1892 - 1956
MAN, 63, SHOOTS SELF ON SUNDAY
HAWS F. AVEY, BROTHER OF
BRYANT MEN, TAKES OWN LIFE
Portland, Aug. 6—Haws F. Avey,
63, was found dead in a bedroom of his home four miles northwest of here
about 3:30 p.m. Sunday by his son, Robert V. Avey, who lives west of here.
He had shot himself with a .32 caliber revolver about 11 a.m. Sunday,
according to Dr. Stanley Hammond, Jay County Coroner, who investigated.
Mr. Avey was a retired farmer and a lifelong resident of Jackson
Township.
Surviving in addition to the son are two granddaughters;
four brothers, Taylor and Sell Avey, who reside west of Bryant; Elmer Avey,
east of Pennville, and Omer Avey, Molalla, Ore., and three sisters, Mrs.
Goldie Myers of Molalla, Mrs. Alice Myers, Oregon City, Ore., and Mrs. Lulu
Welch, Salem, Ore.
The body is here at the Williamson Funeral Home
where friends may call. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in
the funeral home, the Rev. A. N. Shockney of Fort Wayne officiating. Burial
will be in the IOOF Cemetery at Pennville.
Handwritten-Mon. Aug. 6, 1956
Adams County (IN) Historical Museum
1955 March-April 1958 Scrapbook, image 55
Transcribed by Janice
Vasilovski
Buried in IOOF Cemetery at Pennville aka Twin Hill Cemetery