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Parent Follows Young Man, Suicide, in Death Special To The Reporter-News CROSS PLAINS, June 13.— Double funeral rites will be held here at 10 o’clock Sunday morning for Mrs. I. M. Howard, 61, and her son, Robert E. Howard, 30, wife and son respectively of one of Calla han’s oldest practicing physicians from the standpoint of service. Critically ill for more than a week, Mrs. Howard died at 10:30 p. m. Friday, 30 hours after her son succumbed to a bullet wound. Despondent over the ill health of his mother, the young man walked into the yard at his home here Thursday morning and fired a bul let through his head. He lived until 4:30 p. m. Shortly before the shot was heard a nurse had told him Mrs. Howard would never revive from the coma into which she had fallen several days earlier. The funeral service will be held from the Baptist tabernacle, with Rev. B. G. Richbourg of Big Spring, officiating. Burial will be made in the Green Leaf cemetery in Brown wood at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Robert E. Howard, a writer, was the only child of Dr. and Mrs. How ard. The family had resided here for nearly thirty years. Among Howard's recent writings was a story, “A Man-Eating Jeop ard,” in the June issue of Cowboy Stories. His work has appeared in both American and English publi cations.
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Abilene Morning Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 14, 1936
Page 9
Full Page
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