Is anyone out there volunteering to do obit lookups? I
know this is a stretch because I don't even have her
exact death date. I'm looking for an obituary for
Evelyn Clear-Whipple. She was born March 20, 1903, and
died in Indianapolis in March of 1973. She was the
daughter of Calvin and Clara (Hurd) Clear and was born
in Peru in Miami County. When she was 4 years old her
father committed suicide and I just located her in the
Social Security death index.
Front Page, Peru Evening Journal, Friday, November 15,
1907
CALVIN CLEAR SHOOTS SELF - Wife Can Give No Motive for
Suicide - HE WAS A DELIVERY MAN - He Works Until
Noon-Goes Up Street and Buys a Gun and Ends His Life.
Despondent for some unknown reason, and wanting to end
all, Calvin Clear, aged twenty-nine years and married,
son of Samuel Clear, went into a bed room at his home
Friday, and after closing the door, fired a shot into
his left breast, dying almost instantly.
His wife can give no motive for the suicide and claims
there was no family trouble, although it is said he
had been drinking.
He had been employed as deliveryman at the White
department store on west Main street for quite a
while, and worked Friday morning as usual. At noon he
went home to dinner, and on entering the house he
remarked to his wife that he would end all and that he
would not live long. She did not imagine that he meant
it, and was horrified to hear the report of the
revolver after he had entered the room. A call was
sent for a doctor, but the man had died almost
instantly. The Journal was informed at White's store
that he had said nothing of his intention to commit
suicide, and Mr. White was greatly surprised when he
learned of the fact.
The fact that he purchased a new revolver in one of
the stores up town and took it home with him at noon
is evidence that his act was deliberate. His widow
claims that she had not seen him have a gun in six
months. Besides a widow, three small children, one boy
and two girls, a mother and father and several sisters
and brothers are left to mourn his sad death. The
funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
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