MONROE
Wabash, May 13 -

  Mrs. D. C. Drill of south Wabash learned Sunday of the death of her mother, Mrs. Lena Monroe, which occurred at her home in Muncie. Mrs. Monroe apparently fainted while at work in the kitchen of her apartment and fell against a gas range, opening a valve as she fell. Coroner Earl K. Parson said that death was probably due to the effects of gas. When police entered the gas filled apartment they found an unopened telegram on the floor which had been sent by a granddaughter, Miss Adele Drill in which she had wired on Mother’s Day that “there should be a day for grandmother’s too.”

   Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Grace Drill; one granddaughter, Miss Adele Drill, student at DePauw University and one grandson, James, student at Tri-State College.

Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, May 14, 1940.