Newspaper clipping on John Dean's death, Essexville, Bay County, Michigan



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 Man Is Found Dead in Auto
 John Dean Death Is Ruled Suicide
 
        John R. Dean, 55-year-old roofing and siding contractor, was found dead
 in his car on Aetna Portland Cement Co., property last night at 11:25
 o'clock by Essexville Police Chief Edward Kaake.
        Coroner Darl E. Penzien ruled death, caused by carbon monoxide, was
 suicide.
        When Kaake found the body, the car was filled with monoxide fumes from
 a tube extending through the trunk from the car's exhaust pipe.  Kaake
 noticed the car as he was on routine patrol on Weadock road south of the
 Saginaw Bay Yacht Club.  The motor was running.
        C.J. Hages, an Aatna employe, said that he noticed the car park around
 9 o'clock but thought nothing more about it. 
        Dean's family said that he had been despondent because of ill health. 
 He had been away from home for two days.  He lived at 511 South Barclay
 avenue.
        Dean was born in Lapeer county near Brown City on June 1, 1900. He
 married the former Mary Brown in Brown City on April 12, 1922.  He had
 lived in Bay City for 18 years. 
        He is survived by his widow, three sons, Jay and Jack, of Bay City, and
 William, serving in the Navy at Newport, R.I.; two daughters, Mrs.
 Lenora Meyer and Mrs. Thelma Burke, both of Bay City; six grandchildren;
 two brothers, Ray Dean of Port Huron, and Grant Dean of Cadillac; and
 two sisters, Mrs. Claude Smith of Lapeer, and Mrs. Hilmer Poth of Brown
 City.  
        The body is at the Vallender and Penzien chapel.  Funeral arrangements
 are incomplete.
 
         
 
 Found in The Bay City Times 9/8/1955

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