OBIT: Raymond Hassler WORTHY, 1948, Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, PA

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FAMILY DEBATE ENDS IN YOUTH KILLING SELF

(Special to Altoona Mirror)

ORBISONIA, July 27. - Enraged by a family argument over a sister's quitting 
school to obtain employment, Raymond Hassler Worthy, aged 15, shot himself 
fatally Sunday night with a 22 caliber rifle.  He died in Mount Union while 
being [r]rushed to the J. C. Blair Memorial hospital at Huntingdon.
  Coroner E. Blair Shore of Huntingdon county termed death a suicide after an 
investigation made with Lester Hoover of the state police.
  While Roy E. Worthy, the father, was absent, the mother, Mrs. Eva (Varner) 
Worthy and several of her seven children at home, including Raymond, debated 
the question of whether a daughter, Mary, should quit school.  When sentiment 
apparently favored the girl's action, Raymond entered the house in a rage, 
slamming and hooking the screen door, the coroner reported.
  Reappearing with the rifle, Raymond told his mother, "Mum, I'm going to end 
it all."  She called Forrest Horrman, a neighbor, but before he could take 
the gun from the youth, Raymond fired a fatal shot into his abdomen, the 
coroner said.
  Raymond was born Feb. 20, 1933, in Cromwell township, near Orbisonia, and 
attended Orbisonia schools and the Pentecostal church.  He left school in the 
past year to obtain employment at the Elizabethtown, Pa., Masonic home as a 
waiter.
  He is survived by his parents, four sisters and eight brothers.

Altoona Mirror, Tuesday, July 27, 1948, page 15