'BiMTwo days of one-act plays end- Si ed Saturday afternoon at the re United Fuel Gas Co. auditorium;to | with Mary Anne Lindsey of Par-‘slt; kersburg winning the top award in ■
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Gazette Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Apr 09, 1961
Page 90
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