Frederick-Carroll County MD Archives Obituaries.....Garner, Phoebe Alice Shank April 4, 1952
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The Frederick Post, Frederick, Maryland, Saturday, April 5, 1952
Page 13, column 3

ELDERLY WOMAN KILLS HERSELF

Aged Resident of Near Taneytown Victim of Shotgun

  An elderly Carroll county woman took her life early Friday with a shotgun 
round in the head.
  Mrs. Phoebe Alice Garner, 75, inflicted the fatal shot about 6:30 a.m. in the 
living room of her home near Taneytown, while her husband, Jerry J. Garner, is 
reported to have been engaged in chores outside the house.
  Dr. James T. Marsh, deputy county medical examiner, has issued a certificate 
of suicide.  No definite reason for the act has been given, but she is 
understood to have been in ill health for the past six weeks.
  Mrs. Garner was born in Frederick county, a daughter of the late Otho 
Augustus and Elizabeth Smith Shank.  Her first husband, John Crouse, died many 
years ago.  She was a member of Trinity Lutheran church, Taneytown, and 
formerly belonged to the Bible Class and Missionary Society.
  Surviving in addition to her husband, are two brothers and a sister, Clarence 
Shank, Baltimore, John Shank, Florida, and Mrs. Laura Newcomer, Taneytown.
  Private funeral services will be conducted at the funeral home in Taneytown 
Sunday afternoon at one o’clock.  Rev. Glenn L. Stahl her pastor will 
officiate.  Interment in the Taneytown Lutheran church cemetery.  C. O. Fuss 
and Son, funeral directors.


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