Coos County OR Archives News.....MRS. E.O. CLINTON BURIED AT NORWAY YESTERDAY April 23, 1940
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The Coquille Valley Sentinel April 23, 1940
The Coquille Valley Sentinel
April 23, 1940

MRS. E.O. CLINTON BURIED AT NORWAY YESTERDAY
Took Own Life At Her Home Here Shortly After Noon Monday

  Funeral services were conducted at Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries in Myrtle Point 
aat 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by Rev. A.A. Baker, for Mrs. E.O. 
Clinton, who died at her home just above the Smith plant on the highway Monday 
afternoon. Interment was in the Norway Cemetery.
  No reason is known for her act of drinking a bottle of Lysol., which resulted 
in her death. She was found lying on the bed, gasping for breath, by Ray 
Clinton's daughter shortly after noon. When she asked the victims four-year old 
son what his mother had done he muttered something and the girl asked, "Do you 
mean Lysol?" and he said, "yes," that she got it from the medicine cabinet 
where a bottle was found on the floor. Dr. Richmond was at once summoned but 
the effect of the poison had rendered Mrs. Clinton unconscious and she was 
barely alive when he arrived.
  Apparently in the best of spirits about 11 o'clock that morning when she was 
laughing and joking with friends, what may have prompted the fatal act will 
never be known.
   Born Velma Odra Barklow, Feb. 20, 1915, at Gravelford, she was the daughter 
of  Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Barklow, of Myrtle Point, and a granddaughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. J.D. Barklow, pioneer residents of the valley.
  Besides her husband and son and parents, she is survived by brothers and 
sisters in Myrtle Point.



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