Obit for Mrs. Earl Harrison - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source: The Kingfisher Free Press, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Monday, 
May 17, 1943.


Mrs. Earl HARRISON Dies By Drowning.


Mrs. Earl HARRISON, Kingfisher county farm woman, was drowned in 
a shallow pond about 4 p.m. Saturday on the W.D. GERBER farm, 
about five miles north of Kingfisher.

C.C. "Joe" FISHER, Kingfisher county sheriff, and Perry DAVIS, 
undersheriff, who were called to the farm, report that it was 
evident the woman took her own life by drowning. Mrs. HARRISON 
had been in ill health for some time and was staying with her 
sister, Mrs. W.D. GERBER, who found Mrs. HARRISON'S body lying 
face down in about 18 inches of water in the shallow farm pond. 
Sheriff FISHER said his investigation indicated that Mrs. HARRISON 
had removed her shoes and her spectacles and laid them by the said 
[sic?] of the pond before walking out in the water to lie face down 
in the pool.

Upon finding the body of her sister in the water, Mrs. GERBER 
succeeded in pulling Mrs. HARRISON out of the pond far enough 
to get her face above water. She then ran to her farm home and 
called for assistance over the telephone. Among the neighbors 
who came to her assistance was James PERDUE, who worked for some 
time attempting to revive Mrs. HARRISON by artificial respiration. 
Physicians from Dover and Kingfisher were called, and examination 
indicated that Mrs. HARRISON was dead.

Local survivors of Mrs. HARRISON are her husband, who was in the 
eastern part of the state on business; two sons, Walter and Hobert; 
two brothers, Rudolph and John KREMKE; and three sisters, Mrs. 
Edward HARRISON, Mrs. W.D. GERBER, and Mrs. Paul BRISCOE.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist -
Congregational church in Kingfisher, with Rev. V.W. RUSSELL 
officiating. Arrangements are in charge of the BRACKEN funeral home.