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THE LIMA NEWS Poge 4
Friday, June 20, 1952
SPENCERVILLE - Nathan J
Barnes, 62, employee of a Lima
plant, stabbed himself to death
with a butcher knife Thursday
night in his home at nearby Conant.
Barnes died at about 11 p. m.
Thursday of the self-inflicted
wound, according to Dr. T. J. Talbott,
Allen-co coroner. He returned
a verdict of suicide.
Barnes took a butcher knife from
the kitchen of his home, locked
himself in the bathroom and
plunged the knife into his heart,
the coroner was told.
He was born in Rising Sun and had
lived in Conant for the last 15 years.
He was employed in the
boiler shop of the Baldwin-Lima-
Hamilton Corp. An Army veteran,
he was a member of Lima's Edward
J. Veascy post. No. 275, Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
Surviving are his widow, Lela
three daughters, Mrs. Edwin Witherow,
Spencerville; Mrs. Richard
Brownell, 736 Weadock-av, Lima
and Mrs. Ray Thomas, 703 Fordav,
Lima; two brothers, Harry
Barnes, San Francisco, and Bert
Barnes, Cairo; his stepmother,
Mrs. Emma Barnes, Benton Ridge,
O., and eight grandchildren.
Services are being completed at
the C. B. Miller and Son funeral
home, Spencerville.
Sandusky Register November 8 1957 Sandusky Ohio
RALPH C. BRUNING
PORT CLINTON, Nov. 8 -
Ralph C. (Pete) Bruning, 74,
R. D. 2, Perryview, died at his
residence this morning. He was
born in Rising Sun in 1883.
Surviving are his wife, Marie,
and a brother, Rolle of Toledo.
Services will be held Monday at
2 p. m. at the Neidecker-LeVeck-
Eberle Funeral Home in Port
Clinton with the Rev. Harry-
Holzapfel officiating; Burial will
be in L a k e v i e w Cemetery.
Friends may call at t h e funeral
home after 4:30 p. m. Saturday
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