Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burlingame, Edmund G. 1933
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Ionia County News – 20 April 1933
IONIA BARBER FOUND DEAD IN PARKED AUTO

Edmund G. Burlingame Commits Suicide Tuesday A. M.

Funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for Edmund G. 
Burlingame, 45, Ionia barber, who committed suicide Tuesday night.  The 
services will take place from the home on Jones Street and will be conducted 
by Rev. F. J. Fitch, pastor of the Baptist church.  Interment will be in the 
Highland Park cemetery.  Burlingame was found dead Wednesday morning on a side 
road on the outskirts of the city.  He drove there Tuesday evening in his 
enclosed Pontiac automobile, ran a piece of vacuum cleaner hose into his 
machine from the exhaust, left the engine running and asphyxiated himself.

George Ostrander, living nearby, and several members of his family observed 
the car during the evening.  They told Sheriff Herbert Ross that some of them 
had first noticed the machine about 9 pm Tuesday when they passed by and again 
about 10 o’clock.  They had not gone near it, however, believing that the 
machine was occupied by spooners.  Shortly after daybreak the next morning, 
Ostrander saw the car still there and accompanied by Samuel Ostrander, 
investigated. T They found Burlingame slumped forward and rigid in the 
machine.  He had been dead for more than eight hours.

Sheriff Ross was called and accompanied by Coroner Orin Stone removed the body 
to the city.  The coroner found that Burlingame had been despondent over the 
death late in March of a favorite son, Robert, six years old.  He decided 
there was no reason for an inquest.  Burlingame had been a barber in the city 
for a number of years and some time ago bough control of the shop on the east 
side of Steele Street between Main and Washington.

He leaves a widow, Birdie; an aged mother, Miss Ella Burlingame; two children, 
Richard, five and Shirley, three; and five sisters, Mrs. Jacob Green, of 
Arcadia; Mrs. Doctor Adams, of Thompsonville; Mrs. Clay Lewis, of Saginaw; 
Mrs. Carl Maxwell, of Lansing, and Mrs. Ernest Rowe, of a prominent Grand 
Rapids family.  The funeral services will be in charge of the Boynton 
Undertaking establishment.




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