Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Curtis, Wilbur 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net June 12, 2011, 10:06 pm Portland Observer, 1 Oct 1936 Ionia county had two cases of suicide in one day this week, the first occurring about 7:30 Tuesday morning when Wilbur Curtis, 87-year-old Easton township resident and prominent farmer, shot himself through the heart with a shotgun. The dead body was found in a corn field adjoining the Curtis home about an hour later by Mrs. Curtis and a neighbor. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time and it is thought he took his own life during a fit of despondency. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/curtis13166nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb