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Birth |
20 Jul 1900 |
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
30 Dec 1962 |
, Callaway, Missouri, USA |
Cause: suicide |
Obituary |
31 Dec 1962 |
Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA |
Daily Sun-Gazette |
- Tom Day Found Fatally Wounded Near His Home
Tom Day, Route 3, was found dead of a gunshot wound yesterday morning on the farm of Kenneth Fry, a neighbor, in the Herring School community.
Sheriff W.A. Dawson said Day was found clutching a 20-gauge shotgun in his right hand. He had a wound in the upper front portion of his head.
Coroner Denzil Browning reports that an inquest will be held but no date has yet been set. Members of the coroner's jury viewed the body this morning. The jury members are Ruben Hughes, Ralph Dawson, O.H. Hamilton, W.A. Youse, Ernest McDonald and Harry Gilpin.
The boy is at the Browning Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mr. Day was born on July 20, 1900, in Des Moines, Iowa, son of Robert and Susan Daub Day. He had been employed at Harbison-Walker Refractories here for the past 16 years.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Robert (Chrystena) Witt, Fulton, Mrs. Oveta Ivy, Redondo Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Gary (Loreta) Leeper, Fulton; two sons, Norman R. Day, Fulton, and Gerald Loy Day, Mexico, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Luther Gipson, Modesta, Calif., and Mrs. Odie Grady, Des Moines; and seven grandchildren.
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Buried |
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Callaway, Missouri, USA |
Person ID |
I11822 |
Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri |
Last Modified |
10 Jan 2009 |
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Children |
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Last Modified |
10 Jan 2009 |
Family ID |
F14348148 |
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Headstones |
| Tom Day Tom Day, July 20, 1900 - Dec 30, 1962 Tom Day was a son of Robert Day and Susan Daub. He was originally from Iowa. |
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- son of Robert Day and Susan Daub
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Event
| Birth - 20 Jul 1900 - Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA |
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| Died - Cause: suicide - 30 Dec 1962 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA |
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| Obituary - Daily Sun-Gazette - 31 Dec 1962 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA |
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| Buried - - Mount Carmel Cemetery, Callaway, Missouri, USA |
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