NEWSPAPERS: Suicide of Otis McCallister, Grant's Pass, Josephine, County, Oregon 

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Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 17 Dec 1936, p. 3

Shan Creek Man Takes Own Life

Grant's Pass, Dec. 17 - (Spl.) - Otis McCallister, about 65, died
about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday of a gunshot wound in his heart
inflected, officers said, by his own hand at his home near the
Riverbanks farm in the Shan creek district. A resident of
Josephine county all his life, he had been in critically failing
health for some time.

Death was almost instant, said Sheriff E. H. Lister, in quoting
Dr. W. A. Moser. The two men went to the scene when a call was
received at the sheriff's office from Mrs. Neely, neighbor of the
McCallisters.

The act occurred in an upstairs room of the McCallister home. A
30-30 rifle was near the body.

Mrs. McCallister was downstairs at the time, said Sheriff Lister.
She heart the shot and ran upstairs. Seeing what had happened,
she hurried to the Neely home to have word sent to Grant's Pass. 

Mr. McCallister is survived by his widow, Mrs. Zettie
McCallister; three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Annie Murray of
Grant's Pass, Mrs. Ollie Odin of Wimer, Mrs. Ella Young of Kerby,
Alonza and George McCallister of Grant's Pass.